Hey guys. Looking to help out a buddy and I am going to buy a graphics card for a PC I am giving him. While there plenty of reviews for newer and higher-end cards, info for sub 100 is almost nil. Anyone have any good suggestions? I was initially looking at a GT 730. Thanks!
RX 460 would be nice, but it's just over 100$ mark. Might be lucky if it on sale. Are you planning gaming on it?
Yes, just low end gaming for the most part. Older games like DDO, Starcraft etc. I was hoping it could be decent enough to maybe play battlegrounds. I know that game is currently unoptimized so it runs wonky no matter what you have. I do appreciate the recommendations.
I do see that RX460 is priced right where you guys mentioned it. I might go that way. There is a 2GB and a 4GB version. Any real benefit to 4GB on that card?
4GB would come in handy once you play modern games. RX460 actually not that bad to play modern games at medium/high settings. I'd highly recommend to get 4GB if you plan to keep it for a while.
Why dont you buy something used? R9 280X or R9 380 or gtx770 if you can find would smoke rx460 and 1050.
This is true. PSU is not awesome it's only a 380. But the other issue I have is while I do not need a half-height card I need one that's not crazy long.
Nothing is good for 100bucks.. unless second hand card. That would be atleast twice as fast as new 100bucks.
I'm not a big "Linus Tech Tips" fan (far from it actually), but on this one, I 100% agree with him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sph6cjJeRdI Bottom line: You pay $130 and get 30FPS. You pay $90 and get 7FPS. You save 20% money and get 500% less performance. So... uh, nope. Don't buy the absolute bottom cheapest "gaming" stuff, because in fact (and surprisingly) it's heavily overpriced for what it offers. If you want to go to the bottom, buy a $30 or $40 non-gaming GPU instead. It's just as useless for gaming, but it actually reflects that in its price.
Are we still on topic regarding 100$ cap? As for used GPU, I don't think it worth risking it, as OP clearly mentioned he not gonna massivly stress it. edit: I do agree about better price performance.
1050 would be pretty decent, but what I will say is if he can double his budget then he won't have to upgrade every year or two to keep up with trends.
I would recommend picking GeForce GTX 1050 Ti as some friends of mine don't have good experience with RX 460.
Can we stop with "my friends", please? If you had bad experience, say what it was. I mean "my friend" killed whole town by gaming on GTX1080Ti. Horrible. My another "friend" burned himself while making breakfast on Fury X. Horrible products, why would Nvidia and AMD make such horrible things.
1050/460 is all I see @that price....1050ti is over his budget. if you do consider the 1050ti take a look at 470/4804gb...only a few $$$ more.
If you are familiar GPUs, watch the used cards if you have Craigslist or something similar in your area. I saw a Gigabyte GTX960 mini (locally) for $100 last night. Perhaps some good deals are awaiting you there. Otherwise, something like a GTX1050 ($100) or a RX460 ($90) would be your best bets. This site ( gpu.userbenchmark.com ) has a nice, reasonably well tiered list of video cards and their pricing, as well as an intrinsic value formulated to assess the best current value (which is currently a GTX1060 3GB). It's a nice tool to compare older and newer stuff and the pricing in a quick round-up.
