Looking For A Cheapish Graphics Card

Vic Vinegar

As title says, i'm looking for a better graphics card for my system, preferably around €100 - €130 (not much i know)

I currently have the ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU 1GB DDR5, it plays most games on medium settings but looking for an upgrade.

Was looking at a Radeon R9 270 Asus R9270-DC2OC on Adverts for a decent price, but i'd probably prefer to get a new one really (I like warranties!)

Rest of system specs:

Asus M5A97 R2.0
Athlon II X3 435 (needs upgrading soon also)
Geil 8GB DDR3 PC3-12800
128GB SSD
1TB HDD
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Fan
OCZ ZS Series 650W PSU
Xonar DG 5.1 Soundcard

What would be a good upgrade that will run games on pretty good settings?

Digital Solitude

A R9 270 can be gotten new from Hardwareversand for €160 delivered. It'll be an upgrade, but the card you have is better than most at that price range

Vic Vinegar

Digital Solitude wrote: »

A R9 270 can be gotten new from Hardwareversand for €160 delivered. It'll be an upgrade, but the card you have is better than most at that price range

Cheers, I could look at upgrading the CPU first. Might get an FX6300 or something.

Digital Solitude

FX-6300 is €100 on hwvs, Don't know where you buy from, but dabs don't have any so I'd use it as the benchmark for pricing
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Vic Vinegar

Digital Solitude wrote: »

FX-6300 is €100 on hwvs, Don't know where you buy from, but dabs don't have any so I'd use it as the benchmark for pricing
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Cheapest i've seen it is on the Spanish Amazon, it's €111 including shipping, i've never used Hardwareversand, i don't like their awkward payment options, like to just pay with Visa or Paypal.

Digital Solitude

hwvs use paypal, comes to €112. Use Amazon in that case

Vic Vinegar

Digital Solitude wrote: »

hwvs use paypal, comes to €112. Use Amazon in that case

Ah, i was sure you could only pay on HWVS via bank transfer. When did that change?

Digital Solitude

I haven't a clue to be honest, I haven't been using them for long but PayPal was always there for me. There is a 3% charge via PayPal however

TerrorFirmer

CEX sell the R9 270X for 140 and it comes with 12 month warranty.

Definitely get a new processor first as that one will be a severe bottleneck in most games - it would bottleneck the 6850 even in quite a few games.

Also consider going Intel, Am3 is a dead end platform, you could get a Pentium Anniversary G3258 + basic H81 board for a similar price to a Fx6300 on its own. Stellar performer for the money, overclocks very well, and gives you tons of future upgrade potential with the latest Intel socket.

It's what I would do, and on top of that you should get 50-60 back from your old motherboard/X3 cpu so the net cost would only be about 50-60.

Vic Vinegar

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

CEX sell the R9 270X for 140 and it comes with 12 month warranty.

Definitely get a new processor first as that one will be a severe bottleneck in most games - it would bottleneck the 6850 even in quite a few games.

Also consider going Intel, Am3 is a dead end platform, you could get a Pentium Anniversary G3258 + basic H81 board for a similar price to a Fx6300 on its own. Stellar performer for the money, overclocks very well, and gives you tons of future upgrade potential with the latest Intel socket.

It's what I would do, and on top of that you should get 50-60 back from your old motherboard/X3 cpu so the net cost would only be about 50-60.

Might be worth trying that. Can the G3258 be nicely overclocked even on a cheapo H81 board?

Digital Solitude

Vic Vinegar wrote: »

Might be worth trying that. Can the G3258 be nicely overclocked even on a cheapo H81 board?

Can be pretty easily overclocked to 4.0gHz on a decent board, not sure the exact ins and outs of overclocking though