The cost of your GPU.

[Bajinga]

I have recently bought a new computer, and it is great,
2 TB External Hard Drive
4GB RAM
AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 245 2.9GHz Processor
GPU: ATI Radeon 3000 Graphics
As for a GPU, I am really set down with a horrible one.
I looked at games on steam and they generally want Nvidia. However, these cost quite a bit of money and I am wondering, how much did your GPU's cost?

(I would ask for links to the websites where they were purchased, but that might be considered advertising)

TL;DR How much did your GPU cost?

 

[FallenTraveler]

they have cheap (like 30$) ones that aren't half bad, they run games well... I'd look at newegg and tigerdirect

 

[LordMithril]

Just to set things straight: nVidia makes the GeForce series of cards

OT.
I myself have a 150? AMD Radeon 5770. Works fine.
If I ever upgrade it will probably be an other 150ish card

 

[Purkki]

ATI HD4770, about 100? and still runs most games on the highest settings smoothly.
AKA. Well bought.

 

[wordsmith]

I have recently bought a new computer, and it is great,
2 TB External Hard Drive
4GB RAM
2.9GHz Processor
As for a GPU, I am really set down with a horrible one.
I looked at games on steam and they generally want Nvidia or GeForce. However, these cost quite a bit of money and I am wondering, how much did your GPU's cost?

(I would ask for links to the websites of where they were purchased, but that might be considered advertising)

TL;DR How much did your GPU cost?

When you say 2.9GHz processor, what are you running? Dual, Quad, i series?

EDIT: On topic, £75-100 is about right, I spent £87 on my 4870 in 2009

 

[Fayathon]

I've got an ATI Radeon HD5770, it was about $150. Decent mid-range card, especially since I couldn't justify buying a card that would be outdated in three months.

 

[Bajinga]

When you say 2.9GHz processor, what are you running? Dual, Quad, i series?

I'll just quote it.
"AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 245 Processor 2.90GHz"

I'm assuming from the two's that it is a dual.

 

[Bajinga]

ATI HD4770, about 100? and still runs most games on the highest settings smoothly.
AKA. Well bought.

Hmm... I might think about buying this. There's one for £60.00, which doesn't sound bad at all, that is, if you are giving the right description.

 

[Beat14]

More than the rest of my pc, how retarded I know. Well that's a bit of a lie but it's close.

 

[witheringsanity]

mine is (was) $450. it's the MSI 5870 lightning II. i had two of them in crossfire, but quickly realized that was supreme overkill since i don't have the CPU power to utilize them, and was only getting another 5-10 FPS in newer games (it was much higher for older games, but a jump from 60 to 90 FPS is kind of pointless). so i sold one off and am still fairly sure i'm getting CPU bottleneck. what alot of people (myself formerly included) don't seem to realize is everything in the computer has to work harmoniously. if you have a 2.9 ghz dual-core, buying any GPU over $200 is going to be a waste of money because even if the video card can handle all the fancy graphics, the CPU won't. same goes for RAM (both size and speed), HDD, cooling, etc.

sadly, if you want to upgrade a computer to play the newest games on the highest setting, you generally need to upgrade the whole damn thing

EDIT: i didn't mean to suggest that getting a better video card won't help. going from on-board graphics to a decent GPU will certainly give you more power to play games, as will a jump from a $50 video card to a $200 one. i just meant that more money doesn't ALWAYS equal better results

 

[devotedsniper]

Mine was £115 for a KFA2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 460 768mb. It plays pretty much everything on high to maximum (high on witcher 2 so the cards no push over).

 

[DefunctTheory]

$209 when I got it. Cheaper now.

 

[Bajinga]

mine is (was) $450. it's the MSI 5870 lightning II. i had two of them in crossfire, but quickly realized that was supreme overkill since i don't have the CPU power to utilize them, and was only getting another 5-10 FPS in newer games (it was much higher for older games, but a jump from 60 to 90 FPS is kind of pointless). so i sold one off and am still fairly sure i'm getting CPU bottleneck. what alot of people (myself formerly included) don't seem to realize is everything in the computer has to work harmoniously. if you have a 2.9 ghz dual-core, buying any GPU over $200 is going to be a waste of money because even if the video card can handle all the fancy graphics, the CPU won't. same goes for RAM (both size and speed), HDD, cooling, etc.

sadly, if you want to upgrade a computer to play the newest games on the highest setting, you generally need to upgrade the whole damn thing

I see. Well that changes a bit. I am getting around 10-15 fps on TF2 (I think that is due to the awful card that I have) and even 30 fps would be awesome.

 

[Lacsapix]

Asus ati HD6950 for 245 euro's its a freaking beast

 

[PxDn Ninja]

nVidia 8500GTX I believe. Been a long time since I thought about it so a number could be wrong. I bought the whole system from a friend after mine went belly up and I couldn't afford a new kit.

Personally I always buy nVidia as when I worked in a lan center we tried ATI and their failure rate was over 50% and the customer service was terrible.

 

[Calcium]

Mine came with the computer, havn't changed it. It's an Intel HD with a maximum graphics memory of 795 MB apparently. Also seems to be using DirectX 10.

Either way I havn't had to change it and it's running Team Fortress and Mount & Blade without complaint so far.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Mine cost around $260 at the time, and it was a GTX 560 Ti.

 

[witheringsanity]

mine is (was) $450. it's the MSI 5870 lightning II. i had two of them in crossfire, but quickly realized that was supreme overkill since i don't have the CPU power to utilize them, and was only getting another 5-10 FPS in newer games (it was much higher for older games, but a jump from 60 to 90 FPS is kind of pointless). so i sold one off and am still fairly sure i'm getting CPU bottleneck. what alot of people (myself formerly included) don't seem to realize is everything in the computer has to work harmoniously. if you have a 2.9 ghz dual-core, buying any GPU over $200 is going to be a waste of money because even if the video card can handle all the fancy graphics, the CPU won't. same goes for RAM (both size and speed), HDD, cooling, etc.

sadly, if you want to upgrade a computer to play the newest games on the highest setting, you generally need to upgrade the whole damn thing

I see. Well that changes a bit. I am getting around 10-15 fps on TF2 (I think that is due to the awful card that I have) and even 30 fps would be awesome.

i went from ~30 FPS on Portal with on-board to over 60 with a $50 video card. what model GPU do you have right now? (or is it on-board)

 

[isnosche]

i've got 2 Msi radeons 6970 at 300 dollars
Powering 3 screens ...
check the charts @ tomshardware for what you need.
with your pc anything over 200 bucks is a waste of money.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2964.html

Enjoy

 

[Layz92]

I've got an ATI Radeon HD5770, it was about $150. Decent mid-range card, especially since I couldn't justify buying a card that would be outdated in three months.

Same card and justification I used when I got that for a friend's PC he was having me plan.

The aformentioned ATI is nice but a GeForce 460 or thereabouts is a nice buy too. Personally I go for a more reliable brand like Asus, Gigabyte or XFX model. Those are still around $150-$180