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Talked it down to 100$, hopefully, after the initial tests, I will be still happy

Pulled the trigger on a Sapphire Nitro RX470 8GB version. I got it for ~107 USD. Hopefully, it will last a few years.

Well, my country is only as big as some US states itself ... Price is almost the same, there's only a 2-10 USD fluctuation in the whole region.

In my region, these are the prices I would pay straight, to get the goods. Here the +TAX/VAT stuff is not a thing, at least for regular (non-business) consumers.

Converted.

Well, it's basicly a brand new RX 470. Here the least expensive RX 570 (new) costs like 160$. I found an ad about an R9 Fury for the same price (~160$)

It's also from a mining rig for that price. I can get a Sapphire RX470 with reference cooler for a little more, which is basicly brand new.

Got an other "deal" locally. RX 470/4G for like ~115 $. Is that a better deal?

It would be this card (Sapphire 7970 GHz Edition 3GB Vapor-X): http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=983B35F1-0361-49C3-9298-D35CF776A7A5

Will my PSU handle it, for sure?

Then an R9 380/4G for like 100 USD?

be quiet!'s PSU calculator shown that my 500W would be stressed at like 94% with that 7970 GHz Edition card. Isn't that too much tho'?

I'm kinda worried about the power consumption of these AMD cards. Is the 960/2G a good deal for that price? The model is:https://www.asus.com/us/Graphics-Cards/TURBOGTX960OC2GD5/overview/

The other option, a "deal" I got lined up, is a 7970 GHZ Edition/3G for like 72$. It's almost identical to the 280x. Bu I think, it's a worst price/performance deal, tho' it has 1GB more VRAM.

58 USD for a 960/2G?

Well, the 1660 and 1660Ti, also RX580 are like +300 USD here. So that's not a valid option for me, unfortunatelly. Others you mentioned are +200 USD here, brand new... Regarding that I got this i5 based rig, for about 160 $, I don't rly want to surpass that price alone for the GPU. So the limit is like 150-ish USD:

be quiet! System Power 9 500W It's nothing fancy, but I think it's decent, and 80+ Bronze qualified.

Hi guys, I lately got an i5-6500 based rig, with 16 GB of RAM. Currently I have a GTX 660, but it kinda bottlenecks the CPU. (CPU sits around 60% in Metro Exodus, while the GPU is sweatin' ). I overclocked it, got about 10% gain, but the power and voltage limit is terribly low... In your opinion, what would be a great GPU to match the configuration? I have a kind of quality 500W PSU. I'm mainly searcing the best price/performance card, that will also fit the PSU's ability, so used GPU suggestions are OK too. Thanks for advises in advance!

I think haven't mentioned at all, that it's a great way to upgrade but it's a solution. Tho' I think a second-hand solution would cost the fraction of a new like AM4 based system with mobo,CPU and RAM.

There's no AM4 motherboard with DDR3 to my best knowledge. What you can possibly do, is to flip those DDR3 modules (as well as your old components), to get a kickback from those parts. An other road you could take, is to watch out for a littlebit older (possibly used) Intel solutions, like 6.th gen, that supports DDR3. Edit: a board like this (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170-HD3-DDR3-rev-10#ov) and an i7-6XXX or i7-7XXX would be an upgrade IMO.

How could you possibly "skip" it?

LAwLz's words confirmed...

Thanks for the help guys! I bought the i5 deal. I haven't have time so far to test, tho' it posts, and the OS boots up w/o a problem. All RAM recognised, CPU runnin' cool with the TX3i. AIDA64 stress test and memtest sessions coming soon

Sorry, the global site mentions NVMe, the one (local) only tells the following: "PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 Connector with up to 32Gb/s Data Transfer (PCIe & SATA SSD support)" Thank you mate!

Hi guys, I have a Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H DDR3 motherboard, and it has an M.2 slot. I want to use it, for SSD storage, tho' I tried to research the topic, and it turned out, that M.2 in general is a more complicated story, with these 'M' , 'B' & 'M' keys stuff. Not only that, but it turned out that even on PCIe SSD-s, there's AHCI mode.... I'm kinda flod with these informations. TL;DR Can a Kingston A1000 240 GB NVMe SSD work together with my formentioned (Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H DDR3) motherboard, in PCIe NVMe mode? Thank you in advance!