ATI or Nvidia GPU for 50 bucks? Preferable 1gig VRAM

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ATI or Nvidia GPU for 50 bucks? Preferable 1gig VRAM

Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:15 am

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Re: ATI or Nvidia GPU for 50 bucks? Preferable 1gig VRAM

Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:46 am

I don't know of any from my list of trusted companies.
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Re: ATI or Nvidia GPU for 50 bucks? Preferable 1gig VRAM

Fri Oct 21, 2011 3:59 am

The problem with GPU's is that to keep it cheap you need to sacrifice quite a lot of quality. I took the liberty of finding one that I know to be quite reliable http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130501
but its as much quality as you can get for $54. If I were you I would start saving up for a GTX 460 or something and get the most out of your dollar.
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Re: ATI or Nvidia GPU for 50 bucks? Preferable 1gig VRAM

Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:15 am

HEY my 9600GT works fine!
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Re: ATI or Nvidia GPU for 50 bucks? Preferable 1gig VRAM

Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:41 pm

Yeah i dont have much of a budget Xd
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Re: ATI or Nvidia GPU for 50 bucks? Preferable 1gig VRAM

Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:45 pm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814500213
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Re: ATI or Nvidia GPU for 50 bucks? Preferable 1gig VRAM

Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:55 am

I would say to save up for at least an HD 5770 or something around the $100 mark. Or a HD 6770 for £100 in the UK. I think the 5770 is being discontinued on most UK sites I look at now.

Even if your current GPU is crap its probably not even worth upgrading for $50/£50/50 whatevers.
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Re: ATI or Nvidia GPU for 50 bucks? Preferable 1gig VRAM

Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:15 pm

If his GPU is DirectX 9 or something it might be worth upgrading to a DirectX 10/11 GPU, even if it's one of those crap low-profile cards.
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