Thread: How muchshould I expect to pay for a decent graphics card?
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Old 08-03-2011, 07:27 PM   #7
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Last year the Radeon HD 5000 series were king but lately it's the HD 6000 series. Same goes with Nvidia's GT(X) 400s and GT(X) 500s. The GT240 and HD 5670 are low power cards and do not require the extra 6-pin thing. I don't know about their current counterparts but I think they use a small amount of extra watts.

Sounds like you'd be okay with the HD 5670 which is DirectX 11 capable, has very low power consumption at idle and around 70w at full usage. I have the Nvidia counterpart, the GT240, but it was hard-locking my pc and I think the HD 5670 is better choice in hindsight. I only got it because it had Cuda and I love messing with video encoding but since it gave me problems I didn't actually get a chance to use it. I think I will try to install it again and see if the newer drivers fix my problem.
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