I've been having some Blue Screens lately, I did a few tests, not all, but it might be my graphics card. It's old and it wouldn't amaze me. I have a GTS 250 and I wonder what graphics card would be good enough to replace it. Max I can afford is 100 dollars, but I might wait for a Christmas offer to buy something that's like 125 dollars at a lower price, I'd love some opinions if you can so I can start hunting. I can't afford a new PC as much as I'd love one, so I need a decent replacement, curious if I can find something good for that money, but my gaming days are kind of over. Also I have an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 as a bottleneck, if you needed that info.
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Changing my graphics card.
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smoothbeginner100
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AMD's Radeon R7 260X or Nvidia's GeForce GTX 750 Ti are your best bet bro:
https://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-02gp43751kr - GTX 750 Ti
https://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r7260xcnf4 - R7 260X
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If you have not tried a clean Windows setup do that before you start replacing hardware due to bluescreens. Or try different RAM first before the video card.
A GTX 750 (non Ti) is right in your price range and no need to change drivers. If you are planning on moving the card to another system then a 750 Ti would be better. If you don't care about keeping the same drivers, Radeon 250x is a good pick also.
A GTX 750 (non Ti) is right in your price range and no need to change drivers. If you are planning on moving the card to another system then a 750 Ti would be better. If you don't care about keeping the same drivers, Radeon 250x is a good pick also.
I did some testing on my RAM, memtest 86+ for almost 12 hours shows no errors. Also I did change some paging options and uninstalled and reinstalled my graphics card driver, it reduced the frequency to a point where I kind of know what causes them and how to avoid them when I can. The BSoD codes are 0x00000119, 0x0000009f (DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE), 0x00000050 (PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA), the latter being the most often one, and the one that I can replicate. My last option would be to do a clean install, but it's not the first time this Graphics Card gives me trouble that is I'm inclined to believe the vague information I found about my BSoD.
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What is the brand/model of the power supply? That would be a good thing to check also. If you have a spare lower power video card you should try that also.
The power supply is Sirtec - High Power Element BRONZE 500W, it's only 1 year old, since my old PSU had issues, probably the old PSU damaged my video card more than it was before. As for spare video card, I do not have one. If you need any more details feel free to ask.
Also thanks to both you and smoothbeginner100 for the help so far. I appreciate it.
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That is actually not that bad of a power supply although less well known. It's tough to sort out the true cause of the crashes without swapping out hardware though, I'd at least try a clean Windows setup to rule out any software issues. Then you can try a different video card.
Yeah I will do so, cause anyway I'd rather not buy something without a heavy discount, after all the PC is old so I don't want to invest in it anymore, but I need it to work until I can afford a proper upgrade/full change. If anything I'm bummed I missed Black Friday. Anyway thanks for everything and have a nice day.
Edit: And yeah, the PSU is not that bad, I asked for advice and checked the reviews before buying it. I did not choose the cheapest thing on the market because I know how important the PSU is, cause otherwise I could have saved like almost 40% on it.
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