Graphics card advice for graphics work budget $200

[Astrogirl]

Hi, I think I need to upgrade my current graphics card but not sure if worth

doing yet and what card is best for my price range $200 AUD. Suggestions

welcome.

A year ago I upgraded my CPU to a quad core i5-2310 2.9 GHz. Motherboard is

MSI H61M-P2 B3 and RAM 8GB. Current graphics is ATI Sapphire Radeon HD 2400

PRO (prob over 4 years old card). My monitor current res max is 1920x1080

24" Ben Q - has VGA and DVI ports. I also hook up an old Viewsonic VGA G790

Monitor (but not essential that I can use this with card as my PC has VGA

port).

When using a graphics intensive program called HyperStudio it often crashes

on W8 (trial I am using) and more often on my XP - dual boot. Also in future

hope to develop apps on it for Windows and make multimedia programs. So

maybe this justifies upgrading as I intend to use this program a lot on

Windows 8 when I upgrade. I hope to purchase this card in next 2 months and

also update to Windows 8.

I searched elsewhere and found that the ATI Radeon HD 6950 said to best for

video and graphics editing, however I can't find it at my store, maybe under

another name?

This is the site I may purchase from (in Australia)

http://www.cnettech.com.au/Products.aspx?cid=2830

Unsure as to what card to get but this one is in my budget -
Asus - GeForce® GTX650, 1GB GDDR5, 1058 MHz, DVI*2, D-SUB, Native HDMI,

PCIe3.0 (GTX650-DC-1GD5)
Is this a suitable card according to my requirements and current PC specs and

similar to the ATI HD 6950? Not sure if the PCie3 will fit my motherboard

and if I install it as an addon card does that replace any inbuilt graphics

or override it?

These are what I am looking for in a card:
- edit videos and graphics efficiently
- not too concerned about 3D gaming
- will be using a lot of Windows 8 apps in future
- WDDM and CUDA compatible
- updatable to next ver direct x
- to last me at least 3-5 years
- the Windows experience index of my system says overall 3.8 due to graphics

card for windows aero being listed at 3.8 but 3D and gaming is at 5.8. So a

card that gives me a higher index is preferred.
- overclocking - prefer to avoid
- card with its own fan preferred if safer for PC

Current power supply: unsure but I have 8 GB ram running on a Windows 8 CP

and it works well.

Other requirements of this card can you please confirm:
What power supply is best for it?
Will it be compatible with Windows XP and W7 as well as W8?
I run some older 98se programs on my windows XP (mostly kids educational

programs)- will changing the card mean I have to reinstall a lot of these

programs and will they still work?

 

[sunnk]

that site u gave was not working properly thats why i used this one

if u can afford $40 then this will be a very good choice

http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/189611/VIDEOCARDS_RADEON_7000_SERIES/Sapphire/11200-00-41G.asp

or this for just $213.

http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/206853/VIDEOCARDS_RADEON_7000_SERIES/PowerColor/AX7850-1GBD5-DH.asp

or if u cant afford then try to get the gtx 650 ti dont buy gtx 650 it isnt that powerful card it is about as hd 7750 in performance

i would say better go with the hd 7850 its the best card for price performance plus its a very good overclocking gpu too.if u can then buy hd 7850 goodluck

 

[Wisecracker]

FirePro V4900

 

[Astrogirl]

Thanks guys I will look into these.

 

[Astrogirl]

I ended up getting some time later after looking at more reviews, the 570 RX 8GB Sapphire Pulse Card supposed to match up to the 1050Ti Geforce. Just not working in its overclocking Game default mode but posts in Bios compute mode to screen. Has anyone had similar issues with their card - not sure if card fault or my old cpu and mainboard? Will prob need to upgrade rest my stuff soon anyway.