Spec me a card please!

[banja]

I'm only a casual gamer, but I want to update my monitor so therefore I need to get a card with a displayport.

My PC is quite old and has a 775 socket mobo (Asus P5Q SE/R) / quad core CPU.

Currently I have a GeForce GTX 560ti which is perfectly fine mostly, as I play older games, and a couple of racing sims so it's quite adequate.

Will newer cards even work on my old system? Budget is cheap as I can go (will prob look second hand) but obviously don't want to go backwards in performance. Nvidia preferred.

 

[ShakeNBake]

probably quite a few cheap 2nd hand GTX 970's around.
check your power supply, wattage and quality (80+ ??)
measure how much space you have in your case for a new card
etc.

 

[eddiew]

775 was still PCI-E, so should be fine there. You're probably limited to 8x, but that's not going to be your bottleneck really.

I'd suggest something lightweight like a 1050, since you'll get the latest API support, with a low power envelope and smaller size. Performance should be quite a lot better, despite this being the budget card for this year.

Alternatively - there are DVI-displayport adapters available. You'll need an 'active' one, I think. Will cost less than the GPU

 

[Freddie1980]

I wouldn't go as high as a GTX970, maybe look to get a 2nd hand GTX 670/GTX 760. The GTX 960 you could also consider but 2nd prices are around £80ish whereas a GTX670 is going to around £50 and will offer around the performance.

Also as per your preference stick with Nvidia and avoid AMD, their CPU overhead is terrible and cripples low end hardware like yours.

 

[banja]

All good suggestions thankyou. PSU is no problem it's a decent 650w (OCZ). Case is also ok size wise.

I was mostly concerned that the mobo / chipset may actually be too old to run a current (ish) gen gfx card, but I'll be ok it seems with 960 etc? I think I'll look to that level, maybe 760 if I get it nice and cheap.