GPU for older games

[Yeetr171]

I need a really cheap single slot GPU (sub 30$) for games like COD WaW, Fallout 3/NV, Half Life 1 and 2, COD BO1, and Borderlands 2/1 at 60fps med to high settings.

[MS-DOS Guy]

This is a great cpu for older titles.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BFG-Tech-nVidia-Geforce-GTX-280-1-GB-DDR3-Video-Card-Cheap-Read/153774314036?hash=item23cda9d234:g:YcwAAOSwNw1eAykK

You could also grab a 9800 gt 512mb on ebay for pretty cheap nowadays, maybe cheaper but I'm not sure on that. Regardlessly, the graphical fidelity of both of those cards still hold true nowadays. I know that the 9800 gt puts out less performance however so I think I would go for the 280. 

 

[BTGbullseye]

10 minutes ago, MS-DOS Guy said:

This is a great cpu for older titles.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BFG-Tech-nVidia-Geforce-GTX-280-1-GB-DDR3-Video-Card-Cheap-Read/153774314036?hash=item23cda9d234:g:YcwAAOSwNw1eAykK

You could also grab a 9800 gt 512mb on ebay for pretty cheap nowadays, maybe cheaper but I'm not sure on that. Regardlessly, the graphical fidelity of both of those cards still hold true nowadays. I know that the 9800 gt puts out less performance however so I think I would go for the 280. 

 

The 1GB of VRAM on the 280 is actually pretty important for the CoD games, and Fallout 3 if he uses a high-res pack.

[Yeetr171]

1 hour ago, BTGbullseye said:

The 1GB of VRAM on the 280 is actually pretty important for the CoD games, and Fallout 3 if he uses a high-res pack.

would a gt 740 2gb ddr3 work for those titles

 

[BTGbullseye]

12 hours ago, Yeetr171 said:

would a gt 740 2gb ddr3 work for those titles

 

Should work just fine, though it will be a downgrade in performance by quite a bit, despite the higher memory capacity. DDR3 is really poor performance for GPU usage, and GPUs really need fast high-bandwidth RAM to perform well. GDDR3 is much faster than DDR3 for GPU usage. If you can find one with GDDR5, that would be a massive performance boost, and will support pretty much everything you could throw at it that was made before 2016. (and it'll run 2012 and earlier games at good framerates with high settings)