Best AMD vid card for this mobo

[evilphantomx]

Been out of the computer game for a while and am looking to do an upgrade on a system that was given to me.

The mobo is an ASUS M3A78-em with an AMD Phenom 9750 cpu

Money is tight to do this but I need a better video card til I can build be a better system.

So recommendations?

 

[MustISO]

Budget?

I'd look at a used card, maybe a GTX 670/770 or R9 270X/280X

 

[Headfoot]

id just get a used 7950 since they are about $100 and its not really worth going above or below that. You can get slower stuff used out there but youll only save a couple bucks to do so. To step up over the 7950 would probably be wasted power given the 9750 phenom I.

If you cant find a 7950, a used 7850 2gb/7870/gtx760/r7 265/r7 270/r7 270x/gtx 670 would be a decent card around 50-75$

 

[evilphantomx]

alright,that gives me an idea where to start.
thanks

 

[RussianSensation]

Used HD7950/7970 or wait for a deal on a GTX960 for $120.

 

[evilphantomx]

Yea....sorry I was a little vague as to budget.....as always as cheap as i can at the moment but the $100-120 range will probably be about my limit right now.

What I was also wondering about was compatibility with this mobo.
I'm still not up to speed with the current standards(My last major vid upgrade was to a gtx 8800 so I drooped out with PCIe x16 as the newest thing) Now there is PCI Express 3.0 x16 and I need a quick catch up on what's new.

 

[RussianSensation]

Yea....sorry I was a little vague as to budget.....as always as cheap as i can at the moment but the $100-120 range will probably be about my limit right now.

What I was also wondering about was compatibility with this mobo.
I'm still not up to speed with the current standards(My last major vid upgrade was to a gtx 8800 so I drooped out with PCIe x16 as the newest thing) Now there is PCI Express 3.0 x16 and I need a quick catch up on what's new.

Your motherboard supports 1 x PCIe x16 (Support PCIe 2.0)

For comparison purposes, since your budget is $100-120, the fastest card you can possible afford is a used HD7950/HD7970 or 670, etc.

For this level of GPUs, the performance loss between PCIe 2.0 x16 (like your motherboard has) is 0-1% compared to PCIe 3.0 x16:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Ivy_Bridge_PCI-Express_Scaling/23.html

Going all the way up to a GTX980, it's still only 2% at 1080P:

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GTX_980_PCI-Express_Scaling/21.html

Your CPU is by far going to be the bottleneck here, not the PCIe 2.0 x16 bus.

So used HD7950/7970 or GTX670/680 or if you want new, GTX750Ti for $110.