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#1 Gaimz4eva
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My specs right now

  • AMD Athlon II X3 450 Processor
  • GeForce GTS 450
  • 4 GB RAM

It's self-built (or I didn't put it together a local shopkeeper did it for me :P).

It's about a year old now and the GTS 450 isn't really the most powerful card on the market.

So now I'm wondering what would be the best card I can get in the range of 300-400$?

I would also prefer a Nvidia card as I'm familiar with those but anything else will also do!

Gaimz4eva

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#2 Tezcatlipoca666
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GTX 570 or HD 6970.

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#3 04dcarraher
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A new cpu and gpu Phenom 2 X4 955 GTX 560ti much better combo then a GTX 570 or 6970 paired with that Athlon X3 450

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127594

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#4 C_Rule
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A new cpu and gpu Phenom 2 X4 955 GTX 560ti much better combo then a GTX 570 or 6970 paired with that Athlon X3 450

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127594

04dcarraher
This. Shouldn't be spending $400 on a GPU, with that CPU.
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#5 thekey
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[QUOTE="C_Rule"][QUOTE="04dcarraher"]

A new cpu and gpu Phenom 2 X4 955 GTX 560ti much better combo then a GTX 570 or 6970 paired with that Athlon X3 450

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127594

This. Shouldn't be spending $400 on a GPU, with that CPU.

agreed
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#6 thekey
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[QUOTE="Gaimz4eva"]

My specs right now

  • AMD Athlon II X3 450 Processor
  • GeForce GTS 450
  • 4 GB RAM

It's self-built (or I didn't put it together a local shopkeeper did it for me :P).

It's about a year old now and the GTS 450 isn't really the most powerful card on the market.

So now I'm wondering what would be the best card I can get in the range of 300-400$?

I would also prefer a Nvidia card as I'm familiar with those but anything else will also do!

Gaimz4eva

If your willing to spend $300 to $400 on a graphics card you might as well spend that on a phenom ii X4 975 or and X6 1100 along with a HD 6870 GC(If your mobo can handle this hardware.)
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#7 Blue-Sky
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[QUOTE="C_Rule"][QUOTE="04dcarraher"]

A new cpu and gpu Phenom 2 X4 955 GTX 560ti much better combo then a GTX 570 or 6970 paired with that Athlon X3 450

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127594

thekey

This. Shouldn't be spending $400 on a GPU, with that CPU.

agreed

I concur.

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#8 SPYDER0416
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GTX 570 or HD 6970.

Tezcatlipoca666

These two are great cards to pick, a superclocked 570 is actually close to or equal to a 580 in power I hear so you can get one of those for $340 on Newegg.