Looking to pair a decent video card with older 775 motherboard

bobmitch · May 27, 2012, 12:30 AM

I am going to rebuild an older Asus P5E (x38 chipset with PCIe 2.0) with Intel Q9450 for my son. He mainly needs and wants it for the firewire port on the MB. He just graduated with a BBS in Music Business and has a studio built on the M-Audio Profire, which utilizes Firewire. In addition, thought I would put something together where he can play some games as well. How much horespower can I put on that board? The fastest card I ever had on it was my EVGA GTX 260/216. Is there anything in the 5000/6000 series that can work well together with a 775 motherboard? I was thinking something like a 6850...The Q9450 still handles things pretty well...I just don't want to bottleneck the video card. The MB is even Crossfire ready

Thanks

Bob

Blín D'ñero · May 27, 2012, 06:47 AM

Bottleneck the videocard? It totally depends on the game, the ingame graphical settings and the resolution.
There's no 'videocard horsepower' limit to what card you can put in it; however there might be a limit depending on the PSU (power supply unit) in the machine, how much headroom you have.

My Socket 775 PC (a Rampage Formula) has a 850W PSU, an E8400 Core 2 Duo CPU, a HD4870X2 videocard, it runs all slightly older and most of the newest games at highest settings @ 1920 x 1200.

In your case, for a gaming PC, i would skip the previous generation and take at least a HD7870.

bobmitch · May 27, 2012, 10:03 AM

Thanks...good to know. I have a 6850M in my laptop and am pretty impressed with what it can do. If the 7000 series is a good choice...will look into it...

Blín D'ñero · May 27, 2012, 01:38 PM

Yes, the 7870 is considerably faster than 6870: for example: Crysis 2 (TechPowerup review) at slightly less power consumption.

It's not cheap ($ 350) though...

Blín D'ñero · May 27, 2012, 01:49 PM

Hey that's funny...
At Newegg, HD 7870 costs 350. But for 30 bucks more you can have a 7950.
A Powercolor HD 7950 for $ 380 (4th from the top, scroll down) plus 3 games coupon. Strange pricing...

oozz77 · May 27, 2012, 07:21 PM

Hi Bobmitch,

You haven't said a price range you are looking for a card for the older machine?

You have many choices, even a new or second hand 5770 (or two) may be quite enough for his needs and your older machine for now until a full upgrade time.

I have an Asus CU in my older setup below and still plays at 1360 x 768 well on my lowly Screen specs and is still DX 11!!

lamarodom007 · May 28, 2012, 01:20 AM

I have a Q9550 @4.2Ghz running with a pair of 6850 , very descent consider the price i paid for those 2 card. IMO something like 6850.7850,7770 should all be good.

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bobmitch Radeon HD 6950 Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Plano, Tx Posts: 394	Looking to pair a decent video card with older 775 motherboard I am going to rebuild an older Asus P5E (x38 chipset with PCIe 2.0) with Intel Q9450 for my son. He mainly needs and wants it for the firewire port on the MB. He just graduated with a BBS in Music Business and has a studio built on the M-Audio Profire, which utilizes Firewire. In addition, thought I would put something together where he can play some games as well. How much horespower can I put on that board? The fastest card I ever had on it was my EVGA GTX 260/216. Is there anything in the 5000/6000 series that can work well together with a 775 motherboard? I was thinking something like a 6850...The Q9450 still handles things pretty well...I just don't want to bottleneck the video card. The MB is even Crossfire ready Thanks Bob

bobmitch's System Specs
Motherboard	Asus Sabertooth z77
CPU	Intel i7 3770K
Graphics	EVGA GTX 670 FTW
Memory	16 GB Corsair Vengeance 9-10-9-27
Display	LG W2353V 23" HD
Soundcard & Speakers	Soundblaster Z
Hard-Drives	Samsung 256 GB 830 Series SSD / Hitachi 7200 rpm HDD
Optical Drives	Pioneer BDR 2208
Power Supply	Corsair HX850
Case	Thermaltake Overseer RX-1
Operating System	Windows 8 Professional

May 27, 2012, 06:47 AM	#2
Blín D'ñero HD7970 crossfire Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,473	Bottleneck the videocard? It totally depends on the game, the ingame graphical settings and the resolution. There's no 'videocard horsepower' limit to what card you can put in it; however there might be a limit depending on the PSU (power supply unit) in the machine, how much headroom you have. My Socket 775 PC (a Rampage Formula) has a 850W PSU, an E8400 Core 2 Duo CPU, a HD4870X2 videocard, it runs all slightly older and most of the newest games at highest settings @ 1920 x 1200. In your case, for a gaming PC, i would skip the previous generation and take at least a HD7870. __________________ Intel i7 2700K @ 4.8 Ghz \| Zalman CPNS9900LED \| Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z \| 16 GB Corsair Dominator GT CMT16GX3M4X2133C9 DDR3 \| 2 x (Sapphire) AMD Radeon HD7970 (crossfire) [via DVI-D to display] \| Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro \| Corsair AX 1200W \| 2 x WDC WD1002FAEX \| Optiarc AD 5240S \| Dell U3011 @ 2560x1600 [input via DVI-D] \| Steelseries 7G \| Razer Imperator 2012 \| Coolermaster Stacker STC T01 \| Logitech Z-5500 \| Sennheiser HD598 \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 \| Last edited by Blín D'ñero : May 27, 2012 at 01:41 PM. Reason: added the CPU :D

