Recommended Video Card Upgrade for a Three Year Old Rig

[endfire79]

Good luck Gus, hope it works out.  I personally wait a long time before updating a total rig (to benefit from deals or price cuts).  Just don't have as much spare time anymore at the moment.

My rig is from 2009/2010 tech, but my main bottleneck was the hard drive for read/writes (getting an SSD soon) and the RAM (the mobo can only take 8 GB max). I recently updated the RAM to 8 from 4GB, and that worked enough for me (although right now I'm not using high end vehicle simulation at home, otherwise I'd get a new motherboard and go the 12GB+ RAM  route).

The PSU has enough juice for what I need to throw at it at 750W

My MSI GTX460 (middle of road card is the way I go) is holding up nicely, and I would personally not spend more than $190 on my next future GPU update (I'm a cheapo).  I might change my mind if I ever start gaming on a 42" screen though.

[Gusington]

Yeah I agree...the card mentioned above at 369.00 US is too high for me.

[GDS_Starfury]

Is it on the top shelf?

[Shelldrake]

My GTX 560 Ti/AMD X4 955 combo is still soldiering on. Sooner or later I will upgrade but for now it meets my strategy gaming needs and even manages some eye candy with shooters and flight sims.   :)

[endfire79]

I went the budget route and decided to update my MSI GTX 460 with a PNY GTX 750 TI (I tend to aim for the budget cards, ).  The PNY doesn't require another 6 pin power connection from the mainboard, it takes the power straight from the PCI-E slot.  The noise rating is also quite low from what I've read.  I'll let you know how it fares once it's delivered.