is nvidia geforce 210 handle games

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hey guys i may sound like and idiot
i have nvidia geforce 210 can it run farcry 4 or gta v on medium settings?
 
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4-5 year old is Hot Pursuit 2010 - massive stutter on my 210.
8 year old is Prostreet - playable FPS on the 210, unplayable on integrated of that time.
10 years old is Most Wanted and GTA San Andreas - you can hope to play those with no stutter.

GTA IV, V/ FC4 - Absolutely zero chance.
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Not a chance. The 210 is a basic display adapter and nothing more. I doubt those games would even boot up with the 210. I installed a GT 210 with 1GB DDR3 on my mom's office PC and it is terrible. It can barely even handle 1080p video playback let alone a AAA game from 2014-15. If you want to play those games, you will need to spend a minimum of $100 to $150 on something like a R7 260x or GTX 750ti. If you want medium settings and decent frame rates in 1080p, get a GTX 960 or R9 380, both $200 cards at the moment.
 
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Well‚ the truth is it used to be an entry level graphics card but now it is completely out of the picture. Judging by today's standards‚ I'd say a Radeon 7850 or an equivalent should be the bare minimum every PC gamer should strive for
 
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4-5 year old is Hot Pursuit 2010 - massive stutter on my 210.
8 year old is Prostreet - playable FPS on the 210, unplayable on integrated of that time.
10 years old is Most Wanted and GTA San Andreas - you can hope to play those with no stutter.

GTA IV, V/ FC4 - Absolutely zero chance.
 
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It depends most on which CPU you are using. Your PC is quite old but is compatible with all the graphics cards I mentioned in my previous post as long as it has at least one PCIe x16 slot. If you are using a Core 2 Quad with at least 3 GHz or you can overclock to 3 GHz, you could use a R7 370 or GTX 950 without too much CPU and chipset bottleneck. If you are using a lower end Core 2 Duo or Pentium 4, I'd suggest upgrading the CPU to a Core 2 Quad first, a minimum of the Q6600 which can be had for under $25 used (http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-CORE-2-QUAD-Q6600-2-4GHz-1066MHz-QUAD-CORE-DESKTOP-CPU-PROCESSOR-SLACR-/151732348389?hash=item2353f3e5e5:g:VjQAAOSwT6pVlAyK). Also, if you don't have at least 6 GB DDR2 800, I'd look into getting more RAM as well, ideally 8 GB. So, if you have at least a Core 2 Quad running at 3 GHz, 8 GB of RAM and a PCIe x16 slot, you could use a 370 or 950. Those would be the maximum GPUs that I would use in a PC like that. Anything over them and your CPU will be holding the GPU back and the extra money spent would be a waste. Something like a R7 260x or GTX 750 is probably what you want to look at. The 750 is ideal because it doesn't require a big power supply and it is a massive upgrade over your 210. You should be able to run FC4 and GTA5 on it in 720p and medium detail with pretty nice frame rates.
 
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I won't unselect the solution, but it's not worth it to upgrade that PC.
It can accomodate only a max of 4GB of DDR2-667/800 RAM, which is very slow(mine runs at 1GB/s, whereas dual channel DDR3 runs at 12GB/s+). Games will take a lot of time to load, if at all they do, and the CPU is going to be a bottleneck.

cub_fanatic, the processor you linked doesn't ship to India, which I think the OP is from. If he's from anywhere around there(pak, bangladesh, etc) I don't think he'd find a C2Q there either.

I use a C2D, and it bottlenecks a GTX 650, which I also use. I get 13FPS max on any playable scene on GTAIV(not counting tunnels).

Also personally, I don't think the processor will be able to handle the two games either, it gives me only 17FPS on LANoire, which is much less CPU intensive than FC4 and GTAV.
 
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It all depends on what the OP has to begin with. He/she makes no mention of what CPU is being used in that motherboard, how much RAM is installed or what OS is being used. I'm not even sure when the OP mentioned his/her location. If the OP already has a C2Q, 4 to 6 GB of RAM and a 64-bit OS, then a $100 GPU like the 750 will make new AAA games playable in 720p to 900p. It will probably still be bottlenecked depending on the game, CPU clock, FSB clock and RAM speed but it will be playable. There are several videos of people with a stock clocked Q6600, 4 or 6 GB of DDR2 and a GTX 750ti playing GTA 5 in 1080p in high detail and getting around 30 FPS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtHMYiSkiHQ

And there are also many people running GTA 5 with a Core 2 Duo but most of them are 3 GHz or close to 3 GHz chips like this person who is using an E8400 and GTX 550ti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47cZnUOCtPs

If you are running a 2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB C2D, then, yeah, it will bottleneck just about any GPU made in the last 3 of 4 years even the low end ones. But, a 1333 MHz FSB C2Q running at 3 GHz is up there with a 4 year old i3 or 3 year old laptop i5 in terms of gaming performance. A Q6600 scores ~3,000 on passmark @ 2.4 GHz. At 3 GHz or higher, it is going to be on par with a Sandy Bridge desktop i3 and an Ivy Bridge laptop i5 both of which are dual core CPUs with HT that top out at just over 3 GHz. Pair that with a 1,333 MHz motherboard that has PCIe 2.0 x16, and even just 4GB of DDR2 @ 800 MHz and you will get similar performance out of a GTX 750/750ti to the rig in the first video I linked above.

 
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