what graphics card for this set up

[PaulMTC]

I have the following .....

1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
1 x MSI H61M-P31-G3 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £34.99
OCZ 500W PSU

..... What its the maximum performance graphics card I should consider?

Thanks

Paul.

 

[Sliver]

What is your budget ?

 

[Marine-RX179]

Sometime like a 7850 would do. I wouldn't go for faster and more expensive card than that considering the CPU.

 

[Sliver]

Or if you prefer Nvidia, this is on offer at the moment ---> http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-292-AS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=

 

[PaulMTC]

What is your budget ?

Assume unlimited budget - I'm interested to know how powerful a graphics card this system could handle without changing the PSU, processor, mobo

I.e. at what point does it become pointless going higher before CPU becomes limiting factor or PSU can't handle it etc.

Thanks

Paul.

 

[Marine-RX179]

The 7850 is plenty fast enough and had good balance between performance and price. If you did went for the 7950 (the next best bang for bucks cards in line) instead, I don't think you would get or notice the extra performance with your current CPU.

Your PSU shouldn't be a limitation at all, so long as you went for a single GPU graphic card.

 

[Bromhead]

+1, I think for that particular cpu, no more than a 7850 unless you plan on upgrading to something like an i5 at some point

 

[Martini1991]

Sometime like a 7850 would do. I wouldn't go for faster and more expensive card than that considering the CPU.

7850 would bottleneck quite a substantial amount at times.
My brother has a 7850 with his pentium (He had a 6850) and he's waiting for some reason to upgrade his CPU.

 

[Marine-RX179]

7850 would bottleneck quite a substantial amount at times.
My brother has a 7850 with his pentium (He had a 6850) and he's waiting for some reason to upgrade his CPU.

I'm well awared of that (my mate's i3 2120 is would bottleneck his GTX560Ti at times, and the GTX560Ti is slower than the 7950). But it's just that there's not really a card worth getting below 7850 if it is for 1920 res gaming, unless OP is prepared to go 2nd hand. But since there's not much can be done for frame rate that's limited by his CPU, the 7850's spare GPU usage would mean he got more headroom for increasing graphic details lol

 

[PaulMTC]

I'm well awared of that (my mate's i3 2120 is would bottleneck his GTX560Ti at times, and the GTX560Ti is slower than the 7950). But it's just that there's not really a card worth getting below 7850 if it is for 1920 res gaming, unless OP is prepared to go 2nd hand. But since there's not much can be done for frame rate that's limited by his CPU, the 7850's spare GPU usage would mean he got more headroom for increasing graphic details lol

How does it make a difference going second hand? Are there cards available second hand that are better for my setup that are not available new.

Also I'm interested to understand more about what you are saying about the spare GPU usage of the 7850 - can you explain more ?

Thanks a lot for you help

 

[Martini1991]

Well you could get a 6850 for like 50 quid I guess.
Brand new you can get 7770's for 80 quid.
What he means be spare GPU usage, is since you won't be pushing your 7850 to the maximum (Some situations you'll be lucky to push it 60%) you've got a bit left in the tank.