WTB PC Graphics card - maybe :) NOW SORTED

trolley

So my son reckons a decent graphics card will speed up the computer.
BUT - I don't play games; he does, but only on this machine since his laptop blew up.
He reckons that spending between £40 & £100 is a waste - the dearer ones don't give enough performance increase for the money.

So if anyone's upgrading & selling a reasonable (~£200 new?) card please let me know & I might be tempted

TimmyO

I got one for my lad's computer the other week that took him from 20fos on low settings playing Overwatch to 60fps on high settings - it only cost £92 - but you may already have that sort of power (I see the prices you can spend on these things - makes your eyes water!) 

trolley

My son reckons a ~£500 card would be OK - he's got no chance!
It's mostly for coding a Raspberry Pi & recording.
And his games

uncledick

It will only make a significant difference if the graphics card is the bottleneck.  You'll also need to make sure that the power supply is up to the job.  Why not post the current spec of the machine on here?  Someone will know - and if not, I know who to ask.

TimmyO

£500 ? wtf HE'd best get delivering a *lot* of papers lol 

trolley

Guy in work's son does gaming as his main hobby - he spent £800 on a graphics card!
It was his own money, mind

Jaycee

uncledick said:

It will only make a significant difference if the graphics card is the bottleneck.  You'll also need to make sure that the power supply is up to the job.  Why not post the current spec of the machine on here?  Someone will know - and if not, I know who to ask.

I will second that, no good getting a decent card if the rest of the gear isn't up to it.

Neil

trolley said:

So my son reckons a decent graphics card will speed up the computer.
BUT - I don't play games; he does, but only on this machine since his laptop blew up.
He reckons that spending between £40 & £100 is a waste - the dearer ones don't give enough performance increase for the money.

So if anyone's upgrading & selling a reasonable (~£200 new?) card please let me know & I might be tempted

Have one for sale here. Not sure if it is what you are looking for?

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/94956/graphics-card-sapphire-hd-7970-dual-x-3gg-gddr5-90-inc-rmsd#latest

crunchman

If you go the the one that @Neil has then I would echo the advice above to check if your power supply (and case cooling) can handle it.  On full tilt that one is 250W.  It probably won't use all of that, but a lot of power supplies in normal consumer machines will struggle with that.

I think NVidia cards are normally a bit less power hungry than AMD cards of similar performance if power is an issue.

trolley

Our PSU can handle it - but it doesn't have the connectors!

Which is a little awkward

Jaycee

It may have the connections, but it may not have the leads connected up. What psu do you have?
 

Jaycee

Ahh I see its sorted, what did you end up doing

trolley

Sorry, been away. We bought a Radeon RX460 - well, I did