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Rec. A Video card for around $200?
I have been "out of the loop" for several years and am wanting to upgrade my video card and am hoping you can help me. My budget is around $200. It will mainly be used for gaming (GW2/WH40K Eternal Crusade/ Diablo3 etc) Here are some specs for my PC and thank you in advance for any help you can give me. I have seen many people complain about driver issues with Radeon cards, is this still an issue? I have no problems with AMD/Radeon or NVIDIA but would it be better to go with AMD/Radeon since alot of the current components are AMD/Radeon? Are there any Vid card companies I should shy away from such as Saphire/HIS/Gigabyte/MSI etc etc? There is so much information out there its giving me an overload.

ASUS PC (M51BC)
ASUS Mobo M5A97 pciExp16
Proc=AMD FX-6300
RAM=8gigs

Also I am sure I will have to upgrade my power supply as well to run the new video card, I just need to be pointed in the right direction. Thank you again for any help/suggestions you can give me.
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a b U Graphics card
September 7, 2014 3:44:20 PM

the 270x is better than the 750ti.

id think the problems are fixed, but you never know. there will always be complaints about different venders cards.

the 280 is around $200 as well though, heres some cards:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-r9280dc2t3...
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr928...
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100373...

this one is 200 but with the rebate, but is probably the most recommended. the windforce has a higher clock speed, but people semm to have issues with it.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-r9280gaming...
September 7, 2014 3:34:48 PM

Thank you for the help. I noticed the suggested card has 128 bit and was thinking I should go for 256? Any thoughts on this ASUS card I'll link below? Some complaints being made about drivers problems and bios updates needed, does anyone know if this is still a problem?
ASUS DirectCU II R9270X-DC2T-2GD5 Radeon R9 270X 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
a b U Graphics card
September 5, 2014 6:06:29 PM

A 750Ti is exactly what you need.

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