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Hi - new here and first question:

Have just bought a new PC and had to keep the budget down so specced it without a video card, intending to use my existing one. However I think it may be under-specced for the system.

I'm only a light gamer, bit of Minecraft, COD, etc, but looking for something that'll run "average" games at a high-ish quality.

System:

MSI A75MA-E35 AMD FM2 uATX Motherboard
AMD A10 X4 5800K Black Ed Quad Cored 3.8Ghz CPU (with AMD HD 7660D GPU)
8GB 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM
400W PSU.

I don't want to spend more than £100 if I can help it - what would you guys recommend?

EDIT: Forgot to say - the card I have and have put in for now is a GeForce 9500GT 1GB - is that rubbish now?

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brykins said:
Hi - new here and first question:

Have just bought a new PC and had to keep the budget down so specced it without a video card, intending to use my existing one. However I think it may be under-specced for the system.

I'm only a light gamer, bit of Minecraft, COD, etc, but looking for something that'll run "average" games at a high-ish quality.

System:

MSI A75MA-E35 AMD FM2 uATX Motherboard
AMD A10 X4 5800K Black Ed Quad Cored 3.8Ghz CPU (with AMD HD 7660D GPU)
8GB 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM
400W PSU.

I don't want to spend more than £100 if I can help it - what would you guys recommend?

EDIT: Forgot to say - the card I have and have put in for now is a GeForce 9500GT 1GB - is that rubbish now?


why dont you try the built in graphics of yout A10 cpu? it is much better than a 9500gt.

GTX 650ti- http://www.amazon.co.uk/EVGA-GTX-650Ti-Graphics-Card/dp... , http://www.amazon.co.uk/EVGA-GeForce-GDDR5-Graphics-Car... (Only 88 pounds!) or 7770- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-Vapor-X-Radeon-Graphic... 7850 (A little off budget but well worth it)- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-Radeon-HD-7850-Dual-X/...

These cards will destroy your 9500GT and 7660D

Synthetics- http://www.hwcompare.com/13759/geforce-9500-gt-ddr2-vs-...
http://www.hwcompare.com/12005/geforce-9500-gt-ddr2-vs-...
http://www.hwcompare.com/13798/geforce-gtx-650-ti-2gb-v...
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brykins said:
iam2thecrowe said:
why dont you try the built in graphics of yout A10 cpu? it is much better than a 9500gt.


Is it? I sort of assumed that all "on board" graphics would be worse. I'll give it a go.

It won't be the best but it should be around GTS 250 range.
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