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October 9, 2014 12:46:18 PM

Hello guys ! So ive got this crappy 4 gig ram e 6600 3.06 ghz dual core 9800 gt 1 gig 256 bits pc which by a surprise runs bf 3 on low pretty decent 25-30 + fps most of the time except in extra large shit it gets a bit messy and slows a bit but in a second it gets out of it on a 25-30 fps pretty fast.

But i wanted a fully stable without neither any stutter or lag or 20 fps here or there just a complete stable low settings multiplayer u see i dont care bout the graphics now since im on the tightest budget ever cus i cant even sell my 9800 gt.

So i found a fairly cheap r7 240 even i was suggested a r7 250 which is 30 bucks more expensive than the 240 the one i found is boosted and 2 gigs. I cant shop online so sadly im limited all into local shopping.

Do u think if i get the that r7 il get stable low graphics FPS so i can run around and do all normal shit with no drops on 20 fps any stutter or lag ... i currently get it average 25-30 but the sometimes slowings are pain in the ass.

So i still think the 240 should do the work but i dont rly even know that much of graphic cards.
Thanks allot !

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October 9, 2014 12:50:03 PM

R7 250 can play BF4 at ultra and average nearly 30 fps. Should bet good enough to meet some light gaming needs.
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October 9, 2014 12:50:43 PM

What's your budget?
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a b 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 12:53:20 PM

Regardless, the 240 is probably going to run better with the CPU you have than the 250 will but since I don't know what GPU you have now or if you're using integrated graphics I can't tell you how it will do compared to what you're using now. You also don't mention what resolution you're running at.
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October 9, 2014 12:59:19 PM

darkbreeze said:
Regardless, the 240 is probably going to run better with the CPU you have than the 250 will but since I don't know what GPU you have now or if you're using integrated graphics I can't tell you how it will do compared to what you're using now. You also don't mention what resolution you're running at.


I'm using a completely old and overused 9800 gt 1 gig 256 bits, mentioned it.
1280x1024 !

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What's your budget?

80 bucks.
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a b 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:03:20 PM

The 240 is nearly the same in performance as the 9800 was when new (Maybe very slightly higher), sorry, I missed that info in your first post, and the 250 has better performance. The 250 will probably be bottlenecked by the old dual core low clock cpu though.
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October 9, 2014 1:08:40 PM

sammy sung said:
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J6c6Q7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J6c6Q7/by_merchant/

Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 250X 1GB Video Card ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $79.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-09 16:03 EDT-0400

Call it a day

My man thanks allot but i also mentioned that i can't do any shopping online, first off im from Macedonia, its hell of a way and most of the good sites dont ship to there and also im scared of shipping on amazon or ebay it gets similar in prices local usualy, so im totaly not doing it anyway. Thanks eitherway !
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October 9, 2014 1:10:39 PM

R7 240, if you mean light gaming as in Minecraft, Fate, spades, and some internet games then this one is perfect for under $60
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October 9, 2014 1:11:55 PM

crazzyz said:
sammy sung said:
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J6c6Q7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J6c6Q7/by_merchant/

Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 250X 1GB Video Card ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $79.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-09 16:03 EDT-0400

Call it a day

My man thanks allot but i also mentioned that i can't do any shopping online, first off im from Macedonia, its hell of a way and most of the good sites dont ship to there and also im scared of shipping on amazon or ebay it gets similar in prices local usualy, so im totaly not doing it anyway. Thanks eitherway !


Do you have a hardware or a Microcenter near you?
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October 9, 2014 1:14:20 PM

crazzyz said:
sammy sung said:
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J6c6Q7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J6c6Q7/by_merchant/

Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 250X 1GB Video Card ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $79.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-09 16:03 EDT-0400

Call it a day

My man thanks allot but i also mentioned that i can't do any shopping online, first off im from Macedonia, its hell of a way and most of the good sites dont ship to there and also im scared of shipping on amazon or ebay it gets similar in prices local usualy, so im totaly not doing it anyway. Thanks eitherway !


