What graphics card should i go with?

aaron777 · Oct 17, 2013

Im looking at some graphics cards but im not sure what the best deal is for my money I want one that can play games on medium to highest settings budget is $150 im looking at this but im not very educated on graphics cards I have no idea what the 1gb means nor what the stream processors mean please help me find a good one

Powercooler 1gb oc Radeon 7790
http://http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131491

Specs:

ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M FM2 AMD MB

AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Quad-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7660D

Kingston Hyper X beast (2x4Gb) 1600Htz RAM

Western Digital 7200RPM 1TB HDD

Windows 7 ultamte 64bit

rolandzhang3 · Oct 17, 2013

At the very least I would recommend a 7850 2GB (also comes with 2 games)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131472
or a 660 (after rebates)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500270
What's your power supply though?

SWEETMUSK · Oct 17, 2013

GTX660 WILL be the best chose for $150
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130826

GTX660>GTX650TI BOOST>>AMD HD7790
GTX650TI BOOST 〉= AMD HD7850

GTX650TI BOOST 1GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127731
GTX650TI BOOST 2GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121728

rolandzhang3 · Oct 17, 2013

It's worth the extra money to go for the 2gb card
If you can pay a little extra ($160 after rebate)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127722

aaron777 · Oct 17, 2013

SWEETMUSK :

what makes these better than the one I chose?

rolandzhang3 · Oct 17, 2013

What's your power supply? that would help determine what's best for you :|
Well for one they have more memory for the most part (1gb is not enough for games these days)
and overall they perform much better in games, the 7790 is about as powerful as a gtx 560 from a few years back

For example, 660 vs 7790 this is the performance gap
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/776?vs=783

aaron777 · Oct 17, 2013

rolandzhang3 :

I have a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139013

rolandzhang3 · Oct 17, 2013

That is a beast power supply xD, that can handle any card pretty much

aaron777 · Oct 17, 2013

rolandzhang3 :

yeah I figured that's why I got it

rolandzhang3 · Oct 17, 2013

Are you thinking of going crossfire or SLI sometime though?
Either way now the power supply is out of the way any of those cards should work pretty well for you in games
If you're thinking about BF4 then a 660 or 7870 would be the way to go

aaron777 · Oct 17, 2013

what about this card would it be a good one? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121651

aaron777 · Oct 17, 2013

rolandzhang3 :

well maybe because idk what crossfire is

aaron777 · Oct 17, 2013

rolandzhang3 :

funny thing was I bought a 430watt corsair and my system wasn't booting then I realized im a idiot bc just my processor used almost 200 according to newegg lol

rolandzhang3 · Oct 17, 2013

crossfire is pairing two amd cards together (may have some stuttering problems though), and lol 200? my goodness

aaron777 · Oct 17, 2013

rolandzhang3 :

so that asus 7850 wuld that be a good choice?

rolandzhang3 · Oct 17, 2013

Haha I wouldn't recommending crossfire if you don't want to fiddle around with settings to get games to run properly. The 7850 would be a good choice, check this benchmark and decide if the 7870 is worth the extra cash over the 7850
once again if you're thinking of BF4, they recommended a 7870

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7870-review-benchmark,3148-6.html
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/778?vs=857

This one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127722

Roger Rogers-1382392 · Oct 18, 2013

Get an AMD card if you are not thinking of buying a fantastic quality 3D Asus monitor any time soon. If not, go for GTX

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