Guild Wars 2

Hello All,

I have a question about video cards. I am looking into a new desktop system from Dell Canada. I was looking at the XPS 8700 model. I noticed that there was a different video card installed depending on which hard drive size selected, 1TB or 2TB. Not that there is a relationship, but that was the package .design. So I wanted to get better feedback on the 2 cards.

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 745 4GB DDR3 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti 2GB DDR5

I noticed that 1 has 4GB RAM while the other just 2GB. But the 750 model is a dual slot card. So my question is: Is it better to go with the 4GB card or will the 2GB card be just as good since it’s a “Dual Slot” card? My old notion is more power is always best. ( No replacement for displacement ) theory.

Now my primary usage for the PC is Photo Editing & GW2. I will most likely hold onto the PC for 4-5 years, so I want to insure the right choice.

TIA
Mike

Size of a graphics card doesn’t matter too much anymore today. It’s the hardware on it that counts. both cards are optimal for Guild Wars 2 but I’d go for the GTX 750TI because it’s much faster than the alternative.

Neither of the two graphics cards are top end, so always keep in mind that a card having more RAM is usually packing slower RAM. DDR3 is substantially slower than GDDR5 which is designed around gaming.

Avelos,

Thanks for the reply. It’s been quite some time since I built my current PC and haven’t kept up on the newer tech. Good to note that the GTX 750TI would be the better choice as I’d like the larger hard drive that it comes with. RAW photos eat hard drive space.

Not too worried if the cards are not the industry standard. If you look up the minimum system requirements to play GW2 you’ll see my current PC’s specs. So this should suit me just fine for some time.

Thanks Again!

for the price of the XPS 8700, neither of those cards are a good choice.

I would expect to see a GTX 770 in the VERY LEAST in a XPS gaming workstation. You are seriously better off building your own, or buying a mid range full dell tower and installing your own GPU after market.

Do not get the 745

750ti>>>>>745(oem) ddr3. Hugely different chips

The oem 745 is a rebadged oem 640 (oem) with 384 cuda cores on the keplar GK107 chip. Super weak with slow memory.

The 750 ti is the new maxwell GM 107 with 640 cuda cores. The gpu and the memory are much much faster. old gtx 660 equiv

In no situation is the 745 better. More vram will not cancel out the huge discrepncy in the gpus

the 2gb vram will only be an issue if you are gaming on a monitor with resolution higher than 1920×1200p.

Dodgycookies,

Thanks for the info, this & what Avelos said helped to seal it for me. Since my motherboard bit the dust on Saturday, I had no choice but to order up a new PC. I went with the model that had the GTX 750. I guess the old one knew it’s days were limited. Good thing I back up to the NAS regularly!