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Building a $250 pc for a friend and need help deciding between the r9 270 and GTX 660. It's being paired with an Optiplex 760 board, 4x2gb of Hynix ddr2-800, 64gb ssd and 500gb HDD. 

I know the r9 has slightly newer drivers and better support for newer games so I'm leaning towards it. Both cards are about $80 on ebay. 

Any input would be appreciated!

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I thought it was the other way around for driver support? Nvidia dropped support for Kepler in august, while AMD did for the R9 series back towards the beginning of the year (I forget exactly when). I'd probably go for the 660 because of that.

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Get a GPU that can have the latest drivers. I had a 660Ti for awhile and it ran well but with driver support ending you may not be able to play future games going forward.

GAMING RIG:

CPU: Ryzen 5 5800X3D

MOBO: ASUS TUF Gaming X570 PLUS (Wi-Fi)

RAM: 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws @ 3600MHz

GPU: PowerColor Fighter RX 6700 XT

STORAGE: 500GB Crucial MX500 M.2 (Boot Drive) / 500GB Crucial SATA / 1TB WD HDD

CASE: Dimas Tech EasyBench V3.0

 

VR RIG:

CPU: Ryzen 7 5700x

MOBO: MSI B550 Gaming GEN3

RAM: 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws @ 3600MHz

GPU: Zotac AMP! 2080 Super

STORAGE: 250GB ADATA SSD / 500GB WD Blue SSD / 1TB WD Blue HD

 

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17 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

$250 pc for a friend and need help deciding between the r9 270 and GTX 660. It's being paired with an Optiplex 760 board, 4x2gb of Hynix ddr2-800, 64gb ssd and 500gb HDD. 

a core2duo pc for 250 is sad.

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Yu could probably have got a much better PC on Ebay for the same sum.

I recently got an i7 with 16GB RAM and what appeared to be a new M/B for £102 delivered.

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2 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Core 2 quad. 

not much difference...

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41 minutes ago, adarw said:

not much difference...

That's like saying there's not much difference between a 10100F and a 10700F.

 

On the one hand, they're basically the same, because of the architecture. On the other hand, they're very different, because the latter has double the cores.

 

And I imagine that 12 years from now, someone is going to have this exact same type of conversation about those two chips.

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1 hour ago, adarw said:

not much difference...

The performance difference is enormous because i have done such an upgrade a few months back.

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