A cheap improvement on an old Geforce 9500GT please

zakk02001 · Aug 4, 2014

Thank you very much in anticipation of any answers ... you were all brilliant last time I asked a question and I love this forum for its tolerance and fabulous advice.

As the question asks, what could I viably replace an old Geforce 9500GT card with in my old PC that I gave to my kids? Or even, is there any point for a minimal gain in performance?

Specs on machine.

CPU: - AMD Phenom II X4 920
Motherboard: - ASRock K10N78 PCI-E
RAM: - Corsair 4GB DDR2 (333MHz)

Many thanks

Jason

Jay Lavistria · Aug 4, 2014

How much is "cheap"
Lets see the price of your pockets.

heman0286 · Aug 4, 2014

wht kind of a budget r u looking at???? wht kind of a PSU do u have????

zakk02001 · Aug 4, 2014

Sorry!! Thanks for your responses!!

About £60 would be great (~$90)

Can't remember the PSU size but I think it was 500W or 600W, may even have been more. I'll bust it open later to find out exactly but it's doing something atm.

heman0286 · Aug 4, 2014

wht r u goin to use the new gpu for ????

Jay Lavistria · Aug 4, 2014

Yeesh...90 bucks I dont know any card below 90 bucks.
At least not any card that will give you a "modern" experience.

zakk02001 · Aug 4, 2014

Not after modern exactly, just something that will play something like Skyrim at a moderate frame rate with medium/high settings?

heman0286 · Aug 4, 2014

u can buy a entry level HD gaming GPU the GeForce GT 730 64-bit GDDR5....

or if u hav some extra cash.... u can buy a Radeon HD 7770, Radeon R7 250X....

here is a list of gpu tht u can buy according to ur budget choose a few.... let us knw which one ur thinking of buying & will let u knw if its good or bad....

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#sort=a7

hang-the-9 · Aug 4, 2014

You can find a great low range gaming card for your price, especially since you have a decent wattage power supply.

GeForce GT 730 64-bit GDDR5

ATI Radeon 7750, 250 or 7770/250X

The 7770/250X is pretty much the same card and is at the top of your budget, maybe a few over but is worth it and would match your CPU pretty well with a bit or room left for a CPU upgrade at some point.

Used is fine but make sure you test the card for a bit in a benchmark or game to make sure it's stable.

zakk02001 · Aug 4, 2014

Brilliant!! Thank you all!! Heman and h-t-9 especially!! You're infinite wisdom on a sixpence never ceases to amaze me!!

heman0286 · Aug 4, 2014

U r Welcome....

bhuvanesh123 · Aug 4, 2014

Try to shell out 50$ more, and get 750 ti, and enjoy all latest games in 1080p, medium-high settings.......... it could server you much longer, and the power consumption is also very low

zakk02001 · Aug 4, 2014

Will look into that thanks bhuvanesh

hang-the-9 · Aug 4, 2014

The 750Ti is a great card, BUT it's a great card for the price due to the low power use and also the size. If you have a tower or mini tower case that can fit a good card, you can get a R7 260X for less that will be as fast. Hower the 7770 class cards for $20-40 less are good enough for any game at about medium settings, maybe low-medium on the demanding games. Without a CPU upgrade to an FX6300 or higher you can safely stick with a cheaper card on the low teir of gaming cards.

Now if you want to get a card to move to a future system and can go up a bit in price, the 260X / nVidia 750Ti / Radeon 265 are all good cards in the mid class.

zakk02001 · Aug 6, 2014

Actually, just bust open the case to check the PSU, and it's only 300W. How does this restrict the above suggestions, in particular the 7770 or 7750 and the R7's?

Sorry to re-open the case!!

heman0286 · Aug 6, 2014

before we get to y the does it make a diff... does ur psu hav a 6 pin connector for the gpu????

JUICEhunter · Aug 6, 2014

+1 for the fastest 750ti OC card that uses 1 6pin power, remember if you don't have a 6 pin you can always turn two 4 pin molex to 6 pin adapter which works great.

zakk02001 · Aug 6, 2014

No, there's no 6-pin but there is a single molex available. May be able to salvage a molex from somewhere though to convert.

zakk02001 · Aug 6, 2014

Also, just been looking at the motherboard specs, and the PCI-e is v2.0 where most of the above cards are v2.1 or even 3.0. Will this matter much?

Looking at the AMD site, the 6000 series are fully compatible with v2.0.

heman0286 · Aug 6, 2014

GPU are backward compatible to PCI-e 2.0.... so PCIe 3.0 GPu will on on a PCI-e 2.0....

RobCrezz · Aug 6, 2014

JUICEhunter :

The 6pin power versions of the 750 Ti dont perform or OC any better than the non 6 pin versions from reviews I have seen.

zakk02001 · Aug 6, 2014

Thanks yet again to you two, He-man being one of them again!!

Looking at the 7770,that uses 125W of power. Given that he motherboard uses 140W, that seems to be cutting it fine somewhat especially with an older PSU.

With that in mind, the 7750 being only 75W and powered without the use of 6-pin connector may be my eventual winner?

RobCrezz · Aug 6, 2014

zakk02001 :

The regular GTX 750 might be better if you can get it for a good price.

zakk02001 · Aug 6, 2014

RobCrezz :

Wow!! That's a much superior card and will take the level of power the PC has!!

I'll have a look at these R7 cards as well to see if there's anything with a similar power usage and performance, but for a lower price.

hang-the-9 · Aug 6, 2014

For a 300 watt PSU, Radeon 7750, nVidia GT730, nVidia 750/750Ti are the cards you want to look at.
5-600 watt vs 300 makes a big difference in what cards you can use, 300 limits you to the lower tier of cards, although that lower tier is pretty fast these days.

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