A GPU for my parents

[Raphhashem]

My parents are using a pc with integrated 760g graphics. Its coupled with a 1080p monitor and everything visual just lags. It runs linux and is mainly used for virtualisation and work, not so much gaming, ever. I was thinking of chucking in an HD6450 due to it's £30 price tag. However the R7 240 is £50 and I was wondering if it's worth the extra cash. I saw linus's "hate" video so I'm a lil' bit put off by the R7 240. What do you guys think I should do?

[Chriz6097]

Both cards suck for anything but will do in your case...

edit: the benchmarks for the 240 make it better for the price if you were willing to spend more.

[tryphaa]

My parents are using a pc with integrated 760g graphics. Its coupled with a 1080p monitor and everything visual just lags. It runs linux and is mainly used for virtualisation and work, not so much gaming, ever. I was thinking of chucking in an HD6450 due to it's £30 price tag. However the R7 240 is £50 and I was wondering if it's worth the extra cash. I saw linus's "hate" video so I'm a lil' bit put off by the R7 240. What do you guys think I should do?

Im 99% he means if you're buying it with the intent on gaming. It should be just fine for your use.

[Wiflare]

My parents are using a pc with integrated 760g graphics. Its coupled with a 1080p monitor and everything visual just lags. It runs linux and is mainly used for virtualisation and work, not so much gaming, ever. I was thinking of chucking in an HD6450 due to it's £30 price tag. However the R7 240 is £50 and I was wondering if it's worth the extra cash. I saw linus's "hate" video so I'm a lil' bit put off by the R7 240. What do you guys think I should do?

What programs do your parents work with?

[s3ns3]

is the driver for integrated graphics installed ?

[dizmo]

Go with whatever's cheapest if it's just running office software.

[Aniallation]

What's wrong with integrated graphics? 760G isn't graphics by the way it's chipset. I've used two 760G mobos and one had Radeon HD 3000 and one had Radeon HD 4250. The 3000 was quite slow but the 4250 is perfectly fine for office, internet, and heck, even light gaming. It gives about identical performance to an 8500GT. I ran MW3 on it at 720p medium settings and it still handled it without a hitch.

 

If you're really willing to get a low end GPU for these purposes, just get whatever's cheapest. In this case the 6450 but you might find a 5450 or GT510 for cheaper. The 240 is overpriced for the performance it gives.

 

If your parent's PC has some sort of mediocre PSU power you can find used cards for the price of a McDonalds meal that outperform the 6450, 240, and whatnot. I saw a Quadro FX 1500 (GeForce 7900) on my local classifieds the other day for ten bucks.

[_ASSASSIN_]

if it's just purely for output then the r7 240 shouldn't be a problem

[Raphhashem]

What's wrong with integrated graphics? 760G isn't graphics by the way it's chipset. I've used two 760G mobos and one had Radeon HD 3000 and one had Radeon HD 4250. The 3000 was quite slow but the 4250 is perfectly fine for office, internet, and heck, even light gaming. It gives about identical performance to an 8500GT. I ran MW3 on it at 720p medium settings and it still handled it without a hitch.

 

If you're really willing to get a low end GPU for these purposes, just get whatever's cheapest. In this case the 6450 but you might find a 5450 or GT510 for cheaper. The 240 is overpriced for the performance it gives.

 

If your parent's PC has some sort of mediocre PSU power you can find used cards for the price of a McDonalds meal that outperform the 6450, 240, and whatnot. I saw a Quadro FX 1500 (GeForce 7900) on my local classifieds the other day for ten bucks.

 

It's the HD3000 version. I have a spare G210 card but that seems even worse. Its basic animations like expose that come with linux mint that really just annoy me. I don't want any gaming done on it, just a card that won't lag opening and closing windows. MAYBE the ability to play basic games but really a smooth experience will do.

 

All the gaming is done on my rig, and if I need to, I'll use "steam streaming" to the workstation pc.

[Aniallation]

It's the HD3000 version. I have a spare G210 card but that seems even worse. Its basic animations like expose that come with linux mint that really just annoy me. I don't want any gaming done on it, just a card that won't lag opening and closing windows. MAYBE the ability to play basic games but really a smooth experience will do.

 

All the gaming is done on my rig, and if I need to, I'll use "steam streaming" to the workstation pc.

 

It would technically be quite faster then the HD3000. However Linux drivers really messes up the whole food chain when it comes to video cards. 

 

If you can, the 6570 is a good performer for the price. 

[Luke]

I have a GT 430 1GB in my HTPC that i bought for $29 on ebay and it plays 1080p video perfectly, It even played LoL on max settings.....I'd personally look around for a cheap used card. 

[-rascal-]

It's the HD3000 version. I have a spare G210 card but that seems even worse. Its basic animations like expose that come with linux mint that really just annoy me. I don't want any gaming done on it, just a card that won't lag opening and closing windows. MAYBE the ability to play basic games but really a smooth experience will do.

 

All the gaming is done on my rig, and if I need to, I'll use "steam streaming" to the workstation pc.

 

A NVidia Geforce G210 may be the bottom-of-the-barrel from the 200 series, but it is certainly better than the Integrated Radeon HD 3000.

 

From experience, the G210 has plenty of compute power for visuals, HD content (movies, etc), and even some light gaming on moderate graphical settings.

The reason for the lower than expected performance can very well be due to the lack of driver support / driver optimisation for Linux.

 

What version of Linux is running on your parent's computer? Ubuntu?

[Raphhashem]

A NVidia Geforce G210 may be the bottom-of-the-barrel from the 200 series, but it is certainly better than the Integrated Radeon HD 3000.

 

From experience, the G210 has plenty of compute power for visuals, HD content (movies, etc), and even some light gaming on moderate graphical settings.

The reason for the lower than expected performance can very well be due to the lack of driver support / driver optimisation for Linux.

 

What version of Linux is running on your parent's computer? Ubuntu?

Linux mint, 16 cinnamon. Are you sure its drivers? The system the GT210 lives in at the moment is on windows 7, it can't even handle BBC iPlayer on HD with the desktop resolution at 1080p.

[-rascal-]

Linux mint, 16 cinnamon. Are you sure its drivers? The system the GT210 lives in at the moment is on windows 7, it can't even handle BBC iPlayer on HD with the desktop resolution at 1080p.

 

I helped install two GeForce G210 graphics cards in two different computers. One was with a Athlon 64 X2 3800+, and the other was an Athlon II X2 250. Both are on Windows 7. The purpose of the systems are for HD content (i.e. movies), web-surfing, photo viewing and editing, basic day-to-day office tasks, and light gaming (both single player and multiplayer). The G210 does the job nicely.

 

The owner was able to play DMC quite smoothly on reduced details (don't recall what graphics settings), along with a bit of CS:GO and StarCraft 2.

 

This was all done at 1080p.