Recommendations on a used card for an older system

[Coquito]

System has pci & pci-e 16 slots. 400w power supply. Core 2 Duo. Currently have a nividia 8400gs.

Ideas? I haven't been in the game for years & have no idea what's available or what is a fair price. Looking to spend less then $50. I've just been gaming on minimum settings, & want to at least make my experience more bearable.


Thank you.

 

[crazzy.heartz]

With a core 2 duo & 400W power supply; an AMD 5750/6750 would be sufficient to bring your old system to life.

btw, is that a branded power supply or a generic one that came bundled with your PC?

 

[SPBHM]

8400GS is really slow (slower than a 5450 with its 80SPs, the 5770 have 800), any 5770/5750 1GB GDDR5 is a huge upgrade... also consider the 7750 GDDR5, around the same but with lower power usage


but Core 2 Duo is not a good description of your CPU, it could be a 1.8GHz with 2MB l2 cache or a 3.3GHz with 6MB l2 or something in between.

if you want something from Nvidia I wouldn't recommend going lower than the GTS 450/GTX 550 Ti/GTX 650

 

[SlickR12345]

For $50 you could go for AMD R7 240 has 2GB DDR3

If you want something with GDDR5 you could go for 5750

 

[Zardnok]

I paired a 6870 with a C2 Q6600 @ 3.4 for a while and it was not CPU limited. You can pick up a 6850 from ebay for $50-60 and pair it up with your C2D and blow that old 8400 away, especially if you are able to OC the C2D any.

 

[crazzy.heartz]

I paired a 6870 with a C2 Q6600 @ 3.4 for a while and it was not CPU limited. You can pick up a 6850 from ebay for $50-60 and pair it up with your C2D and blow that old 8400 away, especially if you are able to OC the C2D any.

3+ Ghz C2Q is a still a valid gaming CPU (single player). C2D's are not. 6850 would be bottlenecked unless Coquito has a 3+Ghz wolfdale C2D.

Also, 6850 would use more power and trying to OC CPU would further strain that 400W power supply.

 

[Coquito]

Sorry for the late reply. PC was down installing some minor things. CPU is a 1.8 c2d. Power supply is actually a 500w FSP. I think it was $80ish & came recommended back in the day. A friend is giving me a 1gb gtx460 for a song. Hopefully it wont melt my pc.

Cheers.

 

[Zardnok]

At 1.8, no matter what you roll with you will be CPU limited. I would save up $200ish and surf the FS/FT forums for a new mobo-cpu-mem combo from someone looking to upgrade to Devils Canyon.