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New graphics card for E6500

radtechtips

radtechtips

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I have a C2D E6500 2.93 ghz with 4 or 5gb of 667 DDR2. What would be a good graphics card that wouldnt be to bottled necked by the cpu.
This will be used for light gaming, ie minecraft and ksp, on the tv,by my little brothers. It will also be used as a light game server. HDMI would be preferable, but it must have that or vga. My budget is under 80 usd but i might be able to go to 100

Cliffs
:under 100
:HDMI or vga
:light gaming on tv
:light game server(ssh access)

Thanks!
 
radtechtips said:
I have a C2D E6500 2.93 ghz with 4 or 5gb of 667 DDR2. What would be a good graphics card that wouldnt be to bottled necked by the cpu.
This will be used for light gaming, ie minecraft and ksp, on the tv,by my little brothers. It will also be used as a light game server. HDMI would be preferable, but it must have that or vga. My budget is under 80 usd but i might be able to go to 100

Cliffs
:under 100
:HDMI or vga
:light gaming on tv
:light game server(ssh access)

Thanks!
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My E4400 @ 3.3 ghz was heavily bottle-necking my 460 GTX 768mB, so you would need something of that calibre or lower.

Here are listings of 460

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...titude+-"PLEASE+READ"+-Parts+-8400GS&_sacat=0

Looks like they start at 70 USD shipped.

Here's a good chart to help you choose a GPU

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU12/457

Choose anything there that's cheaper than a 460 or choose a 460
 
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radtechtips said:
That 7770 with games looks like a.good deal
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Please note that a Geforce 4xx or 5xx series will be less CPU bottle-necked than a Geforce 6xx or Radeon HD 4xxx, 5xxx, 6xxx, 7xxx series.

This is because of how much of the GPU scheduling work is offloaded to the CPU.
 
radtechtips said:
That 7770 with games looks like a.good deal
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Yup, with the deal currently live its a no brainer, but then again as I said check for the rest of the stuff as well like your power supply & case dimensions & if the GPU wouldn't be an obstacle for say a sound card. If you don't have any of those problems then the HD 7770 GHz edition is a steal at that price !
 
R0H1T said:
Yup, with the deal currently live its a no brainer but then again as I said check for the rest of the stuff as well like your power supply & case dimensions & if the GPU wouldn't be an obstacle for say a sound card.
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Thats what i was thinking
 
radtechtips said:
Thats what i was thinking
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Yes if you plan on re-using it later as you state then the 7770 will definitely make a good add-in card to toss around builds that need to do youtube and htpc stuff later without the power requirements of something like the 460
 
Communism said:
Yes if you plan on re-using it later as you state then the 7770 will definitely make a good add-in card to toss around builds that need to do youtube and htpc stuff later without the power requirements of something like the 460
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Thats the plane. I have a rig with a 4570k and a 7950 and 16 gb so im.good for the hardcore.stuff

EDIT: 3570k
 
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I just realized that my mobo is only ADD2, PCIeX1, and PCI, and i dont want to upgrade to a 775 motherboard. ADD2 and PCIeX16 arent compatible right?
 
Best card for you is 460 GTX or 9800GT ....which is much cheaper like 50 bucks. 460 100 to 120 dollars. gl And get EVGA cuz they pownz imo
 
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