Whats a good low end graphics card

[Silentvoice]

Hi All, What's a good low end graphics card? Trying to help a friend, she built her own, but got burnt on a Diamond HD6670 card which Diamond is dragging their feet on replacing. I was thinking a GT630, she is trying to keep the cost under $70 dollars. She's not a big gamer so something low end would be good. Her setup is:
Asus M5a97 LE R2.0
AMD FX 6 core series
16 gig memory
power supply Corsair 600 watts
Case Rosewill with ample cooling

Her biggest mistake was sending in her warranty cards before she assembling everything. The rig worked fine except for the HD6670 given her BSOD from time to time and not pulling the card from the start. Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[i7Baby]

That mobo is not good. 16gb is overkill. Corsair CX600 are problematic.

A fx6300 will power up to say a 280x.

For $70, she will only get a very weak GPU eg Asus R7 240 - $60 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121799

 

[Richard Ricardo]

The Sapphire HD 7870 will run you at about $120 but its on par with (if not better than) the Nvidia geforce 660ti which costs at least $200. At this point in time with all the new games coming out its better to spend the extra $50 cause I don't think a $70 card will even run most games.

 

[Martell1977]

At the ~$70 price point, it looks as though the GT 730 is the best bang for the buck:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-2.html

For ~$20 more you could step up the a R7 250X/7770, but with the way prices are right now, there is always a step up in performance for what seems a little more. If the budget is ~$70 and she's really isn't a gamer, the GT 730 w/GDDR5 is your best bet.

 

[i7Baby]

gt730 eg msi $70 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127798

about the same as a r7 240 - http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R7-240-vs-GeForce-GT-730

 

[Silentvoice]

The Sapphire HD 7870 will run you at about $120 but its on par with (if not better than) the Nvidia geforce 660ti which costs at least $200. At this point in time with all the new games coming out its better to spend the extra $50 cause I don't think a $70 card will even run most games.

Thanks Richard, I agree with you, but since getting burnt on the HD6670 by Diamond and the poor way they handle warrantee claims. She is not looking to spend a lot now on a replacement card. Later on she may, but for now just wants to get the rig up and running without it's crashing due to the HD6670 card.

 

[unknownofprob]

R7 240 GDDR5, lowest decent card I can recommend.

 

[Silentvoice]

At the ~$70 price point, it looks as though the GT 730 is the best bang for the buck:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-2.html

For ~$20 more you could step up the a R7 250X/7770, but with the way prices are right now, there is always a step up in performance for what seems a little more. If the budget is ~$70 and she's really isn't a gamer, the GT 730 w/GDDR5 is your best bet.

Thank you will look into that as well for her.

 

[Martell1977]

EVGA GT 730, 1gb, GDDR5, $69.99, $10 MiR and Free Shipping: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487050&cm_re=GT_730-_-14-487-050-_-Product

Tom's article specifically mentioned making sure to get the GDDR5 version. For the 2gb version it's $10 more at newegg.

 

[Cons29]

if memory serves me right, a 630 is even slower than what she had.
i would get a 750Ti, that is the lowest that i would go personally