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Kledgie

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I'm looking for a video card I can slap in my 220w powered system. I do play a few games - browser based like MapleStory, and old school ones like diablo 2.

Any ideas, let me know. Thanks.
 
For light and older games you would play, GTX750Ti is one of the lowest, GTX950, or you can get older cards like the HD7850 (or R7 260), or such and still capable.

My HD5770 is old but still does the job in some games, even Planetside 2, and sips power.
 
TeknoBug said:
For light and older games you would play, GTX750Ti is one of the lowest, GTX950, or you can get older cards like the HD7850 (or R7 260), or such and still capable.

My HD5770 is old but still does the job in some games, even Planetside 2, and sips power.
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No kidding. OK. thanks a lot.

I forgot to mention that the card has to be PCIE 2.0 x 16
 
If the power draw really is that low, is it going to be single slot with no power connectors? Or did they already mention that and I've just forgotten?
 
Kledgie said:
I'm looking for a video card I can slap in my 220w powered system. I do play a few games - browser based like MapleStory, and old school ones like diablo 2.

Any ideas, let me know. Thanks.
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I am curious, what is the exact system you got?
I am curious as you what CPU you got, and also what PSU is it as well? Just because it says it is 220W, don't mean it can actually handle that load.
 
Elixer said:
I am curious, what is the exact system you got?
I am curious as you what CPU you got, and also what PSU is it as well? Just because it says it is 220W, don't mean it can actually handle that load.
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AMD E240 1.5GHz
16gb ram
Hitachi 300gb hdd
Thermaltake Element Qi 220w mini-ITX psu
 
Kledgie said:
AMD E240 1.5GHz
16gb ram
Hitachi 300gb hdd
Thermaltake Element Qi 220w mini-ITX psu
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Sorry... but better to sell it. The E 240 is a single core, no? Sell it and buy at least an Athlon 5150 with ASUS AM1 board or a Intel Pentium J2900 based board if you can't afford any Celeron Haswell on the worst.

The RX 460 and even the GTX 750 is way overkill for them...

And even the theorical GTX 1050 and 1040 or the RX 450 will be much more for it.
 
dark zero said:
Sorry... but better to sell it. The E 240 is a single core, no? Sell it and buy at least an Athlon 5150 with ASUS AM1 board or a Intel Pentium J2900 based board if you can't afford any Celeron Haswell on the worst.

The RX 460 and even the GTX 750 is way overkill for them...

And even the theorical GTX 1050 and 1040 or the RX 450 will be much more for it.
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Yeahp, single core. What's the best ati card I could use on this system? SOmething like this?
https://www.amazon.com/EAX1650PRO-Gamer-RADEON-X1650PRO-256MB/dp/B015C27KDA/ref=sr_1_18?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1467245857&sr=1-18&keywords=ati+pcie+gpu&refinements=p_n_feature_keywords_four_browse-bin%3A6030981011%2Cp_n_condition-type%3A2224371011
 
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Can confirm my GTX 750Ti is a low power consumption / "high performance" beast. As a standard bearer for minimum video card. Plays WoW maxed out at 1080p.

Some modern games like Black Desert suffer though.
 
Jaskalas said:
Can confirm my GTX 750Ti is a low power consumption / "high performance" beast. As a standard bearer for minimum video card. Plays WoW maxed out at 1080p.

Some modern games like Black Desert suffer though.
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thanks jask. I got my sights on one I think.
 
what is the point of a 750 ti in your system? the games you mentioned like Diablo 2 are not going to benefit from it, and something like Diablo 3 will remain unplayable...
I also don't think this CPU is viable for current WoW


I was being generous with 2005, the E-240 will be badly beaten by Athlon 64s from 2003

you would be better buying a new CPU+MB with OK IGP.
 
SPBHM said:
what is the point of a 750 ti in your system? the games you mentioned like Diablo 2 are not going to benefit from it, and something like Diablo 3 will remain unplayable...
I also don't think this CPU is viable for current WoW


I was being generous with 2005, the E-240 will be badly beaten by Athlon 64s from 2003

you would be better buying a new CPU+MB with OK IGP.
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to recommend one to go with the e-240 is what I'm asking.
 
Kledgie said:
to recommend one to go with the e-240 is what I'm asking.
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I recommend using the integrated graphics, or if you need extra video outputs or something, get a card as cheap as possible (like GT 710), a 750 ti is a huge waste of money for that CPU, as I said, a new CPU and using integrated graphics will give you a lot more for your money.
 
Go for GT730 gddr5.I have one and It can play Rise of Tomb Raider but with your cpu you should stick with older games.Consumes only 25W and performs as fast as HD7730.
 
Kledgie said:
thanks jask. I got my sights on one I think.
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GTX950 is similar to 750Ti but newer and a bit more efficient in perf/watt, a touch more expensive though. I'm using a 750Ti for now until I'm ready to get a new GPU (most likely that AMD RX 480) since my GTX960 died. The card has no problems playing most of my games, ARK is one of the few that chokes but it's a very poorly optimized game anyways- I tweaked graphics settings and removed the HDMI audio driver which improves performance somehow.

teehee the E240 single core, who the hell uses single core systems these days ouch.
 
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