http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007A44T42/ref=ox_ya_os_product http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0092ML0OC/ref=ox_ya_os_product Finally pulled the trigger on upgrading my video card and power supply. Been doing some research and am hoping I made a good choice with these. Prob should have asked before purchase, but I didnt think of it, so any feedback would be appreciated.
7770 is a solid card, ought to play all modern games fine as long as you aren't running at absurd resolution with all the graphical detail cranked to max. Congrats on your new toy!
There's more about my trouble with a 7850 here . I actually ended going through two of them both of them had similar problems. While trying to figure out what was the problem I did a lot of searching, which turned up huge of amount of people having problems with flickering and artifacts. There's either something seriously wrong with the drivers (which haven't been fixed for several months) or there is a hardware fault which might be caused by amd running things too close too the edge. The image quality doesn't seem to be as good as well. I have an idea Amd may be cheating to get better fps scores in benchmarks. Funnily enough, image quality was the reason I switched to ATI from Nvidia many years ago.
Pretty much the games Ill play the most are WoW, and things like borderlands 2 civ 5 and other strat games and xcom, none of the really high powered FPS games.
Something Awful runs a good crowdsourced thread on what's the best to buy in hardware upgrades from a price/performance standpoint. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3458091
Well some good news is that for a budget system MMO champ listed my card as the best buy for it in their post on what parts to build a computer with.
Passmark actually gives that card the highest performance per dollar right now: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_value.html So that was probably a good buy. I don't know about Corsair PSUs, I probably would have went with Antec Earthwatts 650W for that price.
I've used several Corsair PSUs and have no problems with them. They tend to be pretty quiet and I've never had one go bad in all the years I've used them.
