New GPU required · DIGIT-ARC

1. What is the intended use for this graphic card ? Gaming or workstation work? (Name few Games or applications are you going to run)
Ans: Gaming and mostly watching movies. Games like Battlefield , COD MW etc

2. Which Power Supply do you have? (Be EXACT while naming the company and model)
Ans:Corsair VX450w

3. What is your Max budget ?
Ans: 20k

4. Which Screen resolution will you game at (if applicable)?
Ans: 1080p or low if required.

5. What are your current computer specifications ?
Ans:
Asus M5A78LM PLUS/USB3,
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE,
16GB DDR3(Hyperx Fury),
Acer XV272U (Updted today from Dell SP2309W )
1TB WD BLACK,
240GB Crucial SSD,
5TB Ext Hdd,
H100iV2,
LG DVD,
One INTAKE: CM Sickle flow and One Exhaust : CM Xtraflo.

Currently running the monitor @60Hz 1080p with Sapphire 6670 1GB DDR5. This i want to run in 1440p(not in game).

Now looking for a suitable Zotac Nvidia card.
ZOTAC GAMING GEFORCE GTX 1650 AMP 4GB GDDR5 Or ZOTAC GAMING GEFORCE GTX 1660 6GB GDDR5

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Your current system is very old so it won't be able to fully utilize any new decent graphics card. I suggest to either buy some used card for 4-5k temporarily or start saving more to build an entirely new system & then add a graphics card later.

kindly explain "fully utilize". if i buy new decent card will it run @1440p excluding gaming. or will be bottle necked?

avichandana20000 said:
Ans: Gaming and mostly watching movies. Games like Battlefield , COD MW etc

Which Battlefield game? Which CoD MW, old or new? Please be specific.

avichandana20000 said:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE,

Major bottleneck.

SaiyanGoku said:
Which Battlefield game? Which CoD MW, old or new? Please be specific.
Of course new.

Major bottleneck.

That means need to upgrade to Ryzen 5 series with G.
New board and DDR4 RAM. Then 650w 80+ bronze PSU and lastly GPU

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avichandana20000 said:
That means need to upgrade to Ryzen 5 series with G.
New board and DDR4 RAM. Then 650w 80+ bronze PSU and lastly GPU

You don't need ryzen G processor if you are going to buy graphics card for playing games anyway. You also don't need more than 550W psu unless going for high end graphics card or 8 core processor & planning on some serious overclocking. Save money & then buy everything in one go.

If GPU goes kaput without G processor how will display come to monitor?
Suffered a lot with GA990FX board when GPU went kaput

avichandana20000 said:
If GPU goes kaput without G processor how will display come to monitor?

Existing 3000G series APUs are Zen+ and not Zen 2. I wouldn't buy one just for iGPU. OTOH, laptop 4000 series APUs are Zen 2.

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avichandana20000 said:
If GPU goes kaput without G processor how will display come to monitor?
Suffered a lot with GA990FX board when GPU went kaput

Chances of gpu going kaput is same as chances of mobo going kaput so no point in buying an inferior processor just to get integrated graphics. If you still want to be extra safe then just buy some second hand cheap GT710/730 for 1.5-2k on olx in your city just to get display for 4-5 days while your gpu comes back from service centre.

so G suffixed processors are always inferior?

avichandana20000 said:
so G suffixed processors are always inferior?

No, it depends on the use.

SaiyanGoku said:
No, it depends on the use.

what kind of use or load makes it inferior?

avichandana20000 said:
what kind of use or load makes it inferior?

Top end 3400G is inferior to R3 3100 while being superior to R5 1600 in gaming. In multi-threaded workloads like Video Editing R5 1600 is still better than those two because of more cores and threads.

avichandana20000 said:
If GPU goes kaput without G processor how will display come to monitor?
Suffered a lot with GA990FX board when GPU went kaput

Keep the current GPU (HD 6670) has back-up.

These days such problems are rare. Quality of all components has increased.

If you really want a G series processor, wait for Ryzen 4000G parts.