Need GPU Advice!

[mortalportal]

Hello again friends! I purchased my Seasonic 520W psu and it works flawless. But the bad part? MY GPU fried from my old PSU/MOBO.

I have the following:
BioSTAR A880G+ With onboard ATI graphics
AMD Phenom II X4 965BE
8GB GSKILL Ram
Seasonic S12II 520W Bronze 80+ PSU

Is there any decent GPU I can run with this setup? Most I can spend is $160 USD.

Any and all help will be considered~!

 

[geofelt]

Your psu is an excellent one. You can run any graphics card you can buy with a $160 budget.
That might be something like a 6850 or GTX560.

 

[mortalportal]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102948

i was considering this. but no idea if my psu would handle it.

 

[geofelt]

Looks ok to me.
Here is what amd recommends, a 500w unit for the 6870:
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/amd-radeon-hd-6000/hd-6870/pages/amd-radeon-hd-6870-overview.aspx#3

 

[ilysaml]

AMD recommends 500W to cover some certain stuff like OCIng, low end PSUs,.....

Total power consumption for a high end system with HD 6870 doesn't exceed 314W

Actually that quality branded PSU can run HD 7970 and there will be a room also for OCing the CPU & GPU.