$120 Graphics Card on Newegg

[iknowreal]

This is my motherboard. What is the best graphics card I can get that is supported by this board?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131873

 

[bignastyid]

For $120
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150642

 

[clarkkent06]

For $120
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150642

That's $90 after rebate.

If you'll stretch to $140 after rebate there's a 7870
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150604

 

[darkguy2]

Any card will work. But since it is PCI-E 2.0 if you get the super high-end cards they may be bottlenecked. Especially if you get more than one.

Edit: Misread your title. Still true that any card will work for you.

 

[PepitoTV]

For $120 your best bet is the GTX 650 Ti BOOST

 

[iknowreal]

Can someone explain this bottlenecking thing I have read it over a thousand times ?

 

[NormH]

For $120
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150642

+1 on this card or if you prefer nvidia go to 124 and get
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133473

 

[clarkkent06]

Can someone explain this bottlenecking thing I have read it over a thousand times ?

This is an old article but helps to explain it. The theoretical bandwidth is greater in 3.0, however if you're playing on a single monitor it wouldn't really matter. And the 2.0 only becomes a bottleneck on the $500+ graphics cards

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/07/18/pci_express_20_vs_30_gpu_gaming_performance_review/14#.Up-Ys-JiUWk

 

[iknowreal]

I have been refreshing and reading it looks like I may have to see how the benchmarks work out.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Can someone explain this bottlenecking thing I have read it over a thousand times ?

Bottlenecking is a term best demonstrated in this example. Take a cup of coffee, and a bottle of soda. Turn each upsidedown, how fast does each 'empty' its contents? The Soda takes a longer time as it is 'choked' in the bottle's neck to come out.

This is the same concept with data, if you have a fast hard drive, connected to fast RAM, but then a slow CPU, the GPU is waiting and waiting on the CPU to 'process' enough 'data' that the GPU can do its job, it 'lags' the game / application because it is twiddling its thumbs waiting on the CPU to hand over the data. The same happens if the HDD is slow, or the RAM is low quality, and so on.

 

[clarkkent06]

Can someone explain this bottlenecking thing I have read it over a thousand times ?

Bottlenecking is a term best demonstrated in this example. Take a cup of coffee, and a bottle of soda. Turn each upsidedown, how fast does each 'empty' its contents? The Soda takes a longer time as it is 'choked' in the bottle's neck to come out.

This is the same concept with data, if you have a fast hard drive, connected to fast RAM, but then a slow CPU, the GPU is waiting and waiting on the CPU to 'process' enough 'data' that the GPU can do its job, it 'lags' the game / application because it is twiddling its thumbs waiting on the CPU to hand over the data. The same happens if the HDD is slow, or the RAM is low quality, and so on.

I think what he was asking about was specifically all the people saying that PCI Express 2.0 is a bottleneck vs PCI Express 3.0. Which it is, in very specific circumstances. But not for the vast majority of people