Which Cuda card to purchase.

[ironk]

Looking to upgrade a 6600GT pci-e to a card that supports Cuda in the $50 range. Just going to be using it for basic desktop use and some moderate gaming and encoding.

Found a ZOTAC ZT-50604-10L GeForce GT 520 at newegg which came out to be quite cheap after rebate, but don't like the Zotac brand.

Also, fan noise is really important. Don't want a fanless either, but a quite fan is a must.

 

[Jaydip]

What about this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130632

 

[ironk]

Anyone done encoding with Cuda before? I am rethinking purchasing one due to this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=cuda+bad+quality

 

[Jaydip]

QuickSync is ur key if u care about transcoding.Though the CUDA transcoding has been improved on Kepler.

 

[nenforcer]

At that price range I like the DirectX 10.1 GT 240 w/ GDDR5 memory

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130723

If you need DirectX 11 support then I like the GT 440 GDDR5 but it costs about $25 more.