Recommend me a graphics card

DanielT · 26 May 2011 at 22:12

I am looking for a budget graphics card.

I have a Gigabyte M68MT-S2 Motherboard and a Coolermaster 430 elite case , So it should fit in my case.

I only need it for my brother so he can play Flight Simulator X so i doubt if i need a top of the range one.

Any recommendations would be great.

Thanks !

RJC · 26 May 2011 at 22:13

How much is your budget?

DanielT · 26 May 2011 at 22:20

RJC said:
How much is your budget?

About £80 Max as i never use my PC now lol. My bro will be playing it mostly and he's 15.

Cheers,
Dan

AshenShugar1873 · 26 May 2011 at 22:28

Right to the edge of your budget, but a great deal and a decent mid-range card.

XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 Single Slot 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £78 special offer

logi-cat · 26 May 2011 at 22:54

i agree with AshenShugar, 5770 prob the best for that price, you wont find anything else.

Operation · 26 May 2011 at 23:05

+1
The 5770 is still better than the 6670 and the £100 5830 probably isn't worth the extra. I don't know where Nvidia comes though.

MrElve · 27 May 2011 at 00:50

+1 to the 5770. Was going to recommend a GTX460 but thats way out of price budget.

olivier renault · 27 May 2011 at 08:22

What PSU you have?

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/296

you will need 300W (25+A) on the 12V rail, and a PCI-E 6 pin connector.

samuelmorris · 27 May 2011 at 08:44

I'm probably one of the more radeon-oriented people here, but for flight Sim X, you might be wise to consider a geforce. There can be in excess of a 100% bias towards geforce in the title, to the extent that a GTX260 (192-core) outperforms an HD5870. Not sure if that's changed in recent times or not. For general gaming I usually recommend radeons, but for FSX, they don't make a lot of sense.

DanielT · 27 May 2011 at 18:05

I have a 500w coolermaster PSU

Stoner81 · 27 May 2011 at 18:10

If you can scrounge up another £20 then you could get the GTS450.

Stoner81.

olivier renault · 27 May 2011 at 18:11

samuelmorris said:
I'm probably one of the more radeon-oriented people here, but for flight Sim X, you might be wise to consider a geforce. There can be in excess of a 100% bias towards geforce in the title, to the extent that a GTX260 (192-core) outperforms an HD5870. Not sure if that's changed in recent times or not. For general gaming I usually recommend radeons, but for FSX, they don't make a lot of sense.

Sounds like a good idea to do some research on the graphical performance of various budget cards with that particular game.

I have a 500w coolermaster PSU

That's fine for any single PCI powered graphics card (most sub £100 cards, like the HD 5770).

panyan · 27 May 2011 at 18:15

Stoner81 said:
If you can scrounge up another £20 then you could get the GTS450.

Stoner81.

from what i understand, that is worthwhile as flight simulator works a lot "better" with nvidia

biuro74 · 27 May 2011 at 18:24

Stoner81 said:
If you can scrounge up another £20 then you could get the gts450.

stoner81.

lol, for just 10 quids more he is able to buy gtx 460 (clearance lines, waiting for an occassion - it shows up and disappears).
for fsx purposes good cpu is more important than gpu:

http://lkalamaras.blogspot.com/2009/10/fsx-best-hardware-combination-of-day.html

So it's better idea to have a quad-core (or 6-core) CPU + nice o/c. GeForce is better indeed, but there's no big difference between 8800 GT and GTX 280 (!):

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-comparison,2007-18.html

Maybe something changed since this tests

Predicament · 27 May 2011 at 18:37

Green is Nvidia

samuelmorris · 27 May 2011 at 18:49

Yeah, but I mostly don't like tomshardware, since IIRC they're basically an nvidia subsidiary. Pretty sure I've seen similar results from other sites hence why I stated it, but for graphics benches, I don't go near THG.