Best Graphics card for 220 dollar
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Susquehannock
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Unsure of pricing in your area. Best value in that price range in USA is probably the RX 480 4gb cards. Good quality 500w+ PSU is needed.
Evil_Geoff
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The "best" you can get for $220 depends entirely on what kind of motherboard and CPU you have. Trying to run an RX 480 on a motherboard that had its last BIOS update in 2009, that has a single core Pentium processor isn't very likely to work.
Which is why the forum guides tell you to post your PC specs.
Which is why the forum guides tell you to post your PC specs.
Evil_Geoff
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Your system is about the same generation as mine, second generation Core iX series with an LGA-1155 socket, that H61 board is a Sandy Bridge board. Which means you may run into BIOS compatibility issues. Last BIOS update was in 2012 - http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3773#bios
You could probably (and that's the key word, probably) run something like a GTX 900 series or an R9 series card, you could almost certainly get a GTX 700 or 600 series or an R7/HD 7000 series GPU working.
You may, or may not get an RX 400 series or GTX 1000 series card to work on that board.
If you can't afford a new PC with a Sandylake or Kaby Lake processor (6th or 7th Gen Core iX CPU), minimum upgrade would be to an Ivy Bridge motherboard with a z77 or maybe q77 chipset, and a BIOS update that is as new as possible. Asus, for example, was kicking out BIOS updates for some of their z77 boards into 2014.
The newer you can afford to get, the better. And considering some of the prices I'm seeing, a new i7-6700 or i7-7600 chip is CHEAPER than my dinosaur of i7-2600. Go figure.
You could probably (and that's the key word, probably) run something like a GTX 900 series or an R9 series card, you could almost certainly get a GTX 700 or 600 series or an R7/HD 7000 series GPU working.
You may, or may not get an RX 400 series or GTX 1000 series card to work on that board.
If you can't afford a new PC with a Sandylake or Kaby Lake processor (6th or 7th Gen Core iX CPU), minimum upgrade would be to an Ivy Bridge motherboard with a z77 or maybe q77 chipset, and a BIOS update that is as new as possible. Asus, for example, was kicking out BIOS updates for some of their z77 boards into 2014.
The newer you can afford to get, the better. And considering some of the prices I'm seeing, a new i7-6700 or i7-7600 chip is CHEAPER than my dinosaur of i7-2600. Go figure.
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What is your current graphics card? In addition to the $220, do you have any extra money to spend on upgrading other components? What is your power supply's manufacturer and model number? What is your storage? Name two or three games that you wish to play? You play 1080p @ 60 Hz or other?
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