What gpu should I buy?

[SarfM786]

 

Intel Core i5-650 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor

MSI H55M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1156 Motherboard

4gb ram 

600w 

 

What graphics card should I buy?

[m0k]

GTX 750ti or GTX 950

[aisle9]

What games do you want to play? What resolution?

[Guest]

Maybe you have a reason for this, but why are you only getting 4gb ram? 8GB should be a priority tbh

[Techicolors]

yeah i would try to get 8gb of ram 

[SarfM786]

Just now, vbest said:

Maybe you have a reason for this, but why are you only getting 4gb ram? 8GB should be a priority tbh

Its a 5 year old PC 

5 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

What games do you want to play? What resolution?

Just the best gpu possible that wont bottleneck 

[TheRandomness]

Just now, Sarfaraz said:

Its a 5 year old PC 

Just the best gpu possible that wont bottleneck 

RX 460.

[xgn]

Buy a 1060 on black friday.

[SarfM786]

Just now, xgn said:

Buy a 1060 on black friday.

wouldnt that bottleneck 

[xgn]

1 minute ago, Sarfaraz said:

wouldnt that bottleneck 

Yea i think it will actually just slightly. Get a RX 470. I dont think 1060 will bottleneck in a way that make games choppy and unplayable. But maybe not used to its full potential.

[zachmullin]

2 minutes ago, Sarfaraz said:

wouldnt that bottleneck 

depends on the game

[kaiju_wars]

Who cares if it's a 5 year old PC.  Get 8GB of RAM in there and an RX 460 would be the best pair.

[aisle9]

3 hours ago, Sarfaraz said:

Its a 5 year old PC 

Just the best gpu possible that wont bottleneck 

"Bottleneck". I hate that word. Here's the deal with bottlenecks: if you're putting a modern GPU in with a five-year-old CPU, anything worth buying will bottleneck. If you're not planning on upgrading that PC ever, then sure, buy a used GTX 750 Ti for $60. If you are planning on upgrading and you have a couple of CPUs in mind, then buy a GPU suited to those, and frag-all whatever it does to your current CPU.

 

If I were in your shoes, I'd buy a nicer, more modern GPU like a 470, 480 or 1060 or nicer, if you plan to go for an i5 or i7, regardless of when you plan to upgrade, unless you're just going to ride that Clarkdale into the sunset. That way, when you do upgrade, you'll be happy that you put up with a mild bottleneck (and with an i5-650, the bottleneck on an RX 460 would be very mild), because then you'd have a GPU perfectly suited for your i3-7100 (or whatever) instead of going, "Dammit, my CPU can handle Star Citizen, but I've got this stupid R7 270 holding me back!".

 

Make sense?