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Alright, I've got a friend who's come to me with this.... he's trying to build a computer, (r3 1200) and is just wanting to get into gaming. He's bought everything..... but the graphics card and some extra case fans. He's using the Thermaltake Versa H15 (non-windowed version). What's worse, he's only got $70 left in the budget. There's no way we're picking up anything decent new, and the fan that's included looks like it belongs in the garbage disposal(plus it wouldn't be good to get a case that looks to be well ventilated, only not to use it). Any ideas or suggestions? Fyi, most of it was bought used, so returning things may be out of the question. He's also in a really rural area, and the nearest "city" is 4-5 hours from where they live.

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Go on eBay and hunt for used 7950/7970/280/280x's. They generally seem to bottom out around there.

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I'm just gonna list some options, in no particular order, because what you will get is kind of dictated by the market..

AMD: R9 270X, 280(X), HD 7950, 380.. That would be about the best options. I don't think you could get R9 290(x) cards for that price, unless you got extremely lucky.

Nvidia: GTX 760 cards are sometimes pretty decently priced, GTX 960 maybe?

 

You're probably best off just checking what you can get second hand for those prices and seeing what performs best.

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R9 380/x is the very best in that budget, and there are some decent ones:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-Strix-Radeon-R9-380-4GB-Gaming-GPU/323766030916?hash=item4b61f59244%3Ag%3A7W0AAOSwd-xcpiHs&LH_BIN=1&frcectupt=true

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look around for the 290(x), 390(x), 7970, 970, 780 ti, fury (x), nano, 380 (x), cards like that

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1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

970, 780 ti, fury (x), nano,

I'd love to find any of these a the $70 price point, especially the fury or nano

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Just now, fasauceome said:

I'd love to find any of these a the $70 price point, especially the fury or nano

me too, but if he does... i just listed them so he could look, here you can sometimes find 290's at the price

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For $70 you could probably get a GTX 960 or 970.

 

I managed to find a 970 for exactly $70 a little while ago, the card runs fine (it was owned by a smoker at some point, so I did have to deep clean the shroud and heatsink, but its fine now).

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Just showed today to someone a RX 470 4GB for $70 + shipping, US seller : https://www.ebay.com/itm/SAPPHIRE-NITRO-Radeon-RX-470-4GB-GDDR5-Video-Card/323765470043?epid=719465954&hash=item4b61ed035b%3Ag%3APeQAAOSwuTNcpZ-n&LH_BIN=1

 

An RX 470 8 GB for $75 + shipping, us seller : https://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Radeon-RX-470-XFX-8GB-Graphics-Card-GPU/173861955035?hash=item287afae5db%3Ag%3ADPgAAOSwTmpcgxJv&LH_BIN=1

 

Another for 80$ (4GB) : https://www.ebay.com/itm/PowerColor-Red-Devil-ATI-Radeon-RX-470-4GB-Gaming-Graphics-Card/273632546743?epid=2255765313&hash=item3fb5c54fb7%3Ag%3ABlEAAOSw8U9cKSwR&LH_BIN=1

 

The last two ones (and probably the first too) were used for mining, and the last even says it has modified bios but it's super easy to program the original bios on these cards and bring the card back to defaults.

 

A couple more for 79$ + shipping :

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SAPPHIRE-NITRO-Radeon-RX-470-4GB-GDDR5-Video-Card-Dual-HDMI-DVI-D-Dual-DP/254178344192?epid=719465954&hash=item3b2e35bd00%3Ag%3AuQUAAOSweqNcmm2j&LH_BIN=1

https://www.ebay.com/itm/XFX-RADEON-RX-470-RS-4GB-D6-XXX-HS-BP-3xDP-HDMI-DVI-470P4L-CARD-GRAPHIC-GPU/173776504579?hash=item2875e30703%3Ag%3AIfIAAOSwUpFcV0tK&LH_BIN=1

 

 

 

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I would stay away from anything with just 2gb vram. Only get 3gb+ models.

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6 hours ago, BluJay614 said:

Alright, I've got a friend who's come to me with this.... he's trying to build a computer, (r3 1200) and is just wanting to get into gaming. He's bought everything..... but the graphics card and some extra case fans. He's using the Thermaltake Versa H15 (non-windowed version). What's worse, he's only got $70 left in the budget. There's no way we're picking up anything decent new, and the fan that's included looks like it belongs in the garbage disposal(plus it wouldn't be good to get a case that looks to be well ventilated, only not to use it). Any ideas or suggestions? Fyi, most of it was bought used, so returning things may be out of the question. He's also in a really rural area, and the nearest "city" is 4-5 hours from where they live.

gtx 970 or 980 if ur lucky to find one

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