Entry-level graphics cards: SA price roundup

[James]

Entry-level graphics cards: SA price roundup

So you want in to the graphics card owner’s club, but don’t know what to wear? This short guide will help budget buyers kit out their rig properly.

[z1oc]

The Gt210 Is a waist of time >< only reason i would ever buy one is for a PC with no Display port on board.

[MetalSoup]

The Gt210 Is a waist of time >< only reason i would ever buy one is for a PC with no Display port on board.

[Hagan]

The true definition of the word.

[Tydmors]

The Gt210 Is a waist of time >< only reason i would ever buy one is for a PC with no Display port on board.

I must say i have the GT210 in my pc at home and it battles to run magica and mafia 2.

But i mainly use my pc as a media center as the card contains a HDMI port

but i must say it runs lol, dota2, SC2 and a couple of other games it just depends on the game i guess.

[z1oc]

o snap lol "waste of time" >< idk why i typed that there spelling fail -.-

[Gradius]

Only gfx card worth your money in the round up is the HD7770. The rest is entry level rubbish and only expect to use it as a media pc to stream movies etc.

[Glordit]

Only gfx card worth your money in the round up is the HD7770. The rest is entry level rubbish and only expect to use it as a media pc to stream movies etc.

With AMD's A series you don't need a GPU anymore. Would go with a HD7770/90 for entry mid level gaming, or simply for someone that mostly plays Free to play games - they are not as graphically intensive as most big budget titles.

[Gradius]

With AMD's A series you don't need a GPU anymore. Would go with a HD7770/90 for entry mid level gaming, or simply for someone that mostly plays Free to play games - they are not as graphically intensive as most big budget titles.

I would only seriously consider such a thing when they can put a built-in 7950 or something like that into the cpu.
Until then I'm quite happy with my GTX570 Sli setup

[Graal]

I've still got the HD 6870 I won from MyGaming two years back and I can't recommend it enough for a mid-range card. I can still play most new games on high and I suspect if I had a better CPU I'd easily be able to play most of them on a mixture of high to highest, if I wouldn't be able to simply max them out anyway.