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Solve : Add a Video Card to an FM2 AMD A6 Rig? |
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Answer» Hi; I have no idea how the various Geforce GT / GTX cards and Radeon cards stack up? Don't even get me started on that. They seem to purposely design their naming schemes to be as confusing as possible. I expect that, with few exceptions, most of the dedicated graphics cards you can find today should out-perform the integrated Radeon graphics you've got in that SYSTEM. From what I can find, the 7450 was release in early 2012. I won't look at ALL the specs but two important ones are Pixel fillrate and Texture fillrate, which in it's case are listed in the specs I can find as maxing out at 3.0 and 6.0 respectively, and a 64-bit memory bus. This is technically for the desktop GPU variants (which were apparently OEM) and I'd expect it to be lower for the ones integrated as part of a Desktop APU, but they are a reasonable baseline. I used Amazon and filtered graphics cards to show items below $100 USD. Here are some possible options I found: A Radeon R7 240. Pixel Fillrate: 5.84 Texture fillrate: 14.6 128-bit Memory Bus It's listed at around $70. I would expect that to be a reasonable upgrade. Another option, going NVidia side, is a GT 740. It's right at the edge of your listed budget and I expect shipping would actually put it over (~$91) but performance wise, from what I can tell, it has a pixel fillrate of 15.9, and a texture fillrate of 31.8, which practically doubles the performance characteristics of the Radeon R7. Now, all this said- I should ADMIT that when I need help with choosing a new graphics card, I usually resort to starting a topic myself, as many other forum users have a more comprehensive knowledge regarding graphics cards than myself. My approach here was to use amazon.com as I noted, show graphics cards between $50 and $100, and look up some of the specs on the wikipedia pages listing AMD and NVidia graphics processors/cards and compare them from that. You might be able to get more for your money with a 750GTX if you go with a refurb card. But there are some risks with going with a card that is a refurb such as when it was serviced to be fixed were all stressed or defective components replaced or was it a card that was overclocked and cooked and then sent back for repair in which only the 1 chip that lost under strain was replaced with others stressed but still functional. Sometimes the refurbs are actually parts that never had a problem at all but were just returned and tested and sold as refurb as well. While I dont care for MSI brand components, this one seems like an ok deal for what you get. Just not sure if newegg ships to your country or not. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127921 I tend to like getting certain parts brand new vs refurb. ALTHOUGH if the price is right I have taken gambles and came out ok with refurbs such as refurb 300GB SATA II Hard Drives for $12 each for a server that I wanted to put a RAID in. With 2 drives even though refurb the odds of both dying at same time is slim and so for $24 I had the drives needed for the mirror setup.Thanks for the advice everyone, I did some of my own research and found some interesting stuff: I managed to find a comparison on videocardbenchmark.net which showed how slow my GPU would be against some common cards: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+7450 This helped me identify the modern gradin METHODS, a quick Google search also helped: http://blog.logicalincrements.com/2014/06/graphics-cards-what-do-the-numbers-mean/ Anyway I found a Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti Graphics Card (2GB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 3.0) on Amazon for £94.98 just need to get the cash :-) |
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