Best Graphics Card for my PC that costs

Andrew Devlin @Andrew Devlin

May 2021 7 53 Report

Best Graphics Card for my PC that costs <£50?

My specs are:

Dell Dimention c521

Windows Vista Premium

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

2gb RAM

Direct X10

Integrated NVIDIA Geforce 6150 LE (approx total Memory 330MB)

I am buyin a new graphics card as my old one is built into teh mother board and produces crap frame rates if i turn any of ma games above low settings. This frustrates me a lot. Could you plz tell me what is the best Graphics card ( under £50 ) that i could buy right now.

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Jason T

Radeon X1650

NVidia 7600GS or GT (GT is better but more expensive)

Double check PCIx or AGP on your motherboard, you will have to get a video card to match. I went from a Nvidia 6200 to 7600 and frame rate went up a LOT (more than 5fps as someone else suggested).

As for Direct X 10. Forget it, the cheapest direct X 10 card I've seen was $300 US and needs a beefy power supply. The 7600GS I have works well on a stock 300 Watt PSU.

The Radeon would be about the same as 7600 if you prefer ATI but I like the unified drivers that Nvidia has.

Oh yeah, I also have a 7300 on a different machine and it is only about 1/3 the speed as it only has 4 pixel pipelines instead of 12.

If you can get an Nvidia 7800, 7900 or 7950 of course go for that, but I've not seem them in your price range.

djfear123

you mentioned directx 10...you will be hard-pressed to find and card that supports directx10 for under 50 pounds. Nvidia makes some decent directx9 cards that would fall in that range like 7600 or 7800. Still, those might be more than your budget.

Bjorn

I can tell you this, buying a video card for less than 50 pounds is probably not going to help you very much.

The 6150le is not that bad of an onboard adapter. Buying one for the price you mentioned will probably only give you a 5 frame per second increase. Which, in my opinion, is not worth the money.

This is probably the best card you could buy for your computer, considering the fact that you will need a low-profile card because of the case your computer is in.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...

Never buy a small form-factor pc if you are planning on gaming.

the final you need to get could be an nVidia 8800 extremely. no longer a large ATI fan so i could no longer inform you theirs. i could recommend a 7900 GT nonetheless. it somewhat is extra of a funds card now whether it nonetheless has adequate ability to get issues carried out. The 512mb of ram is killing you nonetheless. in case you intend on doing gaming you need to enhance that. For destiny repliers, he has a PCI convey x16 slot on his board.