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Which graphics card for £50 - £100?
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Asking £80..
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The 5770 would already be good enough for that, when the CPU is already holding back a chuck of GPU usage. Also, using 8xAA instead of 4xAA doesn't really make a game more enjoyable with the frame rate still drop to low 20s and average at around 40fps...it's just a bad justification for increasing GPU usage, rather than increasing frame rate/performance.
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Ok cheers.
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Actually rather than getting a graphic card upgrade for a clearly aged system...may be see if you can find the budget to upgrade the platform as well?
For example if you are on a budget, let say if you go for something like a G840 CPU for £55, a socket 1155 H61 board for £45, 4GB DDR3 memory for £20, that's just £120 total. Add something like a 6850 to it for £100, and you will have a decent gaming system on a small budget of £220. If you can add another £30 to your budget, you can get a Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Z68 board for around £75, which will future-proof you if you were to upgrade the CPU to a K-version of the SandyBridge/IvyBridge in the future and would allow you to overclock them.
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I actually had no intention to upgrade at all, the problem is caused by my 7900GTX not having sound on HDMI, which prompted me to look at graphics cards which has now been suggested that I do a full upgrade
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In that case, just grab a 2nd hand 5770 1GB (think it's around £35). It would be more than enough for your need and more than a match for your system.I actually had no intention to upgrade at all, the problem is caused by my 7900GTX not having sound on HDMI, which prompted me to look at graphics cards which has now been suggested that I do a full upgrade
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On the auction site it probably would be. Looking at your join date and post counts for this forum, you should have access to the members market...try have a look there instead. I've seen 5770 1GB going for under £40.
That's where I was basing that figure on.
Just seen how insanely cheap DDR3 is, I might be swayed yet.
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Yea. DDR3 Memory are very cheap now...I still remember 2x2GB DDR3 was still selling for around £100 two years ago...now they are £20 lol.
I recently bought a Sandybridge Celeron that is every bit as good as an E8400 in benchmarks. It was £30. More info here.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+G530+@+2.40GHz
I bought an Asrock H61M-VS for £39.99 and 4gb Corsair Vengeance blue for £23. IIRC it was like £94 all in delivered.
And it rocks. The CPU can't be overclocked so you just stick on the stock cooler, but my media PC is pretty rapid I have to say. And at that price it's not worth even bothering faffing around trying to find second hand gear because the CPU wipes the floor with any competition in that price bracket even second hand.
Infact no, that's not fair to the Celeron. It piddles on CPUs I've seen change hands second hand for £45.
Actually this is the better link.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+G530+@+2.40GHz