New graphic card - advice please

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[Kevinmcg_ships]

Hi guys,

I'm wondering if any of you could help me?

I'm thinking of replacing my 6 years old graphic card GeForce 8800GT 512Mb, which is getting on a bit now. It has always been able to achieve between 19 fps (Sydney harbour) and 40 fps (Atlantic Ocean) in 'Medium' settings.

However the 8800GT struggles a lot in 'High' settings and the vessels suffer from 'jerky' movement when going at full speed, and the fps are typically between 12-30.

I'm considering a GeForce GTX 660, so I'm wondering if anyone who has one will be able to tell me if this is a good graphic card upgrade for me, and more importantly good enough for SSE?

Many thanks

[sadsid (†2016)]

Hi
I have the Geforce Gtx 670 and I am well pleased with it.
                                                                 Eric

[saltydog]

The GTX 660 seems a very good card..  How's your PSU..?

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-660/specifications

[Traddles]

Hi Kevin,
I have the Nvidia GTX 660 installed in my machine and I find it to be very good.
I attach a picture which shows that it is a very big thing!! I also attach  my Dxdiag so you can see the whole set up. I also added the 600w PSU, 8GB RAM, and a cooling fan to be on the safe side.

Regards,
Angus.

[Torslunde]

I recently upgraded from GeForce 6850 to GTX 660, and that was somewhat OK.

However upgrading from AMD Phenum II to Intel 5, 3570 really increased performance.

[Kevinmcg_ships]

Many thanks to all who has replied 

My PSU is 520w, which I have been told should be OK, although I can upgrade to 600w if necessary.

My PC case has got a cooling fan also, so it'll be OK temperature-wise.

Just now my processor is Intel i3-540 (3.06 GHz) which I'm guessing is OK for now, although I'm considering upgrading to Intel i5-3570K (3.4 GHz) at some point in future - that is, assuming my motherboard is able to accept the upgraded CPU.

[Kevinmcg_ships]

Hi Kevin,
I have the Nvidia GTX 660 installed in my machine and I find it to be very good.
I attach a picture which shows that it is a very big thing!! I also attach  my Dxdiag so you can see the whole set up. I also added the 600w PSU, 8GB RAM, and a cooling fan to be on the safe side.

Regards,
Angus.

That's quite a beast, Angus

Yes the size was a bit worrying - I've checked the dimensions and 8800GT is 9 inches long, a 660 GTX is around an inch longer. I've opened up my PC case and it looks a 660 GTX will fit - but only just!