Advice on Graphics Cards

[Quesse]

On the other end the GTX 660 will fit nicely with anything you will buy and won't bog it down for at least another couple years and possibly more if you're not much of a stickler for top performance.

You do know her CPU is only a Athlon(tm) II X2 240. Pairing a GTX 660 with that is a complete waste of money.

Spend $50 on a 6670 for a quick boost and save your money for a new PC. Anything else is a waste.

[Abriael]

You do know her CPU is only a Athlon(tm) II X2 240. Pairing a GTX 660 with that is a complete waste of money.

Wooo hyperbole. Completely untrue, there'll be a bit of bottlenecking, but not much at all considering that most games nowadays are GPU intensive and not CPU intensive. the $50 on a 6670 are just wasted money since she wants to upgrade her PC anyway afterwards, and having a good card already is a good base for it.

Buy 660 -> Buy rest = less money than Buy obsolete 6670 - > buy rest + new video card & throw obsolete 6670 into the recycle bin.

And she'll have much better performance from the get go instead of just a paltry upgrade until she updates the full system.

[AdorraEloom]

Wooo hyperbole. Completely untrue, there'll be a bit of bottlenecking, but not much at all considering that most games nowadays are GPU intensive and not CPU intensive. the $50 on a 6670 are just wasted money since she wants to upgrade her PC anyway afterwards, and having a good card already is a good base for it.

Buy 660 -> Buy rest = less money than Buy obsolete 6670 - > buy rest + new video card & throw obsolete 6670 into the recycle bin.

And she'll have much better performance from the get go instead of just a paltry upgrade until she updates the full system.

Main reason for her to get the 6670 is due to her 400W PSU. A 660 is a much better card, but if her budget comes into play she would have to spend 150$ more on the 660, and buy a new PSU for about 100-150$ maybe more.

And from the looks of it, her PC looks like it is not a custom build, most likely a generic PC bought from the store, that being said her case must be very small, with low cooling, so I'm not even sure if she could fit a 660 into her current case. A 6670 is a pretty small card and should fit into most cases (best buy brand PC's).

[Zenaku]

Main reason for her to get the 6670 is due to her 400W PSU. A 660 is a much better card, but if her budget comes into play she would have to spend 150$ more on the 660, and buy a new PSU for about 100-150$ maybe more.

And from the looks of it, her PC looks like it is not a custom build, most likely a generic PC bought from the store, that being said her case must be very small, with low cooling, so I'm not even sure if she could fit a 660 into her current case. A 6670 is a pretty small card and should fit into most cases (best buy brand PC's).

If you talking about wasting 150$ overall to buy a 660 and the PSU ok but if you talking about 150$ to buy a PSU o.o that little overkill on PSU but i thinking you talking about overall lol.

[Abriael]

Main reason for her to get the 6670 is due to her 400W PSU. A 660 is a much better card, but if her budget comes into play she would have to spend 150$ more on the 660, and buy a new PSU for about 100-150$ maybe more.

And from the looks of it, her PC looks like it is not a custom build, most likely a generic PC bought from the store, that being said her case must be very small, with low cooling, so I'm not even sure if she could fit a 660 into her current case. A 6670 is a pretty small card and should fit into most cases (best buy brand PC's).

1: she can get a Corsair 500 PSU which is plenty for any non SLI/crossfire system nowadays for $29 with the rebate, which I linked.
2: If you read my posts, I researched her PC rather throughly. It's a 16.89 inches case and Yes, it can fit a 660 (they aren't really big anyway, less than two inches of difference with the 6670) and considering that the 660 is VERY heat efficient (and the gigabyte one is one with the best heat dissipating solution out there between every card on the market), it's a much better solution than an old 6670 with it's obsolete heat dissipating solution.
For added safety all she has to do is to measure from the base of her current GPU at the back of the case and see if she has 10.3 inches of space to the HD bay, but it's almost impossible that she doesn't.