Choosing graphics card for Xeon E5450 budget gaming build

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I would like to upgrade my old PC without investing more than 120€ for used parts
It will play games like Path of Exile, League of Legends, CS:GO, GTA V and maybe newer games on low settings.
The motherboard is Asus P5Q-SE with 500w psu and 4gb of DDR2 ram.
I bought an 20€ Xeon E5450 which I will overclock a little, so I am left with 100€ to spend

Now I can not decide what video card I should get. In my region these cards are available:
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II for 35€
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCU II for 40€
ASUS GTX 670 DirectCU II for 75€
(these three can not be tested and are old gen like the cpu)
ASUS GTX 760 DirectCU II for 70€ - I am able to test this one
Gigabyte GTX 1050Ti for 85€ - With one year warranty
I know the cpu will bottleneck some of these cards, but there are a lot of mixed builds working very well like that. I will add full specification for each card if needed.
Please help me pick the most optimal video card for my setup. Thank you in advance!
 
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I would not get the first two because they have less than 2gb vram. The 670 and 760 are about the same, since you can test the 760 and it's newer, I'd get that one of those two. I don't think it's worth spending the extra money on the 1050 Ti unless a warranty is very important.

If you are willing to run some games at 720p then the 570 could be a good deal. You will need more than 4gb system ram for games like GTA V.
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In a PC with an older CPU (slightly newer than yours, though) I have used a nvidia GTX960 and now an AMD RX580 with great success for 1920x1080 gaming - in any modern game.
You would have to up the RAM memory, 4GB won't suffice, you need to spend some money on that too.

Keep in mind that the latest and greatest iterations from consoles have GPU's similar to RX470 (PS4 Pro, 4.2 TFlops) and RX480 (XBOX One X, 6 TFlops).
 
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I would not get the first two because they have less than 2gb vram. The 670 and 760 are about the same, since you can test the 760 and it's newer, I'd get that one of those two. I don't think it's worth spending the extra money on the 1050 Ti unless a warranty is very important.

If you are willing to run some games at 720p then the 570 could be a good deal. You will need more than 4gb system ram for games like GTA V.
 
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