5850 died, low budget replacement?

[Comandante_J]

Hi all!. A friend of mine bough a refurbished 5850 about a year and a half ago, it cost him 50 bucks, but yesterday the card died, and he's stuck with a GT210 or something like that.

Anyway, he has a very low budget, what would be the cheapest card to match what he had?

Thanks in advance.

 

[usmanraza]

you could get a radeon r7 240 for him for 70 bucks from here
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FW5B3ZO/?tag=pcpapi-20

 

[goku1234567890]

The cheap replacement can only be as low as GT 620 or GT 630 if you want to play some games on low to tweaked med settings.

 

[usmanraza]

The cheap replacement can only be as low as GT 620 or GT 630 if you want to play some games on low to tweaked med settings.

what do u think about the r9 270 i suggested to him??

 

[goku1234567890]

Did you suggest R9 270 or R7 240.

 

[usmanraza]

Did you suggest R9 270 or R7 240.

sry r7 240

 

[goku1234567890]

That card is good too and on a rebadge or copy of HD 6670. If you can afford get R7 250 i can max out battlefield 4 and Assassins Creed all games except Black Flag haven't tried it yet. So in short in Nvidia side get GT 620 or 630 and in Amd side r7 240 or r7 250.

 

[usmanraza]

That card is good too and on a rebadge or copy of HD 6670. If you can afford get R7 250 i can max out battlefield 4 and Assassins Creed all games except Black Flag haven't tried it yet. So in short in Nvidia side get GT 620 or 630 and in Amd side r7 240 or r7 250.

hmmmm...that would be good for him

 

[goku1234567890]

It will certainly be.....as a matter of fact Thief 2014 and Watch Dogs are mantle supported and will provide atleast 5 to 15 fps increase as compared to HD 7730 (R7 250 is made by keeping this card in picture) and any other out there like HD 5770 or on par with 7750. And what's more mantle perform better as compared to high end machines which have i7 or i5.

 

[Comandante_J]

Thanks for all the answers. The rest of his specs are:

CPU: i5 750@Stock
RAM: 2x4GB DDR3 1333
PSU: Generic, 600W

So you think a 240 would be good enough? What would be a match i performance for the 5850? a 250x? 260x?

 

[goku1234567890]

R7 260 is equal in performance as compared to hd 5850. And both the prices are almost same (the max difference is 10 to 15 dollars). But R7 260 has upper hand by mantle. Also R7 250 is almost on par with hd 5850 but is behind in some aspects to hd 5850.

 

[goku1234567890]

Keep in mind that i am talking about R7 260 not 260x. If you can get 260x than certainly go for it.

 

[Comandante_J]

R7 240 : 60 EUR
R7 250x: 82 EUR
R7 260 : 108 EUR
R7 260x: 102 EUR (LOL)

 

[goku1234567890]

Wow that pricing, certainly don't believe that price of R7 260x. Get the R7 250X or 260 if you can.

 

[gerry410]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131559

Newegg has AXR7 250x on sale 2day only $70.00, with rebate.