video card for minecraft, had a 8800gs that died

[Bman123]

The wife's friends son was using a 8800gs that died out. Looking for a cheap card that will run minecraft better then the old card.

It's a old tower with a asus p5n e-sli s775 board, i have no clue what cpu it is because i can't get video signal out to check and i have no paste to take off the heat sink and physically check the cpu.

it could be a pentium d for all i know in here. The kid didn't complain about the game not playing good just that the video card was shot and it is

The psu has 20 a on the 12v rail and 1 6 pin connector

any suggestions on what card to get that would be better then the old 8800gs? Obviously cheaper is better here as I know they don't have much to spend on this the kid just wants to play minecraft.


thanks in advance

 

[nsafreak]

An R7 265 or a GTX 750 should be fine.

 

[tweakboy]

Grab a 9800 GT and give her a little OC... gb

 

[coercitiv]

any suggestions on what card to get that would be better then the old 8800gs? Obviously cheaper is better here as I know they don't have much to spend on this the kid just wants to play minecraft.

One primitive but still effective way to look at it would be to note memory bandwidth of current card and go for something that uses at least that. The 8800GS had about 40GB/s and the faster 8800GT had around 60GB/s. A modern card using DDR5 and 128bit bus has at least 70GB/s, so if you filter them by this standard you should end up with cards that are more than capable of running Minecraft at high settings.

I would set my low bar at something like R7 240 or GeForce GT 640, and see what deals are available for something a stronger.

Back in October 2014, Anandtech recommended the R7 260 as the best card under $100 and R7 265 for 150$.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

The 7790/260x will do fine. You'll see fps in the hundereds excluding a CPU bottleneck. Even a gt610 or r4 230 will play it fine. Very non-demanding.

 

[bzb_Elder]

Mojang says: GPU (Discrete): Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT or AMD Radeon HD 2400 with OpenGL 3.1

Something like this GT 730 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...81&ignorebbr=1 for $55 should be plenty to handle Minecraft.

 

[Bman123]

It has to be a used card I get for them to keep the cost down. Thanks for ideas

 

[Bubbleawsome]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00FW5...-QL&ref=plSrch
That'll do fine.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

Take your pick, these cards should be cheap on the used market:

Geforce:
9600GT, 9800GT, 9800GTX, GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 275
GTS 450, GTX 460, GTX 550, GTX 560, GTX 650, GTX 660, GT 740, GTX 750

Radeon:
HD 3850, HD 3870, HD 4670, HD 4770, HD 4850, HD 4870
HD 5570, HD 5670, HD 5750, HD 5770, HD 6570, HD 6670, HD 6750, HD 6770, HD 6850, HD 6870
HD 7750, HD 7770, HD 7790 HD 7850, HD 7870
R7 250x, R7 260, R7 260x, R9 270, R9 270x

 

[cmdrdredd]

Would a 9600GT really be enough? I have one in the box.