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Recommend a budget graphic card for around 120€
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Here you go. It's the card I bought several years back for several hundred dollars more. Haven't had any issues with it and it runs all but the most graphically intense games just fine.
Depends on your chosen flavor of GPU.
NVIDIA: GeForce GTX 650ti
ATI: Radeon 7850
Both tend to run neck-and-neck in benchmarks.
--Patrick
EDIT: Gared , 120 Euros is, like, $165 in American Dollars.
NVIDIA: GeForce GTX 650ti
ATI: Radeon 7850
Both tend to run neck-and-neck in benchmarks.
--Patrick
EDIT: Gared , 120 Euros is, like, $165 in American Dollars.
Why spend more than you have to? I guess it depends on what someone considers to be a "budget" card.[DOUBLEPOST=1360089427][/DOUBLEPOST]Though, honestly, if I had to choose between a 650Ti and a 9800GT, I'd definitely take the Ti.
Sadly the Radeaon 7850 is 160 euros.But maybe I will wait another month to save up for the 7850.
Ah. You said "around" 120, so I expected that meant you had a little wiggle room.
Also, NewEgg in the USA has the 7850 on sale for $159 after rebate, which was spot on your number, so I figured there might be similar sales wherever you are.
--Patrick
The vendors here usually just erase the $ sign and add a € after the price.Screw exchange rates.
Not pooh-poohing your choice. The 9800GT is a very solid card, one of the best variants of the 8800GT you can get (I don't count the GT1xx series). It's like the TNT2 of the modern age, meaning that it is usually the card that game designers target as their "minimum system requirement" these days, but NVIDIA has already declared the Geforce 6xxx and 7xxx series as EOL, and I can't think the 8xxx/9xxx are that far behind, especially now that Redmond is pushing Win8 so intently.
--Patrick
Am using a 5670 right now,but I think it is about to die.Heats up quite quickly even after cleaning off the dust from the fan and card.Thought about replacing the fan but I decided against it.
To be honest, I'm surprised that the 8xxx/9xxx series hasn't hit EOL already, but I'll probably end up buying one more of them for an older tower that my wife might want to use to play Skyrim and Minecraft, since her laptop can't handle them anymore (it's starting to have cooling problems with such video intensive applications as Dragon Realms and Solitaire).
Any opinions on the HD 7770?
It performs about half as fast as a 7850 but only draws about 5-10% less power. So unless you can get it for half the price of a 7850, I wouldn't go for it.
--Patrick
Hokay. Im locking on the 7850 then.Weirdly enough I got an unexpected raise of 80€ a month today.Guess the universe is telling me to get it.
by the way,I can get the 2GB for 169€. Are there noticable differences between the 1GB and 2GB version?
Thank you for the advice,guys.
by the way,I can get the 2GB for 169€. Are there noticable differences between the 1GB and 2GB version?
Thank you for the advice,guys.
Supposedly there is, if you look at the various testing sites in this thread. I got the 2GB version myself and it runs Far Cry 3 on High at 1080p pretty much smooth as butter, so anecdotally, if you're not playing high-end FPS games, you're probably fine with 1GB.
2GB will pay off later more than right now. It means you'll be able to run larger OpenCL programs someday, it means you can hook up more monitor space (larger resolutions or more monitors), it means that games don't have to shuffle around textures as much since more of them can be cached on-card.
--Patrick
--Patrick
Bought the card and installed on my asrock ucc n68c-s. I have a 460W power supply and I also
hear the cards fans running (loudly) but if I try to install the drivers it says I dont have the card installed
It is the ASUS DirectCU II Radeon HD 7850.
hear the cards fans running (loudly) but if I try to install the drivers it says I dont have the card installed
It is the ASUS DirectCU II Radeon HD 7850.
GasBandit
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That seems like not enough wattage to me. But if that was the case, I'd be surprised it worked at all.
When was the last time you checked on your motherboard drivers?
Just updated a week ago.I am using the onboard grapics while the 7850 is running fans on full power.
bought this one.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121651
gonna power it down install the old one again and buy a new power supply and hope that it works.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121651
gonna power it down install the old one again and buy a new power supply and hope that it works.
Mobo: asrock n68c-s ucc
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 960T BE
Ram: 8GB
Powersupply: 460W
Running Win 7 64-Bit.
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 960T BE
Ram: 8GB
Powersupply: 460W
Running Win 7 64-Bit.
Just for the kicks of it I pulled the card out and then inserted it again.Seem to work now. :/
Ah yes, the old "shut it down and try again" method. Hopefully it stays stable for you and was just a bad connection or something.
Oh my...the games...so pretty. >.< As usual,you guys are the best.
Probably a dirty slot or didn't have the aux power cable connected fully.
Or possibly not updating the old drivers (to ones that would recognize the new card) before installing the new card.
Or maybe your MLB wasn't fully powered down when you installed it, and needed to sort itself out.
--Patrick
Or possibly not updating the old drivers (to ones that would recognize the new card) before installing the new card.
Or maybe your MLB wasn't fully powered down when you installed it, and needed to sort itself out.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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God damn. As fast as my Geforce 8800 GTX is, this chart makes it seem like yesterday's intel onboard.
I really can't wrap my brain around something being five times faster. Must be a lot of high resolution anti-aliasing going on or something.
I really can't wrap my brain around something being five times faster. Must be a lot of high resolution anti-aliasing going on or something.
It gets even sicker when you realize the 7850 is doing it on a power budget 55W less than the 8800 GTX.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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That has much lower performance though, doesn't it? I had my eye on the 660 Ti... costs more but... hell I spent $500 on this 8800 GTX.[DOUBLEPOST=1360273843][/DOUBLEPOST]Or did you mean the 560 ti? it seems more comperable.
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