Will a Nvidia GTX 970 fit in my pc?

I haven`t finished school yet, i`m picking my gcse`s soon, but my school isn`t great and the Computer teacher left so I may have to take it outside school.

 

Videos can only help you so far I spent 4 years working solidly with computers I understand more than I did back in 2011, you need to learn from being hands on with the parts to what they can really do...

 

I don't take computing classes (don't have the option) but if I say so myself, I know quite a bit about this stuff.

 

I guess I`m okay with computers, i`m still learning.

 

He had a 240

 

All depends on how you were taught I learned on the job and thats been good for me

 

Hmm that's pretty terrible, no idea why anyone would buy cards that low end, they aren't worth it at all.. Now you also have to think about your power supply etc. Considering how mediocre that card is I wouldn't be surprised if you're running some 300w PSU that's dying to pop when you put in a high end gpu.

 

@Morgiman I ask you again, what's your budget?

 

Hes not been extremely clear on that if we can get a budget then we can work on a good gaming setup

 

Exactly.

 

I think hes trying to keep his old system to be honest with you....he just wants to upgrade it....that wont go anywhere for him...

 

He should keep his case and possibly HDD.

 

What about an internal layout thats gonna be a headache to work with...

 

Honestly after seeing just how incredibly low end the GPU is putting a 380x in the case (assuming the power supply isn't a turd) would help alot and is quite cheap for what it is, being a bit faster than a GTX 960. He said earlier he was getting about 14fps which is absolutely awful and is definitely a GPU issue, the FX cpus arent that bad, they will still have alot of issues with some vehicles in the game but most single vehicles won't bottleneck at all.

 

Okay what would you suspect is powering that system of his I would think something around 500 to 600W at most....

 

Well as he has skimped on so many specs and details its hard to know but judging by the GPU (its a pre-built I assume) its probably running a 500w maximum which is barely enough to run that CPU and GPU together. Not to mention its probably not 80+ so it will probably blow itself up with an kind of upgrading :|

 

Yeah hes got the old school non modular system there at a guess and thats really gonna screw him up badly hes gonna likely brown out when he puts in all that new stuff in his pc

 

I have a non-modular, 350W 20+ Cardboard (as I call it) PSU that could blow up any second, so I doubt hes running anything more than a 400W PSU.

 

I went from a 500W to an 860W PSU when I upgraded my old pc about 6 years ago after I blew the PSU by cutting a power cable and my dad ALWAYS reminds me of it!

 

Why would you do that?