CitizenVectron Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 He has a Dell HP Elite 7100 Microtower PC. His CPU is a i7 860 2.8ghz with a ATI Radeon HD 4850 GPU. I was thinking of pushing him up to a 1000-series or 1100-series nVidia. Any thoughts? He primarily wants it to play Overwatch (since he can't run it now). Looking online even his old-ass CPU should be okay for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cusideabelincoln Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 A vanilla 1050 is fine. Or if you can find an older gen, second-hand card roughly equivalent to the 1050, that will also work: 960, 950, 750, or 660 Ti. Anything faster would be a waste, IMO. But, to answer your question, the best bang for the buck Nvidia GPU is the GTX 1060. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevwil Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 FYI Overwatch will bottleneck older quad-core CPUs. He may not get 60fps even on low details with a CPU that old. Not saying that 60fps is required obviously but in a really twitchy, fast game like Overwatch, it helps a lot. How big is this "micro tower" he's got? Will it fit a regular-size GPU? Sounds like it because of the 4850 but these newer GPUs are probably longer. Because the CPU is so old, I recommend a better GPU he can use in a new system when he decides to rebuild. 1060/570/580 minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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