$100 Decent Non Gaming Card

[northtexas55693]

I'm in search of a GC for a new build.

I game about 10% of my total time on my system
Currently sporting the ultra old GTS 250.

I run 2 monitors that are plane jane:
Asus 27" - 4 yrs old
Dell 24" - 6 yrs old

I thought I wanted to go with a decent enough card like the GTX 960, but I would rather skimp as much as I can on the GC for now and budget for other things like a new OS or a HDD to put in my old build to keep it running once I scavenge my SSD's from it.

Essentially I am in search of a GC that is around $100 ($130 now, but $100 with potential black Friday sales would work too) and can handle as high a resolution as I can expect on my monitors.
HDMI/DVI ports preferred.

 

[wildfire707]

If you plan on gaming using an NVIDIA GPU, you should probably consider a GeForce GTX 750 Ti card like this:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-02gp43751kr

It is $110 before a $10 mail in rebate. I assume that you are in the USA, given your login name

The 750 Ti will have at least twice the computing capability of your GTS 250, and it uses less than a third of the amount of power to do it. Older motherboards (and OEM ones like the ones from Dell and HP) can have problems with the 750 Ti, since it pulls all of its power through the PCI Express motherboard connector (no separate video card power cable needed).

If you are building the system yourself with a new motherboard, it will work fine. My ASUS P8P67 Pro worked fine with a GeForce GTX 750 Ti, too.

Good luck!

 

[pete_101]

The GTX 750Ti mentioned above is a good GPU. However if you want a bit more performance, I would suggest you look at the R7 370, it uses more power than the 750Ti, but still less than your GTS 250.
This one is $110 after rebate http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121964&cm_re=r7_370-_-14-121-964-_-Product

Update. Thought I'd see if there are any youtube videos comparing the R7 370 to the GTX 960, as that is what you called a decent enough card. The GTX 960 is a better, and more expensive GPU, but the R7 370 doesn't do too bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N30XJtSoKlc

 

[Kaitlin Kaschak459]

i love my 750TI