If you're suggesting you have to shop via local shops/retailers you'll definitely be paying for their mark-up. In that case I'd say you'll be looking at either an R7-240 or R7-250 non X if you're lucky. Retail mark-up in the states is vicious. For example, bestbuy sells an EVGA GTX 750Ti SC for $200 when it goes for $120 online.
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October 9, 2014 1:15:06 PM

Shamar Holtz said:
crazzyz said:
sammy sung said:
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J6c6Q7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J6c6Q7/by_merchant/

Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 250X 1GB Video Card ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $79.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-09 16:03 EDT-0400

Call it a day

My man thanks allot but i also mentioned that i can't do any shopping online, first off im from Macedonia, its hell of a way and most of the good sites dont ship to there and also im scared of shipping on amazon or ebay it gets similar in prices local usualy, so im totaly not doing it anyway. Thanks eitherway !


Do you have a hardware or a Microcenter near you?

Nope just few local shops with somewhat decent prices.
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October 9, 2014 1:17:00 PM

crazzyz said:
Shamar Holtz said:
crazzyz said:
sammy sung said:
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J6c6Q7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J6c6Q7/by_merchant/

Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 250X 1GB Video Card ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $79.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-09 16:03 EDT-0400

Call it a day

My man thanks allot but i also mentioned that i can't do any shopping online, first off im from Macedonia, its hell of a way and most of the good sites dont ship to there and also im scared of shipping on amazon or ebay it gets similar in prices local usualy, so im totaly not doing it anyway. Thanks eitherway !


Do you have a hardware or a Microcenter near you?

Nope just few local shops with somewhat decent prices.


Local shops tend to be slightly more forgiving in terms of price than your high end retailers, ironically. But they still have lots of overhead to cover, and thus mark the prices up for "convenience factor"
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October 9, 2014 1:18:33 PM

Well what parts are there at your local shop? A list to choose from would be nice
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a c 466 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:20:14 PM

I would try to get a an r7 250. It is a great budget GPU. It will NOT run BF4 at 30fps at Ultra at anything like 720p or 1080p. No idea what the one guy is talking about.

Also what is your screen resolution? This is a REALLY important question no one has asked.
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a b 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:20:24 PM

Shamar Holtz said:
Do you have a hardware or a Microcenter near you?

Macedonia Greece, I believe, NOT Macedonia Ohio. He's got very limited tech options however there is possibly some delivery options through Amazon Italia or another EU option. Might be better to go local though since the shipping would probably be prohibitive.
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a b 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:21:46 PM

tiny voices said:
I would try to get a an r7 250. It is a great budget GPU. It will NOT run BF4 at 30fps at Ultra at anything like 720p or 1080p. No idea what the one guy is talking about.

Also what is your screen resolution? This is a REALLY important question no one has asked.


Actually, I asked that very question in my first post.
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October 9, 2014 1:22:11 PM

tiny voices said:
I would try to get a an r7 250. It is a great budget GPU. It will NOT run BF4 at 30fps at Ultra at anything like 720p or 1080p. No idea what the one guy is talking about.

Also what is your screen resolution? This is a REALLY important question no one has asked.


OP said 1280X1024
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October 9, 2014 1:23:31 PM

BF4 isn't light gaming tho, I listed some light games in my first post
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a c 466 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:23:53 PM

There we are. Good catch.

In that case I would go for the r7 250. It will run your games comfortably and not be too much for your system to handle.
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October 9, 2014 1:23:57 PM

sammy sung said:
Local shops tend to be slightly more forgiving in terms of price than your high end retailers, ironically. But they still have lots of overhead to cover, and thus mark the prices up for "convenience factor"


That's completely opposite of the truth. Online retailers are almost always cheaper, even including the shipping. You did get the mark up for convenience part right though.
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a c 466 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:25:29 PM

Only for certain parts. At many stores (Microcenter comes to mind for this) you get HUGE discounts when buying a CPU and Motherboard together. NOTHING like what you could ever find online. But for other parts, namely PSUs, online seems to always be cheaper.
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October 9, 2014 1:26:26 PM

Shamar Holtz said:
Well what parts are there at your local shop? A list to choose from would be nice


- 80 bucks is the r7 240 boosted 2gigs
- 110 bucks is a r7 250 gddr5 1gig
- gtx650 140 bucks

And im all into the cheapest to get the low graphics fully playable, i'm a cheap **** for gaming now screw it.

edited for language
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a c 466 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:27:47 PM

I would go for the 250 as it will last longer before struggling.
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October 9, 2014 1:29:27 PM

Shamar Holtz said:
BF4 isn't light gaming tho, I listed some light games in my first post


My question was about bf3 on playable fps at just the lowest possible graphics. The bf4 was from someone else answering here.
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October 9, 2014 1:32:31 PM

tiny voices said:
I would go for the 250 as it will last longer before struggling.


