Hi all and thanks for the help. My Radeon 5670 appears to have died. Had pixelated mouse pointer yesterday then son was playing an online game and screen went black. Mobo gets stuck on GPU error when posting and GPU is hot. Swapped in the only other really old GPU I could find from an old Dell and it works so its not Mobo.
Given that we don't do a lot of heavy PC gaming and my system is i7 2600K and still perfectly fine for me, I don't want to spend a lot of money. However if it turns out that today's "budget" cards are a few steps better horsepower than a 5670 then I happily take that in the process. But if the choice is spending $25 to get something basically equivalent to what I had (which allowed my son to play some games) and $75-100 to increase framerates, then definitely I'd spend $25 just to get me back to where I was and save the cash. But if I can get a 5670-equiv for $25 but only $10 more gets me something several steps better on the Tom's chart then I would do that I think.
System: Asrock P67 Extreme 4, i72600k, 8gb RAM, 380W Antec PSU.
My 5670 didn't require a direct plug in to the PSU so if my new card needs one I'll need to understand what that socket looks like to make sure I have the correct extra plug on my PSU. I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of also upgrading PSU "while I'm at it"
BASICALLY I GUESS MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE CHEAPEST CURRENT GPU I CAN BUY RIGHT NOW THAT IS AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN THE RADEON 5670. Or should I buy old stock or used on Ebay and try to target a 5770 or something a few steps up the ladder from the 5670? But I want something that doesn't need separate power. This is why I'm so confused so asking you guys
Given that we don't do a lot of heavy PC gaming and my system is i7 2600K and still perfectly fine for me, I don't want to spend a lot of money. However if it turns out that today's "budget" cards are a few steps better horsepower than a 5670 then I happily take that in the process. But if the choice is spending $25 to get something basically equivalent to what I had (which allowed my son to play some games) and $75-100 to increase framerates, then definitely I'd spend $25 just to get me back to where I was and save the cash. But if I can get a 5670-equiv for $25 but only $10 more gets me something several steps better on the Tom's chart then I would do that I think.
System: Asrock P67 Extreme 4, i72600k, 8gb RAM, 380W Antec PSU.
My 5670 didn't require a direct plug in to the PSU so if my new card needs one I'll need to understand what that socket looks like to make sure I have the correct extra plug on my PSU. I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of also upgrading PSU "while I'm at it"
BASICALLY I GUESS MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE CHEAPEST CURRENT GPU I CAN BUY RIGHT NOW THAT IS AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN THE RADEON 5670. Or should I buy old stock or used on Ebay and try to target a 5770 or something a few steps up the ladder from the 5670? But I want something that doesn't need separate power. This is why I'm so confused so asking you guys
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