Need low cost video card for 8 year old's gaming pc. (Under $200)

Philipcwal · Nov 14, 2016

I have a custom build pc
Asus p7p55d pro mobo
I7 860 cpu
16 gb ram
Pcie to sata 3
Ssd running sata 3 soon to be pcie ssd running 1400 read /600 write win 10
Currently has 2 nvidia geforce 550 ti 1gb each sli together

Is there a beter card that will run my sons games better?
Mostly steam games
Minecraft
Any help would be apreciated

Thanks

MrN1ce9uy · Nov 14, 2016

Hello and welcome to Tom'sHardware

There are several new low cost video cards available that will be a great upgrade for your son's PC. The current enty-level gaming cards right now are:

RX 460 - $99 MSRP
GTX 1050 - $109 MSRP
GTX 1050 Ti - $139 MSRP

These are in order of price and performance. Any of these would be better than 2x GTX 550 Ti SLI.

Sometimes you can find the RX 470 for a good price, it would be superior to all of the above.

gussrtk · Nov 14, 2016

You could look into getting a GTX 1050ti. It's a budget graphics card from nVidia, fairly recently released. It should run great on that PC. Although exact difference I can't quite predict. but most games run best on single card, since the support for dual video cards is not so wide across the board in the gaming titles.

Even then, it really depends on the games that he plays, STEAM does have a full variety of games. in either case, The CPU is a bit dated so the 1050 will pair great with it and it's a good price.

Philipcwal · Nov 14, 2016

Yeah i built the pc for myself 9 years ago
Plays most things no lag, no issues at all
But i know its dated
The only 2. Things i can upgrade is the hard drive
And the graphics card
Figured if i can get him 2-3 more years out of it before i build him a new model
Or pass him my current and build myself a new , same as i did on that 1

Thanks ill look at the 1050 and 460/470

Dont know alot about video cards and apreciate teh help

Philipcwal · Nov 14, 2016

Any suggestions on a 2010 mac pro
Has the 5870 1 gb card in it
64 gb ram
Dual quad core xenon processors
Dual pcie ssd predator hyper x
1 for max os
1 runs win 7
And a samsung evo running win 10

quotemsg=18868789,0,277361]Hello and welcome to Tom'sHardware

There are several new low cost video cards available that will be a great upgrade for your son's PC. The current enty-level gaming cards right now are:

RX 460 - $99 MSRP
GTX 1050 - $109 MSRP
GTX 1050 Ti - $139 MSRP

These are in order of price and performance. Any of these would be better than 2x GTX 550 Ti SLI.

Sometimes you can find the RX 470 for a good price, it would be superior to all of the above.

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MrN1ce9uy · Nov 14, 2016

Philipcwal :

The i7-860 is faster than the Xeon E5620, and having more cores/threads that are slower means nothing in gaming. The HD 5870 isn't that great either, and it only has 1GB vRAM. Today's games need at least 2GB.

i7-860 vs Xeon E5620 - http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-860-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5620/m841vsm6971

RX 460 vs HD 5870 - http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-460-vs-AMD-HD-5870/3641vsm7681

Getting a new GPU would be the most ideal choice. I'm sure the 2010 Mac Pro would be a great PC for playing around, but it's not an upgrade from your son's rig as far as gaming in concerned.

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