Quick Question about a Video card

[jubbajabba07]

Hello Tom's Hardware community!
This is my first post and I have a quick question about a video card.
I have a kinda low budget, and I was looking at this card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130818
What do you think ?

 

[Robert Pankiw]

There are better cards for the same price, such as the 7750/70.

As one example of many: http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=72479

In the original review of the 640, it wasn't as good as the 7750. In the recent Crysis 3 review, the 7750 performed on par with the 650 (The 640 was not considered).

If you insist on Nvidia, get the 650/650ti: http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=76612

Personally, I'd get the 7770 for ~$100, or go up to something like the 7850 / 660.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[jubbajabba07]

Thanks, Robert. 🙂

 

[steamroller16]

Definitely the 7770 for ~$100. And you don't need a 4GB of video ram on a low end graphics card (it's just marketing).

Same card on newegg if you prefer:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127687

EDIT: removed hard drive

 

[jubbajabba07]

Definitely the 7770 for ~$100. And you don't need a 4GB of video ram on a low end graphics card (it's just marketing).

Same card on newegg if you prefer:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127687

As for the hard drive (not sure what exactly is cheap to you):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148697

Thanks, that is about what I was thinking on the HDD. I might just buy it, and I'll probably purchase the 7770 in the next month or two.