Choosing a Graphics card...

[Mr Arky]

My friend is looking to buy a new graphics card,
Hes looking to be able to get good performance, and for example,
run battlefield 3, for a graphics card at about £80.

His specs at the moment are:

Dell inspiron 560 ready built computer,
64 bit

Processor: intel core 2 quad
Power supply: 300w
Ramm: 6gb
Current graphics card is a nvidia geforce 310

What would the best graphics card he could get for that price range and those specs?

Thank you

 

[Defconluke]

With such a low spec power supply and a reasonably power hungry quad core processor I wouldn't risk anything over a 7750/7770.

Those cards won't run Battlefield 3 very well at all >>BF3 benchmarks<<.

Your friend is wanting to play a reasonably new, high spec game on an aging PC with a low spec. In reality, it's just not going to happen.

 

[Orcvader]

With such a low spec power supply and a reasonably power hungry quad core processor I wouldn't risk anything over a 7750/7770.

Those cards won't run Battlefield 3 very well at all >>BF3 benchmarks<<.

Your friend is wanting to play a reasonably new, high spec game on an aging PC with a low spec. In reality, it's just not going to happen.

This. For now I would just get a 7750 as a safe bet, wouldn't trust that Dell PSU to run anything higher.

 

[OptimaLnrg]

make sure you test the card in the system and if it doesn't post sent it back under dsr.

dell sometimes have bios limitations to prevent installing other hardware.

 

[humbug]

With such a low spec power supply and a reasonably power hungry quad core processor I wouldn't risk anything over a 7750/7770.

Those cards won't run Battlefield 3 very well at all >>BF3 benchmarks<<.

Your friend is wanting to play a reasonably new, high spec game on an aging PC with a low spec. In reality, it's just not going to happen.

Those benchmark are getting on a year old. the 7750 will run BF3 pretty well at low setting with the latest drivers.

 

[dave_beast]

Stick a 7850 in there, the Dell 300w psu is rated at about 500w. Buying a 77** card is false economy as you get so much more from the 78** cards, and if he decides to build a new machine in the future, the 7850 won't hold him back as much as the 77** card.

 

[Jonny Chee]

My old 6850 used to run BF3 pretty well, mainly on medium settings though. That cost me £80 new, just sold to my friend for £60 as I have upgraded to a 7950.