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Cheap graphics card to upgrade prebuilt

AndreiArgeanu
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Hi. So I recently bought a dell optiplex with an i3 3220, soon I will upgrade to an i5 3570 or a Xeon. Now, I am currently looking for a graphics card, something that would be better than my previous 1050 mobile on the laptop I have currently. Now just for refference a 750ti trades blows with the 1050 I previouslt mentioned. Now for a budget  I want the card to be under 50£/$. At the very moment I do not really care if the card bottlenecks the i3 or has extra power connectors.

Now for starters, at CEX (similar to GameStop but in UK), I found a gtx 760 for 45£ (somehow 5£ less than a 750 ti) and there is the 660ti 3gb for 40£ (2£ less than the 2gb version) and the gtx 670 2gb at 38£.

 

Which one of those cards would be best?

Do you have any other suggestions?

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try finding used cards, you souhl finr 780 with under 50 bucks used. or go with gtx 760.

I Use my knowledge as business owner and self taught technician aswell as an AI to help people. AI might be controversial but it actually works pretty well 90% of the time.

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2 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

try finding used cards, you souhl finr 780 with under 50 bucks used. or go with gtx 760.

that doesn't really work out sadly. The cheapest 780 I could find was 50£ on the FB Marketplace but it's a 3hr drive all the way to the north of England and then another 3 hours back. The cheapest card on ebay was 48£ but it was some questionable chinese brand which would probably send a gt 710 with some modified bios. Anything below was spares or repair and the next thing would be 75£.

I wish the market here was like in America but sadly it isn't anything like it.

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti-Superclocked-w-EVGA-ACX-Cooler-9029/333378256836?hash=item4d9ee47fc4:g:YO8AAOSwCRhdt1jx

 

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-780-03G-P4-2784-KR/223620482062?epid=220472314&hash=item3410d1c40e:g:vZ0AAOSwTBtdOz1M

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/FOR-PARTS-EVGA-Nvidia-GTX-780-4GB-CLASSIFIED-EDITION-Defective-NO-VIDEO/113951793007?hash=item1a880e5f6f:g:amEAAOSwLQhdwlRW

 

all top rated sellers

 

 

I Use my knowledge as business owner and self taught technician aswell as an AI to help people. AI might be controversial but it actually works pretty well 90% of the time.

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2 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti-Superclocked-w-EVGA-ACX-Cooler-9029/333378256836?hash=item4d9ee47fc4:g:YO8AAOSwCRhdt1jx

 

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-780-03G-P4-2784-KR/223620482062?epid=220472314&hash=item3410d1c40e:g:vZ0AAOSwTBtdOz1M

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/FOR-PARTS-EVGA-Nvidia-GTX-780-4GB-CLASSIFIED-EDITION-Defective-NO-VIDEO/113951793007?hash=item1a880e5f6f:g:amEAAOSwLQhdwlRW

 

all top rated sellers

 

 

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I have tried looking at US listings but this is the thing that always puts me off sadly.

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