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Hey! I was just wondering if you know some games that dont require a +100$ grapgics card. I mean like a: GTX 580 or 560ti. I have a GTX 275 myself, bought it because i only wanted to play CS:GO on it.

My whole system is a 3570k, 8Gb ram, GTX 275. I have a 500w 80 plus silver, so it would be nice if you also could recommend a gpu that does ot require more than 500w. 

 

I am playing l4d2, and looking to buy Just Cause 2 or Sniper Elite 3, if the gpu can handle it. 

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Insurgency.

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Hey! I was just wondering if you know some games that dont require a +100$ grapgics card. I mean like a: GTX 580 or 560ti. I have a GTX 275 myself, bought it because i only wanted to play CS:GO on it.

My whole system is a 3570k, 8Gb ram, GTX 275. I have a 500w 80 plus silver, so it would be nice if you also could recommend a gpu that does ot require more than 500w. 

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Battleblock theater.

Ketchup is better than mustard.

GUI is better than Command Line Interface.

Dubs are better than subs

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Minecraft ^_^

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garys mod

and a new indie game thats comming to steam in a bit called scraps, its sortof a make-a-car-and-kill-all-other-cars kind of thing thats pritty fun theres a demo thats free if you just google scraps game

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street legal racing redline. minecraft, the sims 4 actually plays on my GT610 on high at 60FPS, surprisingly. also, SimCity is another good one.

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Portal ran pretty well on a GT555M but not sure how it stacks up to a GTX 275.

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OK, question to the OP, how do you have a 3570K and only a 275?

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Portal ran pretty well on a GT555M but not sure how it stacks up to a GTX 275.

Portal 2 runs well on my PC too, so that should say quite a bit ;)

(Portal and Source engine as a whole is more CPU based)

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Borderlands 2

Bioshock

Company of Heroes (Series)

Dawn of War (Series)

Deus Ex Human Revolution

Dishonored

Don't Starve

Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning

Skyrim

Killing Floor

Payday 2

Running with Rifles

Spintires

Stardrive

TERA

Torchlight II

Fallout 3

Fallout New Vegas

Supreme Commander

Supreme Commander Forged Alliance

Rainbow Six Vegas 2

World of Tanks

War Thunder

Path of Exile

FEAR (Series)

 

I've run all of these on a GTS 250, your 275 should handle them just fine.

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Haha, i used all my $$$ on my cpu and motherboard (MSI mpower z77). Didnt need a good gpu, since csgo was the only game i played, now it got kinda boring and i want to upgrade. I

also live in Noway, so its not many used cards to buy. A new GTX 970 costs 3500 NOK or 445 dollars. Dont know if its cheaper in US @terrytek

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Obvious: Any source-valve game (HL series, TF2, and Portal in particular), Minecraft, etc.

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, a bit childish but still fun in my opinion.

Sim City 4, great city building game.

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Obvious: Any source-valve game (HL series, TF2, and Portal in particular), Minecraft, etc.

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, a bit childish but still fun in my opinion.

Sim City 4, great city building game.

You seriously just spoke my mind. I loved those games to death. Especially RCT 3. I can't stop playing that game for hours.

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My whole system is a 3570k, 8Gb ram, GTX 275. I have a 500w 80 plus silver, so it would be nice if you also could recommend a gpu that does ot require more than 500w. 

 

GTX 980/ti

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Portal ran pretty well on a GT555M but not sure how it stacks up to a GTX 275.

portal runs on potato :D

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Haha, i used all my $$$ on my cpu and motherboard (MSI mpower z77). Didnt need a good gpu, since csgo was the only game i played, now it got kinda boring and i want to upgrade. I

also live in Noway, so its not many used cards to buy. A new GTX 970 costs 3500 NOK or 445 dollars. Dont know if its cheaper in US @terrytek

 

You could also look into buying an AMD card, if any of the R# 200 series are still available, they should be stupidly cheap at this point. You could easily get a R9 270 or even 280 for cheaper than a 960 and get better or similar performance (depending on the card).

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I'm playing arkham knight with a 560ti right now

I played the Evil Within on it and the witcher 3,

I don't think there are any recent games that "require" high end graphics

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OK, question to the OP, how do you have a 3570K and only a 275?

 

I had the same but a GT610 for 1 1/2 years. 

I could not watch 1080p YouTube with my other monitor on or it would lag. 

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