Help about buying a mid range older GPU

[mladja064]

I will probably go for one of these! What is the difrence Saphire vs. Asus?
http://www.winwin.rs/graficka-kartica-amd-radeon-r7-250-sapphire-1gb-ddr5-dvi-hdmi-vga-128bit-11215-19-10g-6780095.html
http://www.winwin.rs/graficka-kartica-amd-radeon-r7-250-asus-2gb-gddr5-vga-dvi-hdmi-128bit-r7250-2gd5-6792199.html
Asus is 2gb!! Can i put it in my slot and make it work it is ddr5?
Thanks again for the support!

 

[Hellfire13]

Sapphire is a board partner of AMD exclusively which rebrands the AMD cards as Radeon. The difference between these 2 cards is, ASUS one has 2gb vram whereas Sapphire has 1gb.
If its a GDDR5 then its going to work as GDDR5. Whether the card works to its full potential or not however, depends on your rest of the hardware.

 

[mladja064]

Ok. Asus r7 2gb is a good card. The question is, will it be the "waste" of money with the rest of my configuration (that i wrote in my first post). So gddr3 or gddr5?

 

[Hellfire13]

There might be some bottleneck but it should still give you enough performance.

 

[mladja064]

Thanks again for your help! In the future i will go for RAM boost. So that means new motherboard with more RAM.

 

[Hellfire13]

I think we are going in loop here. As mentioned earlier, if you change the motherboard, then change the cpu to a beter one as wel.

 

[mladja064]

Yes i am aware of that. And i was thinking first to buy motherboard with more ddr2 RAM. And then to go for Intel Core 2 QUAD 3.0GHz Q9650. Is there any motherboard with 4slots per 2gb ddr2 RAM, or they are made only with 2slots of 4gb ddr2 (4gb ddr2 is expensive).

 

[Hellfire13]

Its better to save for a better build.

 

[RobCrezz]

I agree. Dont spend too much on that platform, its already very out of date. Your money would be better saved for a more modern system, even if its a used 2nd or 3rd Gen i5 with ddr3.

 

[mladja064]

But if i buy radeon R7 250 2Gb DDR5, will my 4gb RAM (3gb usable on 64bit OS?) be a botleneck...?

 

[Hellfire13]

Yes.

 

[mladja064]

Now i am confused to buy or not these R7 250...

 

[RobCrezz]

Dont get the 250... its not good.

 

[mladja064]

Dont get the 250... its not good.

U r not helping me..

 

[RobCrezz]

Im helping by advising you not to waste your money on a gpu that is bad value and performance.

My advice is to get a 750 ti. Save any further funds for a new build using a more modern platform, as i already said above.

 

[mladja064]

I got it So i have found something good. I am about to buy these configuration:
Cpu-i5 650 3.20 Ghz
Mboard-Asus P7H55-M PRO up to 16gb ddr3 ram
Ram memory-4Gb ddr3
No Graphic card! And the price is 90euros
750 Ti is good but too over my budget(100e) So as i see best buy for me is R7 250 2Gb DDR5 for 100e

 

[mladja064]

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=2414&gid2=1650&compare=AMD%20Radeon%20R7%20250%202GB-vs-AMD%20Radeon%20HD%206790%20PowerColor%201GB%20Edition

R7 250 2gb 128bit vs. HD 6790 1 gb 256bit

What is your opinion?

 

[RobCrezz]

I got it So i have found something good. I am about to buy these configuration:
Cpu-i5 650 3.20 Ghz
Mboard-Asus P7H55-M PRO up to 16gb ddr3 ram
Ram memory-4Gb ddr3
No Graphic card! And the price is 90euros
750 Ti is good but too over my budget(100e) So as i see best buy for me is R7 250 2Gb DDR5 for 100e

The platform isnt bad, and quite a lot better than your current, but the cpu is dual core unfortunatly. However, you can always put in a xeon x34xx and clock it up which is quad core and very cheap on ebay. ( I did that for my htpc).

I still wouldnt buy the r7 250. Surely you can get a GTX 660 used for less than that?

 

[mladja064]

I got it So i have found something good. I am about to buy these configuration:
Cpu-i5 650 3.20 Ghz
Mboard-Asus P7H55-M PRO up to 16gb ddr3 ram
Ram memory-4Gb ddr3
No Graphic card! And the price is 90euros
750 Ti is good but too over my budget(100e) So as i see best buy for me is R7 250 2Gb DDR5 for 100e

The platform isnt bad, and quite a lot better than your current, but the cpu is dual core unfortunatly. However, you can always put in a xeon x34xx and clock it up which is quad core and very cheap on ebay. ( I did that for my htpc).

I still wouldnt buy the r7 250. Surely you can get a GTX 660 used for less than that?

CPU stays for now. And GPU is going to be Asus Strix GTX 750 ti 2gb OC for 100eur+configuration 90eur =190eur good gaming PC!
Thanks again for your advice, it helped me allot!

 

[RobCrezz]

No problem, good luck.