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Looking for a graphics card, redux

Discussion in 'Technical Discussion' started by plushifoxed, Jun 20, 2012.

  1. plushifoxed

    plushifoxed

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    I had a topic before, but it was posted... just under a year ago. So I figured I'd just make a new one.
    What I'm looking for is a card that can play relatively modern games (Sonic Generations, for example) at 1360x768, my monitor's native resolution, at 60fps. I'm trying to keep to around 100 bucks, but if I really, *really* have to, I'll dip a little further. Can anyone help?

    My specs
    OS: Windows 8 Release Preview, x64 (I've got nothing on it right now so I can always just drop back to Win7 if the drivers require it)
    CPU: i3-530 (2.93GHz, 2933 Mhz, 2 Cores, 4 Logical Processors)
    RAM: 8GB DDR3
    Motherboard: ASUS P7H55M Pro
    Expansion slots: 1 PCI Express x16, 1 PCI Express x1, 2 PCI (all of them are free)
    Display Adapter: built into the processor/motherboard (Intel HD Graphics)
    PSU: 400w (I ran my system through some PSU calculator and it said it was probably using around 200w right now, not sure how accurate that is)
     
  2. Thousand Pancake

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  3. Mastered Realm

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    This is better (even with less memory!). I have an Radeon 6870 CPU@945Mhz 1GB Memory@1150Mhz DDR5. I play Generations with AA on, 4x Anisotropic 1920x1080. 60fps. Rarely drops, but when does, drops to 56~57 briefly.