Looking to upgrade

[zookeeper525]

Hey, guys i'm wondering if you can lead me to the best gpu money can for 100$ around that price range i play games now on my set up, but it can't really handle the best of games. I know my system i little out dated, but any help would be great. this is the card i was thinking about gong with. http://preview.tinyurl.com/28q94t6

and this is my set up.

CPU1) Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz @ 1973MHz (Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P35-DS3R mainboard) (RAM) 4GB, 2.08GB free (HDDs) 1.31TB, 923GB free
• (VGA1) NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT (512MB), 1024x768x32, 60Hz (OS) Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise 32-bit

 

[hunter315]

That is a good card, and will easily max out anything at your resolution. You will have a hard time finding better performance at that price point.

 

[zookeeper525]

That is a good card, and will easily max out anything at your resolution. You will have a hard time finding better performance at that price point.

How big of a difference would i be looking at with that card? Also, do you know how good it would handle games?

I'm no pro at pc's and only know the basic stuff.
I'm just starting to get into gaming etc on pc.
and i built this tower along time ago, so i really don't know what i'm doing at this point. haha

 

[hunter315]

I have the version with the fully enclosed cooler but the performance is the same, and it handles games extremely well. At 1280x1024 i can max a lot of games out, at 1920x1080 i can play most things on high. It should more than double the performance of your 8500GT, dont worry you wont be disappointed.

 

[zookeeper525]

do you know whats different about this one
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yfn49go other then it being ddr2?

how much performance would i lose buying that card over the ddr3?

 

[Tamz_msc]

The 4850 gives the best price/performance at 100$.

 

[hunter315]

Buy your parts from newegg, best buy has a good deal once in a while but in general over charges by a lot. To give you an idea of just how bad they are, the $90 card at best buy is $65 on newegg. If you have the budget for the 4850 get it, its a lot faster than the 4650.