740gt or 250x?

[carnby77]

Hi my current graphics card is 9500gt.
I would like ti upgrade it to either radeon 250x or 750 series nvidia.

I would like to play games like advanced warfare and assasins creed.

I have athlon x2 270 3.4ghz.with 8gb ram.

Any suggestions.?

 

[Bateluer]

Your thread title says '740GT' and the body says '750 series'. The 750 should be faster, and more expensive, than a 740, but its hard to find reliable benchmarks for the 740. Anandtech's Bench has numbers for the R7 250X though.

Something to consider as well, that's a dual core CPU you've got. Doesn't Assassin's Creed Unity pretty much require a quad core? I know its poorly optimized, but several high profile games have outright struck dual cores from their requirements.

 

[carnby77]

Hi.. My cpu is actually athlon 2 x2, the quad core version.

 

[Bateluer]

Hi.. My cpu is actually athlon 2 x2, the quad core version.

The X2 branding means its a dual core. Quad core variants use the X4 branding.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hi.. My cpu is actually athlon 2 x2, the quad core version.

The X2 branding means its a dual core. Quad core variants use the X4 branding.

LOL. Yeah... that's a dual-core. Sorry to disappoint.

 

[Bateluer]

OP,

I think any video card upgrade you do is going to struggle with 2014/2015 games. An R7 250X will be a nice upgrade from your 9500GT, but it'll still struggle with modern games.

If you want a stop gap, because you're clearly on a budget here, this R7 250X is 60 dollars after MIR and includes the Never Settle Space Edition Bronze, single free game.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131559

Its my opinion that you shouldn't drop too much money into propping up a dual core based system. Take the stop gap and save for a more effective upgrade later.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Your thread title says '740GT' and the body says '750 series'. The 750 should be faster, and more expensive, than a 740, but its hard to find reliable benchmarks for the 740. Anandtech's Bench has numbers for the R7 250X though.

The GDDR5 version of the GT740 is essentially a slightly lower clocked GTX650 (993MHz vs 1058MHz), so if you subtract a bit from that, it'll make things easier.

Its my opinion that you shouldn't drop too much money into propping up a dual core based system. Take the stop gap and save for a more effective upgrade later.

I'm going to agree with that.