£30 graphics card HELP!

[Drejko]

so i need a new graphics card for my computer nothing fancy just its needs to run hd content and needs to run minecraft with good proformance and it need to be cheap as possible

 

[Xelene]

There's nothing good to be had at £30 can you go £50?

 

[coupe69]

£30ish will get you something like a second hand Nvidia 9600GT/8800GT/9800GT/250GTS/260GTX, ATi 3850/3870/4850/4870 - any of which will run HD content, minecraft, and plenty of other games just fine.

 

[IRLeetly]

£30ish will get you something like a second hand Nvidia 9600GT/8800GT/9800GT/250GTS/260GTX, ATi 3850/3870/4850/4870 - any of which will run HD content, minecraft, and plenty of other games just fine.

Yep on a very tight budget buying second hand is a good bet, although from a reputable member's market/place.

 

[Drejko]

would things like 5450 be ok i can stretch to £50 but no more

 

[Drejko]

u see i going to get a gtx 670 for battlefield and mw3 but getting that in a couple months and i want to upgrade my current athlon hp pc to run minecraft it does like 10 fps because it has ati 1150 or something built in

 

[Gav_881]

Get a 6450, have a 5450 in my media server and it can handle SWTOR at 720P medium settings and HD content so the 6450 should give you what you need.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-169-MS

 

[Xelene]

There's a ATI HD 6570 for £49.99 with a passive cooler. That's what I'd pick if you could stretch to £50.

 

[Drejko]

and ive got a 250w psu a standard one highest w is 208 and 12v rail think it will cope

 

[Smoogels]

AMD recommends a 400W PSU for the 6570
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desk...6570/pages/amd-radeon-hd-6570-overview.aspx#3

Same with the 6450 & 5450 sadly.

 

[Drejko]

ffs
lol thanks

 

[Muel]

u see i going to get a gtx 670 for battlefield and mw3 but getting that in a couple months and i want to upgrade my current athlon hp pc to run minecraft it does like 10 fps because it has ati 1150 or something built in

What spec is your CPU and RAM? Minecraft is fairly intensive...

 

[Winky_The_Winking_Turtle]

You say you are running a HP Athlon build. Yeah i doubt you are gonna be able to get a 670 for various reasons (bottleneck, etc.) Whats your full spec as you might have to upgrade some things as you only have a 300w PSU

 

[JonSmith]

you'll be fine with a 6450 on a 250W PSU. I've run athlon 64 x2 systems with old GPUs (about 40W) no problem. I even have an old dell system with a 3GHz HTT prescott pentium 4 with a working PSU and a 9800 pro in it. The CPU alone used over 100W!

 

[Gav_881]

AMD recommends a 400W PSU for the 6570
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desk...6570/pages/amd-radeon-hd-6570-overview.aspx#3

Same with the 6450 & 5450 sadly.

Have a 5450 running in my N40L and thats a 150W PSU so i think he's gonna be fine with that.

This is a useful app for working out your requirements. Note its the minimum so don't stick 249W's worth of kit on a 250W supply

http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

 

[wentalong]

I had a radeon 4670 for agessss which ran off the PCI lanes power and managed Minecraft on full, 1080p videos etc... Was a great little card for the price and even ran crisis on acceptable settings

I doubt you'll stress the card enough for it to draw its max watt output anyway, but be careful just incase, I wouldn't run that stock PSU for too long, upgrade it as soon as you have the chance after you get your GPU, someone here should quote you something nice...