Blín D'ñero's System Specs
Motherboard	Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z
CPU	i7 2700K @ 4.8 Ghz
Graphics	2 x (Sapphire) AMD Radeon HD7970 (crossfire)
Memory	Corsair Dominator GT CMT16GX3M4X2133C9 (4x4 Gb)
Cooling Solution	Zalman CPNS 9900LED
Display	Dell U3010 @ 2560x1600 (via DVI)
Soundcard & Speakers	Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro [PCI-E], Logitech Z-5500
Hard-Drives	WDC WD1002FAEX + WDC WD1002FAEX
Optical Drives	Optiarc AD 5240S
Power Supply	Corsair HX 1200W
Case	Coolermaster Stacker STC-T01
Input Devices	Steelseries 7G, Razer Imperator 2012
Operating System	Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

bobmitch's System Specs
Motherboard	Asus Sabertooth z77
CPU	Intel i7 3770K
Graphics	EVGA GTX 670 FTW
Memory	16 GB Corsair Vengeance 9-10-9-27
Display	LG W2353V 23" HD
Soundcard & Speakers	Soundblaster Z
Hard-Drives	Samsung 256 GB 830 Series SSD / Hitachi 7200 rpm HDD
Optical Drives	Pioneer BDR 2208
Power Supply	Corsair HX850
Case	Thermaltake Overseer RX-1
Operating System	Windows 8 Professional

May 27, 2012, 10:03 AM	#3
bobmitch Radeon HD 6950 Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Plano, Tx Posts: 394	Thanks...good to know. I have a 6850M in my laptop and am pretty impressed with what it can do. If the 7000 series is a good choice...will look into it...

May 27, 2012, 01:38 PM	#4
Blín D'ñero HD7970 crossfire Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,473	Yes, the 7870 is considerably faster than 6870: for example: Crysis 2 (TechPowerup review) at slightly less power consumption. It's not cheap ($ 350) though... __________________ Intel i7 2700K @ 4.8 Ghz \| Zalman CPNS9900LED \| Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z \| 16 GB Corsair Dominator GT CMT16GX3M4X2133C9 DDR3 \| 2 x (Sapphire) AMD Radeon HD7970 (crossfire) [via DVI-D to display] \| Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro \| Corsair AX 1200W \| 2 x WDC WD1002FAEX \| Optiarc AD 5240S \| Dell U3011 @ 2560x1600 [input via DVI-D] \| Steelseries 7G \| Razer Imperator 2012 \| Coolermaster Stacker STC T01 \| Logitech Z-5500 \| Sennheiser HD598 \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 \| Last edited by Blín D'ñero : May 27, 2012 at 01:45 PM.

May 27, 2012, 01:49 PM	#5
Blín D'ñero HD7970 crossfire Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,473	Hey that's funny... At Newegg, HD 7870 costs 350. But for 30 bucks more you can have a 7950. A Powercolor HD 7950 for $ 380 (4th from the top, scroll down) plus 3 games coupon. Strange pricing... __________________ Intel i7 2700K @ 4.8 Ghz \| Zalman CPNS9900LED \| Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z \| 16 GB Corsair Dominator GT CMT16GX3M4X2133C9 DDR3 \| 2 x (Sapphire) AMD Radeon HD7970 (crossfire) [via DVI-D to display] \| Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro \| Corsair AX 1200W \| 2 x WDC WD1002FAEX \| Optiarc AD 5240S \| Dell U3011 @ 2560x1600 [input via DVI-D] \| Steelseries 7G \| Razer Imperator 2012 \| Coolermaster Stacker STC T01 \| Logitech Z-5500 \| Sennheiser HD598 \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 \| Last edited by Blín D'ñero : May 27, 2012 at 01:51 PM.

May 27, 2012, 07:21 PM	#6
oozz77 Radeon HD 7970 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 886	Hi Bobmitch, You haven't said a price range you are looking for a card for the older machine? You have many choices, even a new or second hand 5770 (or two) may be quite enough for his needs and your older machine for now until a full upgrade time. I have an Asus CU in my older setup below and still plays at 1360 x 768 well on my lowly Screen specs and is still DX 11!! __________________ Asus M3A78-EMH HDMI AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 4 Gig Kingston PC2-6400 ASUS EAH5770 CuCore LG 20' Wide Screen Flatron LG-GSA DVD Rewriter/Burner, Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D, 3 x 620 gig drives, Cable Internet, SoundWorks FPS 1000+Altec Lansing(6.1 setup), Last edited by oozz77 : May 27, 2012 at 07:25 PM.

oozz77's System Specs
Motherboard	Asus M3A78-EMH HDMI
CPU	AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
Graphics	ASUS 5770
Memory	4 Gig Kingston PC2-6400
Cooling Solution	Various
Display	LG 20' Wide Screen Flatron
Soundcard & Speakers	Onboard
Hard-Drives	3 x 620 gig drives
Optical Drives	2 LG sata Burners
Power Supply	Thermaltake 600 Watt
Case	Sonata
Operating System	Windows 7 64 bit
Extra Info	Trinity A8-5500 Desktop

May 28, 2012, 01:20 AM	#7
lamarodom007 XTreameRadeoner Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 293	I have a Q9550 @4.2Ghz running with a pair of 6850 , very descent consider the price i paid for those 2 card. IMO something like 6850.7850,7770 should all be good. __________________ Intel i7-3930k @ 4.8Ghz 16GB G-Skill DDR3 Sniper 2133 MHZ Quad Channel Samsung 830 256GB x 2 RAID 0 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 64MB 2 x Geforce GTX 680 SLI MSI X79 LGA 2011 Seasonic Platinum 1000 Watts PSU Nixeus NX-VUE27 2560x1440P IPS Display Port

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