Great Budget GPU?

[JJPFD]

I've been looking around and I found this https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA23X62G7539

It seems insanely good for the price, I've never heard of this brand but a GT 730 clocked at 1670 MHz!?!?! Is that even possible?

[Herman Mcpootis]

lol no, a gt 730 for $90 in 2018 is highway robbery. and that's not even counting shipping costs.

[Canada EH]

used 970 or new GTX1050 or the GT1030 or better yet build around Ryzen 2400G cpu

 

Look at your local online classifieds, like Kijiji or the other one no one uses Craigslist or go to your locally owned pc building/repair store and see what they have.

[ZcanKal]

that is a TERRIBLE price for that card.  That's more money than the GT 1030 costs, and the GT 1030 is current gen.  If you want a good cheap GPU, go for AMD's Ryzen APU's

[JJPFD]

Ok thanks guys. I didn't really know anything about that particular card but the 4gb and 1670 MHz is a bit misleading. Again thanks for all the input

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

no one uses Craigslist

I've seen some incredibly good deals for GPUs on my local Craigslist listings, I wouldn't be so quick to rule it out.

 

@JJPFD: The lowest power GPU you can buy for gaming in this day and age is a GTX 750Ti. Anything below that is out.

 

-Moved to Graphics Cards-

[ZcanKal]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

The lowest power GPU you can buy for gaming in this day and age is a GTX 750Ti.

1050?

[TetraSky]

4 minutes ago, JJPFD said:

but the 4gb and 1670 MHz is a bit misleading.

That's the thing with "low end cards" (any GPU where the last two digit are under 50 is usually low end), they often have lots of VRAM to mislead people who are unaware.... But that VRAM is mostly to allow multiple displays at a high res, for office work and such. Not for gaming. (Not saying they are trash for gaming, but they aren't the best value in performance/per dollar)

[JJPFD]

@Crunchy Dragon Thanks, I have a 750 ti on my main pc, I got a pretty good deal on it around a year ago; I got two for $100 USD on newegg. I gave one to my friend so he could get into gaming.

[JJPFD]

@TetraSky Yea looking a bit deeper than the page it was on I found out that the graphics clock was actually 900 MHz so I'm glad I cleared that up haha

[Herman Mcpootis]

5 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've seen some incredibly good deals for GPUs on my local Craigslist listings, I wouldn't be so quick to rule it out.

 

@JJPFD: The lowest power GPU you can buy for gaming in this day and age is a GTX 750Ti. Anything below that is out.

 

-Moved to Graphics Cards-

depends on the place, our criagslist is a complete ghost town but others were full of ads.

[Himommies]

At this point in time I would reccomend not buying anything under a 1060 because the APU's exist.Chances are that if you have a 1060 you'll still be at 1080p and getting a 2400g and something like a 1070 or 1080 in the future is a much better investment

[ZcanKal]

3 minutes ago, JJPFD said:

I got two for $100 USD on newegg.

Wow, that actually is a really good deal.

[JJPFD]

@Herman Mcpootis Yea in my area there is someone selling a 1070 oc ryzen 5 1400 pc for $900

[Crunchy Dragon]

9 minutes ago, ZcanKal said:

1050?

Let me rephrase: the lowest tier GPU for gaming to buy in this day and age is a 750Ti. Anything below that is out of the question.

[JJPFD]

Also while I'm here what's better 1050 ti or 3gb 1060?

[Crunchy Dragon]

10 minutes ago, JJPFD said:

Also while I'm here what's better 1050 ti or 3gb 1060?

1060 3Gb.

[simple115]

15 hours ago, JJPFD said:

I've been looking around and I found this https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA23X62G7539

It seems insanely good for the price, I've never heard of this brand but a GT 730 clocked at 1670 MHz!?!?! Is that even possible?

You can look for used GPUs, they deliver more performance on the same price, but it can be tricky. If you want warranty and 100% safety, go with new gen GPUs. If you can find gt 1030 for $70-80 go for it. But don't buy GT 730.

 

Also this model is ddr3, which is so slow that even my hd 630 in my pentium g4600 can outperform it, no joke. The bare minimum to new GPUs are gt 1030.