Yea that was my first ever option i got from this forum too, but the point is it is hard to sell this graphics card i've got and especially in my town in my place, not that people,kids dont game but just noone will go for the 8 year old used card and thats why im tight on budget and trying to see if a 240 would do my low graphics playable experience even if what i ask for is kinda too much, i know it is.
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a c 466 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:34:19 PM

It would be hard to sell it anywhere. Honestly you will not be able to sell it.

IF all you can afford is the 240 I would STRONGLY recommend saving for the 250. It will be a MUCH better experience and last much longer.
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October 9, 2014 1:34:30 PM

darkbreeze said:
sammy sung said:
Local shops tend to be slightly more forgiving in terms of price than your high end retailers, ironically. But they still have lots of overhead to cover, and thus mark the prices up for "convenience factor"


That's completely opposite of the truth. Online retailers are almost always cheaper, even including the shipping. You did get the mark up for convenience part right though.


OP said he can't shop online however, so I'm citing the deal between in store local shops and retailers. I've interned at numerous "everyday average" computer repair shops that'd charge around 10% mark-up on parts bought through retail. These were usually parts that were for commissioned builds that got backed out on. Many parts were sold for less than their online refurbished counterparts when parted out from very cheap tower buys online.

So no, Local Shops tend to be cheaper than retail locations like BestBuy or say Canada Computers

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a b 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:36:50 PM

tiny voices said:
Only for certain parts. At many stores (Microcenter comes to mind for this) you get HUGE discounts when buying a CPU and Motherboard together. NOTHING like what you could ever find online. But for other parts, namely PSUs, online seems to always be cheaper.


I wasn't counting places like Microcenter and TigerDirect, who have online and physical stores, because they are not generally located in most places, and certainly not in Macedonia. Heh. In Macedonia, Microcenter is likely a very small building where people gather. Ok, not that witty but you get the idea. Places that do have those kinds of retail stores available though are as you say often better though.

I'm seeing results of bottlenecking in frame rates for nearly all the early dual core pentiums at stock clocks when used with the R7 250 at anything over 768. What makes this one different?
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a c 466 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:43:18 PM

Show me the bottlenecking. Where are you finding this?

his CPU should run perfectly fine with that GPU. At his res there might be a tiny bottleneck with BF4 or games that REALLY like 4 cores, but really there should be little to no visible bottleneck.
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a c 466 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:51:24 PM

Yeah Intel messed up the naming of first gen of the Pentium/i3/i5/i7 chips and even changed a few later on for less confusion.
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a b 4 Gaming
October 9, 2014 1:57:12 PM

tiny voices said:
Yeah Intel messed up the naming of first gen of the Pentium/i3/i5/i7 chips and even changed a few later on for less confusion.


I should have guessed something was up. The one I was looking at and getting results for, but also including some of the other early E models, would have cramped things up for sure. Well, with the specs on that other one I imagine it would be ok, not spectacular, but passable. And I agree it would definitely last longer as it wouldn't ever experience as much stress. Plus if he ever upgrades the cpu and motherboard, he would have a much better solution at that point than if he had gone with the 240. Stupid Intel, screwing me all up.
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October 9, 2014 1:58:07 PM

I was gonna say, cause I know from personal experience that a 550Ti isn't bottlenecked by a E6600. And that's roughly on par with an R7-250
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October 9, 2014 3:17:50 PM

Just to back up what others are saying, go for the 250. I have a slower cpu than yours, mine is the Pentium dual core e5200 (2x2.5GHz) with 4GB ram. I have a Asus R7 250 1GB DDR5, and I have no issues with this card getting slowed by my cpu.
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