Is there any way a $400 Graphics card would be bad for gaming?

>>60964523
No.

>>60964523
yes its very harmful to your pc
send it to me instead

>>60964576
How much will it raise the cost of my build with me needing more expensive parts potentially?

>>60964523
Like mobile games, GPUs get more powerful the more you pay for them.

For example, if you pay $900 for a GTX 550, it'll outperform a 1080 Ti at $700

>>60964653
Interesting. Can you explain why?

>>60964523
If you were aming at that price range, the cpu ill just bottleneck the cpu
i.e the cpu will not be powerful enough to use all the power of the gpu

>>60964523
>>60964620
It will NOT raise the rest of your budget. You're getting a better GPU and saving $170 off what you were going to spend. You now have $170 extra to shift to other components.

Even if the free $400 GPU now slightly outclasses your other components, it's not a problem. Yes, that will result in a bottleneck on the CPU, but that only means you're getting less performance than this GPU can deliver. You're still getting better performance than your build with a $170 GPU could do.

A bottleneck only means your build is somewhat unbalanced, and usually this means you wasted money on an over-specced part only to have it held back by other under-sepcced parts. This typically means you would have done better to spend that extra money on other components. But in your case, the GPU is free so the point is moot. A bottleneck does not lower your performance apart from capping it at the performance of the best part in your system.

So yes, obviously take the free GPU.

>>60964697
NVidia's telemetric driver components unlock performance features based on price paid, as determined by mining browser history, cookies, cache, etc.

>>60964764
Makes sense. Do you happen to know where can I buy a $900 GTX 550?

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>>60964523
>is there any way this $400 card would be bad for my gaming PC?
yes, pic related

>>60964789
Most sellers on eBay are willing to sell you something at a higher price than they've listed it at if you message them and ask. They might act a bit confused at first but they'll usually take your money if you insist.

>>60964825
Okay, that is significantly less performance than the 1050ti you'd probably end up with at your $170 budget. However, I'd still take his free GPU. If it's something nicer than a 1050ti, use it. If it's a W5100, sell it on eBay and add the money you make off it to your budget to build a nicer PC. -- Remember, while it's not a good card for gaming, it's useful for CAD and someone will be happy to buy it.

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>>60964825
That one will actually run modern games at low settings.

This one won't, at all.

>>60964523
Workstation cards are waaaaay overpriced and often stick around for generations, so that $400 card could be a workstation version of a three generation old $120 gaming card.
Video cards and processors also don't really reduce in price when new ones come out, they just sit at their old price until somebody is dumb enough to buy them, so even if it's a gaming card it could have been a generation old at the time. So it could be like a GTX 770, and that gets outperformed at the $170 level now.

>>60964739
Thanks for the advice and taking the time to write the reply. I'll definitely take it then and see how I can use the budget saved to get the most out of it

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>>60964912
I can find things listed for way more than they're worth too. For PC parts it especially happens with discontinued, outdated items where only 3rd party marketplace sellers are available.

>>60964996
That Matrox card is not outdated/discontinued.

Caveat: make sure your PSU can handle it. An unplanned $400 card could very well push the build over the edge if you were planning on getting a really low-power one.

That said a good 750W PSU costs like $150, and a decent one $100, and that can be used to power multiple flagship cards in SLI/crossfire. For a single $400-tier card 500W is probably overkill, and you can get a top-tier memeium-efficiency modular one for probably $100 easily - meaning you still save $70 on your build and get a very nice GPU.

>>60965046
Yes it is you retard

>>60964523
First what card is it?

>>60964523
>he needs to consult /g/ to see if he should take a free $400 gpu

are you retarded by chance OP?

>>60966028
He doesn't know, he isn't great with hardware tech but he knows it's a $400 card so I guess I'll find out tomorrow

>>60966297
Potentially.

It was more I was always going to take it but wasn't sure if it would mean I'd have to spend way more on everything else. Reading here though and I'll still try to keep the same budget and accept the bottleneck

>>60964739
this guy is right do what he says

>>60964523
If the card was $400 a year ago it's worth half of that today. Also as others mentioned it could be a shitty Quadro or Firepro card that'll get outperformed by a PS4.

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>>60964739
The only caveat to this is it could be some kind of weird workstation card that is not at all good for gaming.

In fact it very likely could be as a business would be more likely to order something like that than some xxx1337DDR gamer card.

It may make sense for OP to sell the card on ebay and use that money for a gaming card. It is very possible a $400 more than one year old workstation card is out classed by a 200dollarish card today

>>60964789
>Makes sense. Do you happen to know where can I buy a $900 GTX 550?
how does that make sense, how are you getting trolled this hard

for you

>>60964523
The only way that this could be potentially harmful is if its a quarto card and most likely it wont be as bad as a 150$ budget card the only thing that may hurt you is the fact that you may need to get a bigger power supply to run it dont listen to anyone about this bs on here

>>60966799
Ignore the LARPers

>>60966799
Is this bait?

>>60964523
That depends on how many years the card has been sitting inside your uncle's ass.

>>60966783
Haven't though of this. A $400 USD business card will probably be pretty shitty, OP.

>>60968802
He said it's been almost a year since they bought it

>>60964653
Kek

>>60964837
Troll level master

>>60970969
Prolly fine then.

Also I was aiming to get a motherboard that can support max DDR3, so is my biggest priority with a potentially free powerful card to get DDR4 and a motherboard that can support it or should I get a larger SSD?

>>60964523
You run the risk of the GPU overpowering the other, lesser components. Eventually you might lose all control over the system and the GPU will just do whatever it wants to.
Be very careful with this offer.

>>60972861
That's nothing that a hammer won't solve.

>>60964523
>Is there any way a $400 Graphics card would be bad for gaming?
Interesting question.
Yes and it's whats wrong with the industry today. If it's an Nvidia graphics card and they have a high market share because people spent that much on a mid-tier GPU it will encourage them to keep doing it, also Nvidia constantly slow down and break games in an effort to hurt the competition and their own customers so that an upgrade is required even if the hardware is technically capable to running fast and smooth.
Their practices are bad for gaming for you and other people who have not purchased their cards. Stop it.