Vacuous Luddite
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Hello everyone,
I want to upgrade my graphics card and I am unsure if I need to upgrade the power supply. I am not even sure how to calculate the power usage of my hardware. Anyway I want to get either a Radeon R9 290X or a geforce 970. Which one would be a better card overall? If I need a PSU what is a good recommendation? What would be a good motherboard to upgrade to as well?
As far as power supply here is my current comp specs:
Pre built Gateway fx6860-ur20p
Mobo- acer ip isb-vr
RAM - 8 gig ddr3 1333
CPU - i7 2600 @ 3.4 gig
GPU - Radeon 6750
HDD - 1.2 TB and 500 GB
PSU - FSP Group - 450 watt (fsp450-60EP)
Thanks in advance.
I want to upgrade my graphics card and I am unsure if I need to upgrade the power supply. I am not even sure how to calculate the power usage of my hardware. Anyway I want to get either a Radeon R9 290X or a geforce 970. Which one would be a better card overall? If I need a PSU what is a good recommendation? What would be a good motherboard to upgrade to as well?
As far as power supply here is my current comp specs:
Pre built Gateway fx6860-ur20p
Mobo- acer ip isb-vr
RAM - 8 gig ddr3 1333
CPU - i7 2600 @ 3.4 gig
GPU - Radeon 6750
HDD - 1.2 TB and 500 GB
PSU - FSP Group - 450 watt (fsp450-60EP)
Thanks in advance.