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Benjamib

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I'm building a cheap pc and I want to buy best budget gpu for my rig (I'm looking for about 100$ used card).
I found some good deals on ebay, and I would like to know wich one do you guys think is the beat for the purpuse of 3d modeling abd gaming.
Gpus:
Asus Radeon r9 270 - 100$
Powercolor r9 270 -110$
Manli Geforce gtx 670 - 110$
Hd 7870 - 110$
Hd 7850 - 100$

I will put it dell 3500 workstation motherboard with 12 gb of ECC ram,
Xeon e5640 and a 430w evga psu.

I'm looking forward for yor answers.
Sorry for my english.
 
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Ryan_78


RX 470 might be around 150$ it's a 110w card
RX 460 might be closer to yup our budget. I personally don't know the TDP, it should be low

Anyways you don't need a new PSU for the 460/70 but I reccomemd you get one. This ensures Clean power is delivered to your system
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Honestly, save a bit more and get a new RX 480. You get huge performance boost of you use OpenGL. Not cuda acceleration
Also you need a PSU upgrade. Get a good 550w PSU to run any of those used cards. Use the psu tier list for help. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
But if you were to choose, I would go neither. See if you can find a used HD 7950. For about 110-120$ that's in my opinion the best deal. 3GB VRAM and good card. Get a good PSU too. I reccomemd XFX TS 550 or Seasonic G
 
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The RX 480 will be for $200+. If you could stretch your budget just a little, you can get a brand new Asus Stris R9 380 2GB for just $124 here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121963&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=


The R9 380 would absolutely demolish the performance of the other cards for just $14 dollars above what you are willing to spend.

One more thing, AMD will really soon(1-2weeks) be releasing their RX 460 and RX 470 for $99 and $125 its definitely worth the wait. The RX 460 most probably will have the performance(hopefully) of the R9 380 with alot less power draw from the new polaris architecture.
 
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RX 470 might be around 150$ it's a 110w card
RX 460 might be closer to yup our budget. I personally don't know the TDP, it should be low

Anyways you don't need a new PSU for the 460/70 but I reccomemd you get one. This ensures Clean power is delivered to your system
 
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Already has" but I mean 460 or 470 isn't too bad either. Not 970 performance though. A 460 would not need a PSU upgrade.

He has a workstation PC. He's just upgrading it.
 
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If he has a standard 430w evga psu with 34a on the +12 rail. Thats 408 watts total power on +12. 75% is 306watts. the xeon is 80w plus 40w for mobo 145w for VD. Thats 265w. Thats 65% utilization on the +12 rail.
 
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just bought XFX TS 550 (for 45$). I think, i'l buy hd 7970, beacuse newegg doesn't ship things to my country.
 
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don't get the GHz edition. the GHz edition is sometimes voltage locked.
you want a sapphire Dual-X OCor anyther brand like ASUS Direct CUII 7970.

my 7970 GHz (managed to get it unlocked) with oc at 1185/1675 is pretty good runs heaven with 1000 score. plays new games OK.
 
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