single core processor graphics card recommendation

klarivie · Jul 11, 2014

First of all, I come to Tom's Hardware for all my questionsand I usually find my answer in these forums. You guys do a great job. This is a bit of a specific question so I need to ask.

I am trying to revive my old rig with dual 3.2 Xeon processors on a supermicro x6dae-g2 motherboard. I am upgrading the ram from 2gb to 6gb of ddr2 400 and I have windows 7 64bit installed. I also have a 650w PSU.

My old graphics card was ATI Radeon x1900 xtx. I am looking for a decent replacement that will give me a boost in graphics without too much bottlenecking.

I am willing to spend around 50 to 60 for the new card.

Thanks in advance.

Iron124 · Jul 11, 2014

$50-$60 is a small budget for a graphics card. The best you're gonna get is an R7 240 really. http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeon-PCI-Express-Graphics-11216-00-20G/dp/B00DR3M050/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1405113191&sr=1-1&keywords=r7+240

clutchc · Jul 11, 2014

At 3.2 GHZ, it should be able to keep up with a R7-250 or GT-640. Most multi-threaded games are not all that well threaded anyway. They usually cause 1 or 2 cores to do most of the work.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600473873%20600337485&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20

If you don't want to spend that much, drop down to the GT 630/R7-240

bambiboom · Jul 11, 2014

klarivie,

Surely you don't want to replace the legendary ATI Radeon X1900 ! See >

http://www.memory4less.com/m4l_itemdetail.aspx?itemid=1440442278&partno=100-714800&rid=1

< where an X1900 is for sale for $2,459.- marked down from $3.514.

Seems a bit expensive for a 2006 card with 256MB. Perhaps that's a different card.

You didn't mention what the system is used for, but you might consider a used GTX , especially the 650. There have been a number of Ebahh sales recently of a new 2GB, 384-bit model for very little - about $35.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-384Bit-GeForce-GTX650-DDR3-2GB-PCI-Express3-0-x-16-HDMI-Graphics-Card-/310989659556?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item48686d9da4

- a completed sale for $30 with $20 shipping. Not sure what the story is on those- seems very inexpensive.

As you have a healthy PSU, you might also look for a GTX 285 which is one of the rare 512-bit cards- and 150W. There's a 2GB one also. I used a 1GB EVGA in a dual processor Dell Precision T5400 with very good results. I'd have kept it except two workstation programs that demanded a Quadro /Firepro.

Cheers,

Bambiboom

nforce4max · Jul 11, 2014

^WTH lol response

Just about any budget card will work with that board and if you do anything taxing such as games then go for a R240.

klarivie · Jul 18, 2014

Thank you for all the answers guys!

I did some research before I saw all the answers and landed on the geforce 9600 gt 512mb. It had a bit better specs than the old card and I guess most important was the same memory bandwidth of 256-bit. Most of the others only had 64-bit. Does this matter? Should I return the 9600GT and go with a more modern card with more RAM and lower bandwidth?

Bambiboom, will the 384 bit card you suggested bottleneck my processor?

I did forget to mention in the first post that the rig will be used for photo editing in Lightroom and lght to moderate gaming.

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