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    Quote Originally Posted by wayninja View Post
    Unless you are using crossfire/SLI, I'm not sure what the benefit of running both is, unless you have multiple monitors or something.
    It's an asus p6x58d/e and it said crossfire enabled on the mobo advert but idk...

    https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/
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    I am running 2 monitors and the 1050 card only has 1 dvi slot, so it actually is an issue for that reason
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawgdriver View Post
    It's an asus p6x58d/e and it said crossfire enabled on the mobo advert but idk...

    https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6X58DE/
    My statement was generic. Crossfire is Radeon's technology for linking 2 cards, and SLI is Nvidia's. I don't think you can mix card types like this.

    It's fine to run 2 monitors, if that's what you need it for, but you won't see performance benefit to doing so. If anything, you are just using more juice/causing more heat.

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    Just order this and a few supportive parts for it and you will be set.

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/357836/nv...-card-costs-3k

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    Just order this and a few supportive parts for it and you will be set.

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/357836/nv...-card-costs-3k
    that's a lot of graphics card
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawgdriver View Post
    It's been a long time since I built my system, thinking about replacing the graphics card. There's one on amazon for $150 or so, looks like the solution for my laggy ass games. Don't think I need to bump the RAM (at 6gb right now) or CPU.

    There you have it.
    I know either Amazon or New Egg has a Geforce GTX 1060 for around $200. It's the desktop version of the card I have in my laptop and my laptop runs pretty much everything I throw at it. I can play most new games on highest settings and get between 60-70 FPS at all times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freyaka View Post
    I know either Amazon or New Egg has a Geforce GTX 1060 for around $200. It's the desktop version of the card I have in my laptop and my laptop runs pretty much everything I throw at it. I can play most new games on highest settings and get between 60-70 FPS at all times.
    I saw a 1060 for 225, but that's too much money to spend on kid's stuff. I'm a grown man.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawgdriver View Post
    I saw a 1060 for 225, but that's too much money to spend on kid's stuff. I'm a grown man.
    Uh... we've seen some of your late night posts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawgdriver View Post
    I saw a 1060 for 225, but that's too much money to spend on kid's stuff. I'm a grown man.
    You spend a little more now, you'll have a longer gap between now and when you need to spend again the next time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freyaka View Post
    You spend a little more now, you'll have a longer gap between now and when you need to spend again the next time.
    Part of the problem is not being sure that a graphics card alone is a solution. Perhaps the problem was in l1/l2 cache, ram, or some other bottleneck/temp issue/etc... Hated to spend so much without a better diagnosis.

    It turns out a 1050 and 6gig of ram are plenty for my situation. When my law practice takes off and I'm a millionaire I'll buy Rick's card the same day I buy that Tesla that extracts fillings.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawgdriver View Post
    Part of the problem is not being sure that a graphics card alone is a solution. Perhaps the problem was in l1/l2 cache, ram, or some other bottleneck/temp issue/etc... Hated to spend so much without a better diagnosis.

    It turns out a 1050 and 6gig of ram are plenty for my situation. When my law practice takes off and I'm a millionaire I'll buy Rick's card the same day I buy that Tesla that extracts fillings.
    I was using a small form factor desktop to run Cities Skylines and it worked great as is until I tried using a ton of mods and it came crashing to a halt. I am leaning towards getting a low profile GTX1050 Ti but dunno if I want to spend money on a computer when I look at the thing maybe once every couple of months.


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    My son wants an upgraded video card and memory for his desktop for Christmas. He plays a lot of games online with friends (Steam) and his computer lags a bit.

    How can I figure out what cards and memory are compatible? His computer is approx. 2-3 years old and I got it from Cybertron, which has since been sold/merged with another company.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BroncoJoe View Post
    My son wants an upgraded video card and memory for his desktop for Christmas. He plays a lot of games online with friends (Steam) and his computer lags a bit.

    How can I figure out what cards and memory are compatible? His computer is approx. 2-3 years old and I got it from Cybertron, which has since been sold/merged with another company.
    Find out what motherboard you have and post it in this thread.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=what...hrome&ie=UTF-8
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    Quote Originally Posted by BroncoJoe View Post
    My son wants an upgraded video card and memory for his desktop for Christmas. He plays a lot of games online with friends (Steam) and his computer lags a bit.

    How can I figure out what cards and memory are compatible? His computer is approx. 2-3 years old and I got it from Cybertron, which has since been sold/merged with another company.
    The best way is to find documentation on your motherboard. That will lead to bus speed/slot types so you can determine what the mobo can handle. That's not the only consideration though. Graphics cards (good ones anyway) are juice hogs, so you need to makes sure the powersupply can handle it. There's online calculators for estimating wattage based on your hardware. Then there's little stuff that can be forgotten (such as buying a graphics card only to realize that your monitor's connection type is different or the maximum resolution is a bottleneck).

    If you can post some specs/makes/models, I (and others) may be able to at least point you in the right direction.

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    Thanks, guys. I'll do this later tonight and post the info.

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