Advice on Video Card (mainly for 2.0)

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Now thats some valuable information, I didn't know they can work together like that. Just read some other sites to confirm, and they said pretty much the same thing, that there is barely any notice in a downgrade of performance for using 3.0 card on a 2.1 or 2.0 motherboard. Thanks ^^

the ATI has sleeping dogs for free! limited..!

[darkstarpoet1]

being honest if your 250 is still running the game well right now i would offer one piece of advice. stay with it for just a bit and wait for a short time before upgrading. with the 600 series cards out the price on the 500 series cards will start dropping the closer we get to the holidays. i have the 580 cod factory overclocked edition and this card is a complete beast.

i guess it's more of why spend the amount now for a card when you could get a much better card for the same amount of cash in just a few months? if it's running fine now just hold off on the upgrade because the game will be going down soon for beta anyways and may as well get a better card for the same amount you will be spending now while it's down and be ready to put it to use once it comes back up.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

If you ever decide to up your budget by a bit, I do recommend the GTX 660 TI. They go for $299, and I recently jumped on one when they came out. Runs XIV fine at max settings at 1920x1080.

It comes with Borderlands 2 for free also, so if you also had that planned to buy, it'll save ya $60. Just a thought, it really is a fantastic card.

Also worth noting, a PCI E 3.0 card works fine on a 2.0 slot. The loss in framerate is at most like, 1 fps.

My family's computer has a GeForce 260 GTX, and I've been trying to get my dad to take the hood off the computer box's casing to see if the graphics card is removable. I also told my dad that a new card (I would like him to get the 660 Ti) so that he can play Arkham Asylum (he's a huge Batman fan, lol) with good performance and graphics. I mean, the 260 GTX is good, it's just not DirectX 11 hardware-based.

[Xeonerable]

I've heard that ATI cards run better with AMD processors (i have a 6 core 2.9ghz) but I typically use Nvidia cards. If anyone has some advice on a purchase, would be appreciated. I usually use newegg or tigerdirect btw. Thanks

** It's for a PCI-E 2.0 slot

Pairing up a Radeon with an AMD cpu is just a gimmick to get you to buy from one company.


All versions above PCI-E 2.0 are backwards compatible. A 2.1 , or 3.0, PCI-E card will work on a 2.0 slot.

[Fear]

All versions above PCI-E 2.0 are backwards compatible. A 2.1 , or 3.0, PCI-E card will work on a 2.0 slot.

ALL PCI-E are backwards compatible, a PCI-e 3.0 card WILL work in a normal PCI-E x16 slot but the data bandwidth will be alot lower and limit the card.

[Kluya15]

being honest if your 250 is still running the game well right now i would offer one piece of advice. stay with it for just a bit and wait for a short time before upgrading. with the 600 series cards out the price on the 500 series cards will start dropping the closer we get to the holidays. i have the 580 cod factory overclocked edition and this card is a complete beast.

i guess it's more of why spend the amount now for a card when you could get a much better card for the same amount of cash in just a few months? if it's running fine now just hold off on the upgrade because the game will be going down soon for beta anyways and may as well get a better card for the same amount you will be spending now while it's down and be ready to put it to use once it comes back up.

That's very true, I suppose Black Friday is only a couple of months away, I could probably score really big if I wait till then.

[Zumi]

Prices on the 500 series is droping since they came out with the 600. If your looking to spend a reasonable amount get a 570 or you want the best get a 670 or 680.

I have a 570 myself and I don't think its that much of a improvement over a 250. You might be disappointed with the results.

[darkstarpoet1]

That's very true, I suppose Black Friday is only a couple of months away, I could probably score really big if I wait till then.

that was my line of thinking. right now on your budget you could get a card now, but by then you could probably at least get one series higher of a card for the same amount. if nothing else you could get the name brand of the series of card you are looking at now for that price with a much better warranty.

for example for the nvidia series cards i would never own anything other than evga even though it's a little more expensive. after the 260 i originally had in my computer fried from doing folding and the manufacturer refused to honor the warranty i looked into it more. i went with evga and got it's optional return warranty. i went through 2 more cards in the few years that followed and whenever i burnt out one card i called them and they had the replacement shipped to me and i packed up the old card and sent it back in the same box. after that service i will never own another manufacturer on my cards.

[Hikozaemon]

It seems both those Sapphires are 2.1 or 3.0 for the PCI-E slot, so that's unfortunate. However, that's good that they are both cheaper and run better with my cpu, so I appreciate the advice ^^ I'll see if there's a slight lower end sapphire that uses 2.0

lol 2.1-3.0 doesnt matter they all work on 2.0 pci express slots. and every board including older ones for sure have 1-4 pci express slots.

your biggest question is wether or not your pc has the proper power supply to support a stronger video card.

[Zumi]

Also, do not get factory overclocked. This causes instability in the card makes games crash. If your going to overclock get one that isn't factory overclocked and do it yourself.