Graphics card upgrade sub~250$

[Colthead]

Hey guys i'm currently looking to upgrade my graphics card as it is starting to show its age. I like to do some cpu intensive things though as well as gaming, and my processoris rather old. I think I could just get away with overclocking my AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE. My current Graphics card is a Sapphire 7770 GHZ edition, I am looking to spend roughly 200-250 dollars, maybe more on the 200 dollar end.

 

[rolli59]

For that CPU I would look at R9 280 http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#c=167&sort=a8 anything stronger will be bottlenecked. Make sure your PSU can handle it.

 

[Colthead]

Yeah I've got a CX 600 builder series psu, shouldn't be a problem. Overclocking my cpu would help me though? Or should i be looking to upgrade that too?

 

[rolli59]

It will handle it, on the bottleneck I had a HD7850 paired with a X4 955BE and had to have it OC to 3.6GHz to get rid of bottleneck so with that card you probably have to have OC on your CPU for the same.