CONCLUSION
In my career as an IT professional, company-computer-guy and “that-friend-who-knows-computers,†I’ve had a lot of people ask how they can soup up their existing computers to be able to play the latest games and stuff. As much as I’d like to recommend a complete system upgrade, budget constraints usually hold these people down. After seeing the results from our tests above, I’m a bit more optimistic in recommending a graphics card upgrade than a total system overhaul.
If you’re still strapped for cash and your system is anything around our test system, you’re probably asking yourself is the graphics card update worth it and you know what, we definitely believe so. The cost of a modern system far outweighs that of a single card which as we’ve seen is plenty enough to give some spark back to our Core 2 Duo system. An NVIDIA GTX 650, particularly the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Edition would be top choices for any would-be upgrade and would set you back anywhere from ₱5000 all the way up to ₱16000 depending on your preferred upgrade path. The NVIDIA GTX 650 Ti Boost Edition retails for around ₱7200 and features GPU Boost like its bigger brothers. In closing, upgrading from GeForce 9600GT to a GeForce GTX 660 Ti gave us a smooth gaming experience on modern titles and that’s the way it’s meant to be played.
2 Comments
This is great.. specially for those who have limited budgets, no need to buy a new system unit. Thanks for this!
This is so true. I was once in the same situation. First I have a crappy system and a crappy gfx card. At that time, my gaming experience suck. I can’t play the latest games and all of the games I have I played it on low settings to achieve tolerable frame rates. Then after upgrading just my old gfx card to a higher, more latest, mid end gaming gfx card, it gave me a hunch of what “the way its meant to played” experience is. Thanks graphics card. giyomi giyomi :3