Refurbishing old PC, what gfx card should I use.

[megamind2255]

I'll start this thread by saying I am a cheap man. I have an old PC with an IPIBL-LB motherboard, a Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM, and no dedicated graphics card. I am thinking about bringing it back to life and only keeping the motherboard and HDD that it already has. This will also be my first PC build. I have already found some nice deals on 8GB of DDR2 RAM(what the motherboard supports), and an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, but I don't really know what graphics card I should use. I was thinking about a GTX 570 as they go for relatively cheap these days, but it has a rather high power consumption. I'm not looking forward to run the newest games as I am pretty sure that wouldn't be possible with these components, but still it will I think be fine for browsing the internet or playing an old game or two. I currently don't have the budget to invest on a completely new system, and even upgrading this one will be gradual, so for now that's out of the question. Thanks for reading through.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Well 950/960 1030/1050 R7 265 or similar.

 

[kraelic]

750TI or 950/960, the 10 series I think would have a Uefi issue with a core 2 bios.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Well i think there wouldn't be issue with 900 series but with 10 series i think some issues can be.

I know that i had 1050Ti with Asus p5g41T-M LX2/GB for one day and it worked.

 

[JUICEhunter]

The 570 will be held back with that setup, my i7 2600 was holding back my 780ti (similar to 570). 1050ti/1050 type GPU (or slower) as a good last GPU for that system.