How good is the ARC750 gpu with the latest drivers?

[pieman109]

As title really, whats the general consensus of opinion on this card. I've been asked to put a budget gaming pc together and I'm looking the various options between Nvidia, AMD and now Intel.
The system will be i3 12100, 16 gb DDR4 3200mhz ram, suitable mobo? Now I've been skim reading some of the reviews about the Intel 750 and it appears to be real VFM, putting up a good showing against the 3060,6600 and 6600xt, so my question is, is this Intel offering worth getting or am I letting myself in for a world of problems (I also fancy playing around with summat different as well!)
Cheers

 

[pieman109]

I'm assuming the "don't leave the pc idle too long" is due to all these message the intel control centre spews out? oh, and isn't the ray tracing performance pretty good also? (not that its important to me, but it might be to who gets the pc). The other thing is cost, its a fair bit cheaper than I would thought

 

[pieman109]

When they DX9 isn't supported, does this mean it won't play dx9 games, or just that the performance isn't that great?

 

[pieman109]

I reckon the obvious comparison is between the arc 750 and 6600 personally due to the cost being near identical, with the really just the differences between them in like R/T, 1440p performance, idle power, etc

 

[pieman109]

Thought about this one?

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I'd love to use one of those (I had one a while back) but it stretches his budget a bit too far unfortunately. Thats the trouble with some people, they expect a cray spec computer for the price of casio wrist watch so I'm really trying to keep costs as low as possible

 

[pieman109]

Ah I thought they were similar in price as was looking at this

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but just noticed one for 250 quid

£299, great value, but still to high but I'll try and him to raise his budget.

 

[pieman109]

Probably a different model tbh (I know nothing about the Intel card which is probably showing!)

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Neither do I, thats why I'm asking about them