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Buying New Card, budget $70

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  • Boost
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October 13, 2014 5:49:23 AM

Hi, so my card went kaput (Gt 440 1024M gddr5 128b). I'm on a very tight budget ( <US$70) and I've done enough research to narrow down my search to 5 cards (see list). However, I really want to make the most out of the money I'll be using, so any difference between these, if any, matter to me. Here are the cards I'm considering:

(1) R7-240 2048MB 128bit DDR3 Boost Full
(2) HD6570 2048MB 128bit DDR3
(3) R7-240 1024MB 128bit DDR5 Boost Full
(4) HD6570 1024MB 128bit DDR3
(5) GT630 2048MB 128bit DDR3

My computer
> is on a H61H2-M12 motherboard (this thing i think also got damaged when my vid card overheat itself, but that's for another day)
> has a PCI-E 2.0 x 16 slot
> is on a PowerSonic 600-watt power supply thing
> is on dual monitors (until the vid card died)
> is running on an i3 2120 (if that matters)

I use my PC mainly for studying, reading, some (day) trading using Metatrader, and amateurish 3d modeling (I use blender) but I'm only 24 so I also use the PC for some games . These games include (in order of time spent on each):
1) Football manager series
2) Paradox Interactive Games (such as EU4, CKII)
Some mainstream games:
3) Mass Effect 2 (Ithink this caused my card to go bust, I recently bought the game and I wasnt even able to past the 1st level/stage/whatever)
4) Skyrim
5) etc..

I'd like to use my card for those types of games, even if on low settings.

I hope you can help me.

Best Regards,
Matt

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October 13, 2014 5:56:53 AM

R7 250 is the way, but not mentioned here :)  From those I would pick 3rd one (R7 240 DDR5) for the faster memory instead of 2-gig model with DDR3.

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October 13, 2014 7:33:40 AM

GT 730 64-bit GDDR5 is just about in your price range.
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