Graphics Card - upgrade advice req.

[Oly71]

Good day Gents,

I have lost all knowledge of upgrading since my last build was over 6 years and I sought the advice of a friend throughout.

System:

Pentium Dual Core E5200 @ 2.5
4.00 Gb Ram
Nvidia GT 9500 512mb

I feel like I should be supplying more information than I already am..

I'd like the system to cope with larger resolutions in games and also increase fps. Whats the best card that can work in my machine? Probs have a limit of around £100.

Many thanks
Oly71

 

[Phage]

What games are you playing ? That's a very old box that's going to struggle with many modern games.

 

[Oly71]

Tell me about it..
Probably should save for a new system.

CS:S, The Old Republic, CS:GO, Total War series.

 

[maffa_82]

i think the question should be is what games do you WANT to play rather than what your playing now tbh. Your prob best of getting a 2nd hand card for around the £100 mark but you will have to look into updating your whole system asap as i dont think it will cope with a decent gpu.

 

[dacads]

Pick up a PNY 9800GT for £30

 

[arc@css]

New cpu and motherboard for sure.

 

[pecnarf]

if it was a core 2 quad cpu then I would suggest maybe an AMD 7700 to 7950 series card or nvidia 550-560ti / 640 to 660ti. but as you got a dual core cpu, I strongly suggest you upgrade cpu, ram and motherboard. as it really does need to be upgrade to play any of the current and future game.

as for what to go for Intel sandybridge I5 2500k / ivybridge I5 3570k on a Z77 board or AMD Bulldozer FX-4 4170 or Piledriver FX-6 6300 on a 990x board, 8gb to 16gb of ram at either 1600 or 1866 MHz should do you good for next 5yrs. if you slap on an good of enough cpu cooler on it and oc it to 4.6ghz then you won't have any problem playing any game.

 

[garnhamr]

maybe a q6600 and motherboard 2nd hand which go for about £100.
MY q6600 was starting to not be good enough though and after you've bought that i think you would still need to get something like a gtx460 and overclock the pants off of it all to reach a point where you could run games at high'ish settings smoothly.
This would be the cheap option too...