Alright here's the deal, hoping I can get some third party opinions/options! Thanks so much in advance for any/all info!
I'm running a Geforce 9500GT card at the moment. I want to upgrade, but not sure what my best option(s) is/would be.
I have a 600w psu so I think I'm alright there - I don't want to spend more than maybe 120 (give or take) on the card (new, not refurbished or used). My only other restriction is that the card, and here's the kicker, has to have a VGA port - don't want to chance/go the route of "adapter cords", so it needs to have the VGA port because, sadly enough, I simply don't have it in the budget to buy a new monitor AND a new gpu, and I figure there's a good chance of finding a better GPU than the one that I've got that still supports vga connections.
Some side info I figure I'd mention- running windows 7 (64 bit), my native screen resolution is 1366x768 (convinced that widescreens are the worst waste of space I've ever laid my eyes upon, but that's another story for another day), and I've got 4GB of ram, moving up to my max of 8GB this week.
If anyone has any tips or info they'd like to share, it'd be much appreciated, just browsing at the moment but it's nice to be prepared!
-Thanks-
Afterthought - Running games (barely) such as Skyrim, Arma2, and Planetside2 on low to medium settings, and I'm hurting the most in the texture/opengl/shader processing areas it seems - I figure the RAM upgrade I have planned will help a bit, along with speeding it up in general, but I'd really like to be able to play these on medium settings with more than 15 frames per second - no point in playing at less than around 45-60 in my opinion, though I know some who play Skyrim at 25 frames per second, unimaginable to me, but to each his own.
I'm running a Geforce 9500GT card at the moment. I want to upgrade, but not sure what my best option(s) is/would be.
I have a 600w psu so I think I'm alright there - I don't want to spend more than maybe 120 (give or take) on the card (new, not refurbished or used). My only other restriction is that the card, and here's the kicker, has to have a VGA port - don't want to chance/go the route of "adapter cords", so it needs to have the VGA port because, sadly enough, I simply don't have it in the budget to buy a new monitor AND a new gpu, and I figure there's a good chance of finding a better GPU than the one that I've got that still supports vga connections.
Some side info I figure I'd mention- running windows 7 (64 bit), my native screen resolution is 1366x768 (convinced that widescreens are the worst waste of space I've ever laid my eyes upon, but that's another story for another day), and I've got 4GB of ram, moving up to my max of 8GB this week.
If anyone has any tips or info they'd like to share, it'd be much appreciated, just browsing at the moment but it's nice to be prepared!
-Thanks-
Afterthought - Running games (barely) such as Skyrim, Arma2, and Planetside2 on low to medium settings, and I'm hurting the most in the texture/opengl/shader processing areas it seems - I figure the RAM upgrade I have planned will help a bit, along with speeding it up in general, but I'd really like to be able to play these on medium settings with more than 15 frames per second - no point in playing at less than around 45-60 in my opinion, though I know some who play Skyrim at 25 frames per second, unimaginable to me, but to each his own.