Need helping deciding a GPU

[JK7521]

I am looking into building my girlfriend a budget gaming pc and I need help on deciding what graphics card to get. Right now she only has an old VGA monitor but down the road plans on getting a decent 1080p monitor. I have no idea what games she will be playing but I know she loves to play dayz, minecraft, tombraider, castle crashers, and gary's mod on my computer so she will more then likely get those (also she loves sims so will defiantly without a doubt get sims 4). Here is the build so far http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zGL9nQ . I am hoping to not cross the $400 range but if this gpu is good enough and if its high recommended for a build like this then I can make exceptions, its just hard to scrape money at this point in our lives as we are both poor college kids. So if someone could please tell me which graphics card would be most ideal for this situation it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[rohitsharma359]

In your budget, a better build will be:

Processor: AMD Fx-6300/4300 (around $110)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P (around $80)
Graphics Card: AMD 7790/Radeon R7 260X (around $110)
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) (around $35)
PSU: Logisys 550 Watt (around $18)
HDD: opt for 1TB hard drive with 7200rpm (around $60)
Cabinet: Rosewill Micro ATX Mini (around $30)

Thanks

 

[TopLuca]

Alright so here's what I've done to your build : http://pcpartpicker.com/p/G9FsMp

I replaced the 4Gb of Ram and added 8Gb of RAM which will be very helpful at playing games on 1080p without stuttering .

The Corsair CX series aren't the best of PSUs however its still a solid tier-3 PSU and for 10 more bucks you get something better than your initial unrated PSU which might cost you your entire rig .

The R7 265 is a great GPU landing at 108 Bucks , it can play games on 1080p medium settings no problems and can play games on higher settings in some cases , Full Review : http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r7-265-review,3748.html

Here's a view of what you're getting :

* The Higher FPS the better.

The Cougar spike is a very solid case indeed and while the removal of the Optical drive might seem stupid for you however its no longer needed as you can boot through a USB Flash Drive and then down the road when you have 10 extra bucks add a cheap optical drive.

Your choice of the CPU and Mobo was great , nothing can't beat them at that price point.

Feel free to ask any questions.

 

[Fireman Dave]

Hi. The R7 250 is a decent little card. However, go for a model with 1GB DDR5 memory. The bandwidth of the DDR5 will be much more beneficial than the extra 1GB on the DDR3. 2GB memory on little card like the 250 is a marketing gimmick - it'd run out of puff before it used all that memory.
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