Posted April 14, 2019
It skips frames and the fps is doing the limbo but now I'll save on electricity.
In other words I screwed up by not doing adequate research, I just went with a recommendation on a bottleneck calculator website.
It looked good at first glance: twice the video ram, more recent model, higher model number, the card I removed is not sold anymore.
I was not expecting a fantastic result since it cost me $100 new but I don't think my old one cost much more and I got it several years ago so I thought inflation and better tech at a lower price meant I was getting a better card for cheap.
I just would have had to enter old card vs new card in google and I would have saved myself $100. I'm not going to send it back though, I've always been fearful of trying to overclock my video card but with this one I do not really care so I might do some tests to see what kind of improvement OC can do, or I'll simply put my old card back in and keep this one as a spare just in case my old card goes kaput.
Remember kids: do your homework before trying to upgrade.
And so people who know better can laugh at me:
old card: GTX 650 1GB DDR 5
new card GT 710 2GB DDR 3
MY CPU is a Intel CORE 2 Quad CPU Q8300 2.5 GHz
I need a whole new computer but I thought $100 was a low price to get something a little better until then.
In other words I screwed up by not doing adequate research, I just went with a recommendation on a bottleneck calculator website.
It looked good at first glance: twice the video ram, more recent model, higher model number, the card I removed is not sold anymore.
I was not expecting a fantastic result since it cost me $100 new but I don't think my old one cost much more and I got it several years ago so I thought inflation and better tech at a lower price meant I was getting a better card for cheap.
I just would have had to enter old card vs new card in google and I would have saved myself $100. I'm not going to send it back though, I've always been fearful of trying to overclock my video card but with this one I do not really care so I might do some tests to see what kind of improvement OC can do, or I'll simply put my old card back in and keep this one as a spare just in case my old card goes kaput.
Remember kids: do your homework before trying to upgrade.
And so people who know better can laugh at me:
old card: GTX 650 1GB DDR 5
new card GT 710 2GB DDR 3
MY CPU is a Intel CORE 2 Quad CPU Q8300 2.5 GHz
I need a whole new computer but I thought $100 was a low price to get something a little better until then.