Dayz buget video card?

[BarkingGhostar]

It has been a long decade of not playing video games. I was looking at the Dayz video recommendations, which were GTX 560 or Radeon 7750, 1GB VRAM. I think these requirements might be dated as these lines of cards seem to be close to EOL.

Anyone playing this game and using a budget card? It would be nice to keep it under a $100. Yeah, I could afford a lot more, but I'd rather spend it elsewhere.

BTW, I would be dropping this into an i7 4770K, 16GB RAM with SSD, which I presently use the Intel onboard graphics to drive a 27" 1920x1200 television/monitor.




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[nurturedhate]

You are more than likely looking for something along the lines of an AMD 260x, 265 or an Nvidia 750 at that $100 price point. Anything less than those really aren't considered actual gaming cards as that segment moves more towards HTPC stuff and the performance really starts to tank. I know you don't want to spend more than $100 but at this moment the sweet spot is to find a 7950/280 (they are the same card) at the $150 price range. The performance is a massive jump up from anything you can find at $100. You can also try to find an AMD 270/270x in the $120-130 range and that would be a good deal also.

There is also the used market. Might be good to check the for sale forum here.

 

[Tweak155]

I have a Galaxy 560 TI 448 laying around (similar to a 570) that I could hook you up with for a decent price... I was saving it as a test card or possibly to toss into another PC, but decided not to.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162090

How about $50 shipped?

 

[Headfoot]

You can find HD 7950's for $100 used on this very forum. Quite a solid card for $100

 

[Stuka87]

You can find HD 7950's for $100 used on this very forum. Quite a solid card for $100

Very hard to beat for a priceerformance ratio.

 

[frozentundra123456]

What is your PSU? Is this a comp you built yourself?

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Is it just me or did AMD cards just get their prices hiked on newegg? Everything I'm seeing that I researched a couple months ago when I bought my 270 went up by $30 or more. New prices are ridiculous. My 270 was $129... 280s are $180 and up...

 

[thujone]

the in game video settings make this game playable on almost any card... i can actually run it on the onboard video on my motherboard while my gpu is out for rma

 

[boozzer]

Is it just me or did AMD cards just get their prices hiked on newegg? Everything I'm seeing that I researched a couple months ago when I bought my 270 went up by $30 or more. New prices are ridiculous. My 270 was $129... 280s are $180 and up...

prices go up when the stocks run low. especially with new gpus coming out = no stock replenishment.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Not looking to buy used, but like I said, I can afford more. I just want to play the game, using sufficient resolution on a 1920x1200 screen to make it look like a game from 2000. I'm guessing the GTX 600's are the next level up for nVidia, but what about AMD?

 

[Yuriman]

My brother recently picked up a lightly used 660 Ti for $100, and was eye'ing a 280 for ~$120. If you're good with secondhand cards, that's about where the scaling starts.

 

[Spanners]

R9 270X
R9 270
GTX 660
R7 265
GTX 750ti
R7 260x

Top to bottom in order of performance (roughly), mostly over $100 sorry but they are my suggestions. Not necessarily the best/cheapest "edition" of each card but just a quick search.