Looking for the Best Budget Card for my Rig

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Hi,

I am looking for a budget graphics card that will fit my system best. Here are my PC Specs:

AMD A4-5300
Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2
4GB RAM
Seagate 250 GB HDD
Ovation P4-600 (450W true rated) PSU

I am setting my sights on the HD 6670 or HD 7750, as a lot of my friends are telling me that these are good budget cards with low power consumption. I am not quite familiar with Nvidia cards so I have no clue what to get from the brand.

My budget is around less than $100, and hopefully a TDP of less than 100W, since I do not want to buy a new PSU. Preference is of course brand new, but a good quality used card is welcome.

AMD and Nvidia cards are welcome.

Note: I am just a casual gamer, playing LOL, Battlefield 4, Skyrim, MGR Revengeance, Metro 2033 Redux and also love watching movies on my PC.

Hope the experts in this site can provide input and advice.

Thanks!
 
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This would be a good choice for a low-power card from NVIDIA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487024&cm_re=750Ti-_-14-487-024-_-Product

Unfortunately it is over your budget... But it is one of the lower power usage good cards out there if you can stretch.
Solid 36 avg FPS on BF4 ultra 1080p
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-750-ti-review,3750-9.html

Otherwise, take a look at the R7 250x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202097&cm_re=250x-_-14-202-097-_-Product
It is basically a rebranded 7770, one step up from the 7750 that you were looking at, and hopefully on budget. The 7000 series have been discontinued, so you need to be looking at the R# 2## series unless you want...
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This would be a good choice for a low-power card from NVIDIA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487024&cm_re=750Ti-_-14-487-024-_-Product

Unfortunately it is over your budget... But it is one of the lower power usage good cards out there if you can stretch.
Solid 36 avg FPS on BF4 ultra 1080p
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-750-ti-review,3750-9.html

Otherwise, take a look at the R7 250x
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202097&cm_re=250x-_-14-202-097-_-Product
It is basically a rebranded 7770, one step up from the 7750 that you were looking at, and hopefully on budget. The 7000 series have been discontinued, so you need to be looking at the R# 2## series unless you want used.

7770 / 250x should get you ~30FPS on BF4 1080p ultra.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2014-vga-charts/16-Battlefield-4-1080p,3608.html
 
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bluejayek

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I just saw 0gkush's recomendations. I would be careful of them with your power supply. The GTX760 uses up to 170W of power and recomends a 500W PSU which is higher then you have. Your PSU also seems not to be great quality so you should not push it.

Used radeon cards are sometimes not the best idea as they are more used for litecoin mining then nvidia, and therefore the '8 month old' card you buy could more likely have been running >90% 24/7 for that 8 months and be closer to worn out.

Notice here the 250x and 750Ti both use under 250W full system which gaming, which is suited to your PSU.
http://www.legitreviews.com/powercolor-radeon-r7-250x-1gb-video-card-review_137172/10

The 280x will be even worse then the 660 in terms of power consumption, please don't go that route.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-280x-r9-270x-r7-260x,3635-18.html

280x caps out over 200W used by the card alone.

 
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