Looking for low budget card to run dual monitors, light autoCAD, and light-weight games

[nick_hags]

Hello everyone,
I am looking for a new graphics card to run my dual monitors, light autodesk inventor, support some low-resource games like War Thunder (I am not a huge gamer, but I do enjoy playing some free pc games), and generally to switch away from the integrated graphics on my motherboard. I can't find reliable drivers for my integrated graphics, and there are no drivers in the new windows 10 creators update for this. I am looking for a very low budget graphics card (<$100) that will last at least 4 years, and has relatively reliable driver support. From other posts, the top 2 graphics cards I've seen are the Radeon RX 460, and the GTX 1050, 1050 ti. I've been leaning towards the RX 460.

Here are my specs:
mobo: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3000 integrated graphics
cpu: AMD FX 4350 Quad-core
RAM: 12 GB ddr3 1066 MHz
Expansion slots: PCIe x16, PCIe x1, PCI, one of each
OS: Windows 10, 64-bit
PSU: 650W

My monitors are generic PnP monitors I bought from www.discountelectronics.com, connected with VGA and DVI-D cables. I noticed the RX 460 does not have VGA port, so I was going to use an HDMI-VGA adapter.

I'm a student in software and mechanical engineering, and this is just an upgrade to a custom build. I do not mind looking at refurb if it's reliable.

Thanks!

 

[dontlistentome]

None of the new generation cards from AMD or Nvidia offer analog(VGA) output. An 'active' adapter will be necessary if you want to use VGA. Also, it doesn't look like that motherboard has a UEFI bios, which the newer cards work best with. Your motherboard uses the 760g chipset. so I would look around online to make sure the 460 is known to work on that chipset.

Of older cards, guaranteed to be compatible, the AMD HD 7850/7870 and their derivatives like the R9 270s, would get you close to the 460 level of performance. Nvidia cards like the GTX 650 Ti and 660 are also probably enough for your use. Just be sure any card you get has 2gb vram and that your power supply has the connector you need(if any is needed). Older cards like these have VGA outputs, which would simplify things for you.

 

[nick_hags]

How would something like this work?
MSI Radeon R7 250, 128-bit oc ddr3. I looked through various compatibility checkers, and as far as I can tell, it supports 760G chipset.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127763

All of the R7 250 options I can find have OC, which would imply they come set to overclocked? Is there an option to undo that when it comes? Also, would the R7 240 fit my needs well at a significantly better price? All the options you cited were out of my budget