Advice on new graphics card

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
R

RogDee

Honorable
Jan 3, 2014
7
0
10,510
Hi,
Have a Dell XPS 430 pc, was running Win Vista. Just installed Samsung SSD and Windows 8.1 and it is running really well, given it whole new lease of life. Graphics card is an AMD Radeon HD 4670 512Mb ram. Fan on card sounding very 'iffy' and am looking for a cheap replacement. I am not a gamer so don't need anything really fancy! Seen this on Amazon - EVGA GeForce GT 210 1GB DDR3 Graphics Card. No fan, so I guess should be quiet. Will this be at least as good or better than the AMD Radeon that is in at the moment. I don't understand the finer points of all the graphics cards specs if I read them.
Any advice or opinions appreciated.
Thanks.
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
geofelt

geofelt

Titan
Oct 9, 2006
54,295
4,145
174,240
If you are not a gamer, any card will do the job. GT210 would be fine.
It is not as strong as your 4670 for gaming.
Gaming needs fast updating for fluid movement. That takes stronger more capable(and more expensive) cards.
If you have relatively static displays or even HD movies, a minimum capability card will do the job.
A 4670 equivalent performing amd card would be a R7-240.
If you prefer nvidia, a GT240 would be similar.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
M

mikfokido

Honorable
Feb 24, 2013
49
0
10,560
Your not a gamer but what are you then ? Tell us what you need to do whit it.
All not performant cards will be around 30-60 bucks. So you can go with a 5670 (performce really well, not noisy and only 60 watts max, so you will be fine with 350 watt supply, or a good 300watt) other wise a GT 240 will be the same performance and consume almost nothing (don't go wrong with the number or generation here, a 240 is faster than a 440) and a 5670 performs equal to a 3870 or almost two 4670's in crossfire. Better to go with the 5670, because it has DX11! or a 6670 (10 % faster)
If really not in gaming, then to consider a GT 520 is the way to go, as fast than a 4670 in games but 3 generation newer so more up to date gpu and will turn all programs without issues.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom