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Cheap graphics card to run Fallout 4?

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I'm not really sure where to post this but any help would be greatly appreciated, I used to keep really up to date on graphics cards and the like, up until about a year or 2 ago, and now I fear I'm too out of touch to give good advice to myself or others on what graphics card to get for good price:performance.

 

I'm on a very low and tight budget at the moment but I desperately want to play Fallout 4 when it arrives on Tuesday. I currenlty have

 

8GB of DDR3 RAM.

 

Intel Pentium G860 CPU.

 

and a horrible ATI 3600-something Radeon HD old school GPU.

 

clearly here the bottleneck would be my CPU and GPU, but my GPU is much more out of date than my CPU, I believe my CPU paired with a better GPU would give me good enough performance to play Fallout 4 on low-medium settings comfortably.

 

TL;DR:

 

Can anyone suggest a good GPU to get secondhand or cheap for good price:performance? I'm on a budget of around £50 maximum, ideally I wouldn't like to spend that much. I know this is asking a lot, but any help would be appreciated as I'm so out of touch I'll probably end up getting a R7 250 or something.

 

Lots of love for this community, sorry if I've posted it in the wrong place.

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750ti

and OC it

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750ti

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i would say get like a 7870, you may be able to find one used online 

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Well quad core is minimum spec so it may just not even run very well with your dual core... 270x  or 370 would be my minimum suggestion. Save your money. Dont buy a r7 250.

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Go used or 750ti

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The r7 250 should work, but it only has 1GB of VRAM. I would suggest a used 750ti and overclocking it. The 750ti also doesn't need any external power connectors, it powers itself off of your PCI-E slot. 

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Would you be willing to upgrade your CPU to something like this? It uses the same socket but has hyperthreading so you can play the games that require a quad core. It would also be less likely to bottleneck the newer graphics cards. http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i3-2100-Dual-Core-Processor-Cache/dp/B004JEVGMO

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Would you be willing to upgrade your CPU to something like this? It uses the same socket but has hyperthreading so you can play the games that require a quad core. It would also be less likely to bottleneck the newer graphics cards. http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i3-2100-Dual-Core-Processor-Cache/dp/B004JEVGMO

I'm only using the G860 because it's what I had before I upgraded to an i5 2500k, back in the long days when 1155 reigned supreme.(I simply can't afford the upgrade, one of the reasons I sold it)

 

even the GTX 750 Ti used is about £20-30 out of my price range, any other suggestions? Also why not the 250? I know I won't enjoy the experience as much as a 750 ti, but it should be enough, no? =/

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I'm only using the G860 because it's what I had before I upgraded to an i5 2500k, back in the long days when 1155 reigned supreme.(I simply can't afford the upgrade, one of the reasons I sold it)

 

even the GTX 750 Ti used is about £20-30 out of my price range, any other suggestions? Also why not the 250? I know I won't enjoy the experience as much as a 750 ti, but it should be enough, no? =/

Could a R7 260x work?

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second hand GTX670 is a good choice, its comparable to a gtx950 in performance, might even out perform it... but really should cost about 70 GBP rather than the 115 GBP or so of the 950.

 

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/6078894/fs/6183883

 

thats a comaprison of a 950 system (slight overclock) and a 670 system (ITX based card (note, TINY) on stock clocks)

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