Which video card should i get?

[speedlingz]

Which video card can I get with a budget of around $50 to $150 dollars? I am not a hardcore gamer (I'm just a light gamer), but I am currently playing counter strike global offensive, my old video card ain't cutting it, so I want a new one. I am running an Antec VP-450 450 Watt Energy Star Certified Power Supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371045 with an intel e2160 dual core cpu overclocked to 3.0 ghz. Im running 2 gigs of ram with this motherboard. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059

I am just wondering, what video card can i handle around that price range with the power supply i currently have?

 

[ganoly3]

I would recommend an AMD Radeon 7770. This card requires very little juice and costs about $135 USD depending on where you buy it. I would also recommend adding a bit of ram as well, because it is a minor upgrade that can help ALOT. If possible, upgrade your processor as well, but it is not necessary.

 

[jemm]

Your power supply is enough for any card that your motherboard supports. However your motherboard expansion slots will limit your choice, as it has only 1 PCI Express X16 slot (plus PCI Express X1 slots and PCI slots).

VisionTek 900171 Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129089

Get more memory ram as you can place up to 8GB.

 

[BeastLeeX]

a 6670 is on the cheaper spectrum of graphics cards, but it leaves you room for a memory upgrade. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102988

 

[Deemo13]

I would upgrade the RAM and maybe go for a 6670 GDDR5 or a 7750.

 

[jemm]

The HD 7750 has a PCI Express 3.0, and the HD 6670 has a PCI Express 2.1 x16, while his motherboard has 1 PCI Express X16 -- these cards should not work in his mobo.

 

[BeastLeeX]

backwards capatability? Im pretty sure they will work, possibly not to there full potential though

 

[speedlingz]

so is it backwards compatible?

 

[Deemo13]

Yes it is.

 

[bigcyco1]

so is it backwards compatible?

Yes

 

[HEXiT]

if your motherboard has an nforce 450 /550 or better chipset then you can use any pci-e x16 gfx card you like regardless of whether there pci-e 2.0/2.1or 3.0 you may get a marginal reduction in performance like maybe 1-4% but thats not a huge amount. your real issue is the cpu being a dual core it will have more impact on your games than running a new gpu on an old pci-e slot... bf3 for instance will be unplayable with anything more than a gtx 250 due to bottlenecking.
playing counterstrike you wont have an issue as it only uses 1-1.5 cores so a 7770 would be a decent upgrade gfx wise...
but like i say if you try to play a game that requires more than 2 threads your gonna experience every gamers worst nightmare... low fps, stutter, fps bounce and so on.
so if i were you i would consider getting the gpu then saving up to get a minimum of a q8400 or possibly an i5 2500k to balance out the system

 

[speedlingz]

Judging by the choices, i am leaning towards the 7750 or 7770, but my friend said that I should get a 256 bit graphic cards..What should i do?

 

[BeastLeeX]

theoretically a 256-bit gpu is better then a 192 bit, but look at benchmarks. a $300 660 Ti is 192 bit and it is on par with the 7950 (384 bit) and beats the 580 (320 bit) in 1080p.

 

[ko888]

The Intel P35 Express Chipset on your GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L motherboard is only PCI Express Revision 1.1 so the PCIe x16 expansion slot's data rate is 4 GB/s (transfer rate is 40 GT/s).

 

[speedlingz]

The Intel P35 Express Chipset on your GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L motherboard is only PCI Express Revision 1.1 so the PCIe x16 expansion slot's data rate is 4 GB/s (transfer rate is 40 GT/s).

so what do you recommend?

 

[ko888]

so what do you recommend?

The Radeon HD 7770 or Radeon HD 7750 should work fine in a PCIe 1.1 x16 slot. The performance difference is only about 4% less than that of a PCIe 2.0 x16 or a PCIe 3.0 x16 @ x8 slot.

 

[bigcyco1]

The Radeon HD 7770 or Radeon HD 7750 should work fine in a PCIe 1.1 x16 slot. The performance difference is only about 4% less than that of a PCIe 2.0 x16 or a PCIe 3.0 x16 @ x8 slot.

Hey mate my buddy is going to run wait for it .... quad 480's i guess he could just stop using his heater and try and balance out the cost that way anyway i wanted to ask you what psu is he going to need i was thinking this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151109 i think it will be but i am not sure any advice aside from not to run four 480's :lol:

 

[ko888]

Hey mate my buddy is going to run wait for it .... quad 480's i guess he could just stop using his heater and try and balance out the cost that way anyway i wanted to ask you what psu is he going to need i was thinking this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151109 i think it will be but i am not sure any advice aside from not to run four 480's :lol:

If you read Guru3D's GeForce GTX 480 4-way SLI review you will see that they reached a system power consumption of 1188 Watts under load with a non-overclocked CPU and four non-overclocked GPUs.

When the CPU and the four GPUs were overclocked the system power consumption reached 1529 Watts under load.

That Seasonic X-1250, that you've linked to, is only sufficient if you don't overclock.

If you overclock the CPU and GPUs then something along the lines of this is what you'll need: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256054

Or you can use two power supply units.

 

[bigcyco1]

If you read Guru3D's GeForce GTX 480 4-way SLI review you will see that they reached a system power consumption of 1188 Watts under load with a non-overclocked CPU and four non-overclocked GPUs.

When the CPU and the four GPUs were overclocked the system power consumption reached 1529 Watts under load.

That Seasonic X-1250, that you've linked to, is only sufficient if you don't overclock.

If you overclock the CPU and GPUs then something along the lines of this is what you'll need: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256054

Or you can use two power supply units.

Thanks i appreciate it!