In that price range I would recommend a Radeon HD 6790. Fairly powerful card with great cooling. Should run any game at medium to high settings. The one made by XFX on newegg.com has dual fans and sells for $140.
We need the rest of your specs motherboard what cpu you have and the wattage of your PSU.
My thoughts exactly. I won't really make a recommendation other than just letting him know that the GPU in that price range that I would personally get if I was in his position and I had the right PSU and motherboard for it.
And yes I know that it is an ASUS card but it still freaking rocks.
Not that I have too much personal experience with low-mid range cards either. Take this from someone who has only had ONE mid-range GPU, but then replaced it with two 5850s later, then moved on to two 6970s because hey, why not?
My thoughts exactly. I won't really make a recommendation other than just letting him know that the GPU in that price range that I would personally get if I was in his position and I had the right PSU and motherboard for it.
And yes I know that it is an ASUS card but it still freaking rocks.
Not that I have too much personal experience with low-mid range cards either. Take this from someone who has only had ONE mid-range GPU, but then replaced it with two 5850s later, then moved on to two 6970s because hey, why not?
That card roughly has the performance of the AMD 5770. AMD has much better cards in its price range.
In that price range I would recommend a Radeon HD 6790. Fairly powerful card with great cooling. Should run any game at medium to high settings. The one made by XFX on newegg.com has dual fans and sells for $140.
Your recommendation is a bit better so long as he doesn't mind buying from AMD and doesn't have an nVidia preference.
I personally would prefer the 6790. Much better suggestion.
EDIT: Look at the differences. As long as there is no brand preference, AMD cards generally win across the board.
Your recommendation is a bit better so long as he doesn't mind buying from AMD and doesn't have an nVidia preference.
I personally would prefer the 6790. Much better suggestion.
Yeah I had my eye on this card myself but decided I should put another $40 into it and get the 6870. Computer building is my hobby so I obsess over specs and reviews for each part. I do admit NVidia makes better cards for anti-aliasing but the price usually pushes me away.
Edit: Here's a detailed spec page for each of those cards. 6790 vs 550
Yeah I had my eye on this card myself but decided I should put another $40 into it and get the 6870. Computer building is my hobby so I obsess over specs and reviews for each part. I do admit NVidia makes better cards for anti-aliasing but the price usually pushes me away.
Edit: Here's a detailed spec page for each of those cards. 6790 vs 550
That is just numbers based off specs not taking into account different architectures ignore benchmarks like that or 3dmark or any crap like that RealWorld is all that matters.
As you can see here the 6790 does a lot better then the 550ti
Better than the 6790 and 550 Ti for only $10 more.
Benchmarks are even in the chart Xaanos linked.
But before you actually buy anything, we'll need to know your current CPU (In-case there will be a bottleneck), how much wattage your Power Supply is rated for and what Motherboard you have.
You can find this out by using Speccy to find out most of your System Information.
Speccy doesn't display what power supply your have, but if you open up the side of your case, and find your Power Supply (Usually at the bottom or top of the case) and on the side of your Power Supply, it should tell you how much wattage the Power Supply is rated for.
I would not trust that power supply at all. I have never heard of that website, the psu is not 80+ certified, and the only decent psu brands it has to choose from are OCZ and Silverstone.
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I would not trust that power supply at all. I have never heard of that website, the psu is not 80+ certified, and the only decent psu brands it has to choose from are OCZ and Silverstone.
Actually, there a more brands than just OCZ and Silverstone.
There are really good, decent PSU's from
Corsair (Being the best and better than OCZ and Silverstone IMO, especially their AX Series)
XFX
Cooler Master
Seasonic
Antec
Looking for PCI-Express
In that price range I would recommend a Radeon HD 6790. Fairly powerful card with great cooling. Should run any game at medium to high settings. The one made by XFX on newegg.com has dual fans and sells for $140.
My thoughts exactly. I won't really make a recommendation other than just letting him know that the GPU in that price range that I would personally get if I was in his position and I had the right PSU and motherboard for it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121434
And yes I know that it is an ASUS card but it still freaking rocks.
Not that I have too much personal experience with low-mid range cards either. Take this from someone who has only had ONE mid-range GPU, but then replaced it with two 5850s later, then moved on to two 6970s because hey, why not?
That card roughly has the performance of the AMD 5770. AMD has much better cards in its price range.
Your recommendation is a bit better so long as he doesn't mind buying from AMD and doesn't have an nVidia preference.
I personally would prefer the 6790. Much better suggestion.
EDIT: Look at the differences. As long as there is no brand preference, AMD cards generally win across the board.
6790
VS
550 Ti
Yeah I had my eye on this card myself but decided I should put another $40 into it and get the 6870. Computer building is my hobby so I obsess over specs and reviews for each part. I do admit NVidia makes better cards for anti-aliasing but the price usually pushes me away.
Edit: Here's a detailed spec page for each of those cards. 6790 vs 550
That is just numbers based off specs not taking into account different architectures ignore benchmarks like that or 3dmark or any crap like that RealWorld is all that matters.
As you can see here the 6790 does a lot better then the 550ti
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102908
Better than the 6790 and 550 Ti for only $10 more.
Benchmarks are even in the chart Xaanos linked.
But before you actually buy anything, we'll need to know your current CPU (In-case there will be a bottleneck), how much wattage your Power Supply is rated for and what Motherboard you have.
You can find this out by using Speccy to find out most of your System Information.
Speccy doesn't display what power supply your have, but if you open up the side of your case, and find your Power Supply (Usually at the bottom or top of the case) and on the side of your Power Supply, it should tell you how much wattage the Power Supply is rated for.
This is a HP( bought from walmart)
specs
CPU-AMD Athlon II X4 645
RAM-6.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz
MOBO-FOXCONN 2AB1
GPU-ATI Radeon HD 4550 (Gigabyte)(video card from my old system)
Well, if you get the 6850 then there would be a bottleneck between the CPU since the Athlons are out-dated. You should get a better CPU, best option being this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103995
Yeah, the Sapphire was the cheapest one. The rest are usually $160 - $180.
Actually, there a more brands than just OCZ and Silverstone.
There are really good, decent PSU's from
Corsair (Being the best and better than OCZ and Silverstone IMO, especially their AX Series)
XFX
Cooler Master
Seasonic
Antec
Basically, the best PSU for the OP to get would be a XFX Core Edition PRO550W for $69.99
What be a good videocard to go with that PSU?
Depends, is your budget still $150? Can you put in $125 for a better CPU so there won't be a bottleneck between your current CPU and a new GPU?
I was actually just talking about the website OP was buying from. OCZ and Silverstone are the only good PSU brands on that website.
Oh, where is he buying from? I'd like to check it out.
http://www.xoxide.com/
Actually, there are two Corsair power supplies in the "other" section. Seems pretty odd that they wouldn't even make a category for it.
Wow, that's weird.. Do you have any idea why the OP wants to buy from that site instead of Newegg or PCPartPicker?
Only reason I can think of is that he lives in a different country (e.g. Australia, New Zealand, etc)