need help upgrading my graphics

led1nis

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with is better nvidia geforce 210, radeon hd 6450, or radoen r7 240 ??????

my pc specs is

dell dimension 520

cpu 2.6 intel core2quad
6gb ram
geforce 210
1 tb hdd
runs on win7 ultimate

thnx
 

Videographer

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For that system just get the cheapest of the three. My brother has a similar system and the fastest budget card it would support was technically a 5450. I dropped a 6450 in to test it, and while it worked there was a tiny perfomance gain not worth worrying about. I would get the 6450 because I've used it before, but the 210 is perfectly usable too.
 

DamonYoules

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While i agree that you shouldnt spend too much money on this system, dont buy the cheapest one... its worse than some of Intel's integrated graphics chips
 

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The machine already has a 210, the question is whether to spend on an upgrade, its unlikely to boost it much although I do agree the 210 is not suited for games at all the 6450 wont give much more performance and the R7 will run into compatability issues with the PCI slot and will most likely bottleneck on modern games anyway
 

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Fair enough, yeah i was under the impresssion he was attempting to get another 210 to *SLI* instead. But yeah for modern games to run smoothly and not look terrible then hes gunna need a new mobo, GPU and CPU
 

led1nis

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well i got 3 in my hand and was thinking which one i can use or better for my system... well what i can do is get them gpu's back to the shop and maybe i can get

EVGA GeForce GT 610 or

asus NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 or


EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 or


SAPPHIRE Radeon R7 240 with Boost

as all i want to spent is about 80£ and all of them is in my price range

and is there will b any diference coz some1 is talking about bottleneck and issues why ???