Upgrading my video card

[AdlerTakamura]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post it, but I've recently experienced some problems with my video crashing while playing the game (tried upgrading drivers and all), so just decided to get a new video card.

These are my current PC specs:


I want to upgrade to a video card that can work with my current setup, but also want to make it compatible with future upgrades I'm planning, so gotta consider that.

I've gotten these 2 reccomendations:

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-D...eForce+GTX+960

http://www.amazon.com/GeForce-750Ti-...rce+GTX+750+Ti

Would this be a good idea? I've been told I need a PCI Express, not sure if I should use it or a different type. I'm interested in it having good cooling system, at least 2 fans, cause I live in a hot place.

Finally, this is my case, though I guess it shouldn't be a problem:
http://gaming.coolermaster.com/en/pr...ases/enforcer/

Any experts on this? thanks a lot!

[MiniTofu]

You're fine, I would pick GTX 960 not because of bigger number. It has a better features MFAA, VGX Ligntning supports etc. H.265 encoding.

Don't have to worry a single bit about PCI or not, your motherboard is really in this era (generation) what we all use by standard now.

[KisaiTenshi]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post it, but I've recently experienced some problems with my video crashing while playing the game (tried upgrading drivers and all), so just decided to get a new video card.

These are my current PC specs:


I want to upgrade to a video card that can work with my current setup, but also want to make it compatible with future upgrades I'm planning, so gotta consider that.

I've gotten these 2 reccomendations:

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-D...eForce+GTX+960

http://www.amazon.com/GeForce-750Ti-...rce+GTX+750+Ti

Would this be a good idea? I've been told I need a PCI Express, not sure if I should use it or a different type. I'm interested in it having good cooling system, at least 2 fans, cause I live in a hot place.

Finally, this is my case, though I guess it shouldn't be a problem:
http://gaming.coolermaster.com/en/pr...ases/enforcer/

Any experts on this? thanks a lot!

If you have money to burn, go up to the GTX 760 at least. The 960 would be roughly on par with it.

How to read nVIDIA cards:
The first digit (eg 5,6,7,9) is the "generation", and the second digit is the "class", of which a 6 is probably where you want to be, as anything less will not give you 60fps at 1920x1080
If you have a 4K monitor, you will actually want the second most expensive card, and lots of existing games kinda screw up a lot with them. If you have a 23/24" monitor, you should be at 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 and a 760 or 960 should be good

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Take note how:
the
760 = 580
960 = 680 = 770
+/- 5/10% performance

The 750 is all the way down near the GTX 470 and 560Ti

And contrary to what some people believe, the size of the RAM on the board isn't quite as important as the memory bandwidth itself, which is improves with higher end cards. A GTX750 with 3GB of ram is still inferior to a GTX960 with 2GB.

Any video card you buy currently will be PCI Express 3.0 compatible. Your motherboard might not be. That's not terribly relevant except when putting two physical cards in a system since teaming the cards will cut the available bandwidth in half.