needs a little help

[Morlean]

what is the best graphics card i can get to work with my newly built platform. i3 2100 sandy bridge @ 3.2ghz, P8P67 LE v 3.0 motherboard, DDR3, windows 32 bit. Corsair xms3 6gigs of ram. coolmax 550w powersupply.

 

[Stuka87]

Well any current card will work in there, all the way up to a GTX-680. But your CPU is underpowered for that card.

I would say to go with something like an HD7850.

But what is your price range, and what games do you play?


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[chimaxi83]

6GB RAM is a bit useless with 32 bit OS, need 64 bit to utilize more than 3.5-4GB or so.

How much are you looking to spend? There is a template at the top of this forum you will need to fill out before you get any useful advice here.

 

[Fallengod]

Hmmm, kind of hard to say. Depends on what you plan doing with it.

The "best", well that is a subjective term so..... Define "best" and I might be able to recommend something.

Also, why the hell the windows 32 bit? You realize you can only utilize 3.5gb of memory on a non-64bit system right? There is really no reason to use a 32bit OS these days.

 

[Morlean]

looking to spent about $100

 

[toyota]

you need to list your resolution.

"windows 32 bit"

is that XP, Vista or 7? and 32 bit days are over for anything more than very basic computers.

 

[pcm81]

6GB RAM is a bit useless with 32 bit OS, need 64 bit to utilize more than 3.5-4GB or so.

How much are you looking to spend? There is a template at the top of this forum you will need to fill out before you get any useful advice here.

32bit tops at 3.25GB of actual usable RAM.

 

[Morlean]

well 100 bucks and a little gaming like skyrime was my first platform build and i was under the impression that 32 bit was more stable.

 

[pcm81]

looking to spent about $100

Any ATI card with model number that starts with 7 or any Nvidia card with model number that starts with 6 which is in your price range...

 

[Fallengod]

I guess its kind of late now, but you definitely should have gone with 64bit.... Its the same thing really, but 64bit allows for significantly more memory usage.

First off, Skyrim is fairly non-demanding game. I pull quite decent FPS on my 5770 in that game. With that said, in Nvidia land a GTX 460 or GTX 550ti are decent in the $100 category and a 6850 would be a good buy at $100 as well. Any AMD card you can find around the area of a 6850 for $100.

 

[toyota]

well 100 bucks and a little gaming like skyrime was my first platform build and i was under the impression that 32 bit was more stable.

so its Windows 7? if so then it thought that both 64 bit and 32 bit were included.

and you still did not list resolution.

 

[DominionSeraph]

OP, I'd go for this GTX 460:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130749
$15 off with promo HARDOCPX425C makes it $110 after rebate.

I guess its kind of late now, but you definitely should have gone with 64bit.... Its the same thing really, but 64bit allows for significantly more memory usage.

IIRC the key for Windows 7 is good for either version.

I pull quite decent FPS on my 5770 in that game. With that said, in Nvidia land a GTX 460 or GTX 550ti are decent in the $100 category and a 6850 would be a good buy at $100 as well. Any AMD card you can find around the area of a 6850 for $100.

550 Ti is utter crap compared to the GTX 460, and 6850's are ~$130 after rebate

 

[Fallengod]

Ive seen 6870's lately multiple times for $120-$130AR so....I figured logic would dictate that 6850's would be in the $100AR area now.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Ive seen 6870's lately multiple times for $120-$130AR

No you haven't.

 

[Morlean]

thank you all for the help on my ? on the graphic card for my system again thank you!

 

[toyota]

thank you all for the help on my ? on the graphic card for my system again thank you!

will you please answer the simple questions I have asked you twice already?

 

[Jaydip]

Who told u ur questions were simple?:biggrin: