A decent GPU for an i5-2400 3.1ghz

digzu

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I'm probably going to go ahead and upgrade the RAM to 8GB DDR3 SDRAM in this OptiPlex 390 at some point, but I'm not keen on touching the processor or such which is from the Sandy/Ivy Bridge era.

I'm generally just interested in upping some performance in things, not a heavy at all gamer (or a modern gamer at all) by any means which is why I bought this OptiPlex 390 in the first place, alongside the fact that it was only £60 and seemed reasonable. Plus I can live on fairly low end hardware you know, it's definitely possible to.

GPU seems to be the main issue. The i5 in this Dell is apparently incredibly good for OCing, though I don't have much need to do that. However this only has a 32MB dedicated-memory, something-like-1GB-shared Intel HD 2000, which was before they actually decided to do anything remotely reasonable with the HD Graphics at all...

Plus I want to free up the RAM off the system as much as I can, might mean a lot. Less of an issue if I have 8GB than it would be having 4 as I do now but it's still worth doing for good reason...

anyone know a decent GPU, though? I read somewhere the GTX 750Ti is probably quite a good go on an i3 of the same generation and clock speed and anything else would probably be a bottleneck. But I have literally no knoweldge on how this stuff works, I checked ebay and there's like 3-4 different rebrands and I don't really know the difference lol.

Should mention also this is a H61 chipset.
 

OmniDyne

Active Member
My older rig has a Zotac 750ti paired with an AMD FX-8300 and it still maxes out games like Overwatch. Super optimized titles and first person shooters probably won't be much of an issue to run.
 

digzu

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My older rig has a Zotac 750ti paired with an AMD FX-8300 and it still maxes out games like Overwatch. Super optimized titles and first person shooters probably won't be much of an issue to run.
That's neat. I always thought it was better performance with a Intel/NVIDIA or AMD/AMD combination over others, but looks like I'm wrong about that :p
 

beers

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Staff member
Depends how much you would want to spend, second hand 750ti or similar would be a reasonable pairing. RX560 (non 560D, although you can flash some of them to go from 896->1024 shaders) are also around the same ballpark.
 

digzu

New Member
Depends how much you would want to spend, second hand 750ti or similar would be a reasonable pairing. RX560 (non 560D, although you can flash some of them to go from 896->1024 shaders) are also around the same ballpark.
that’s cool, which would more likely be the cheaper option and what would be the easiest thing to look for when buying a RX560?

thanks for that tho ^^
 

DJboutit

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Your 6 to 8 year old computer if you looking for a 4gb video card it is time to get a newer computer. You can get a decent I7 with 12gb to 18gb ram and a nice 3gb or 4gb video for 450 to 600?? A nice 4gb video will cost $200 to $275.
 
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