Best Sub $50 USD graphics card

Self bump for replying to a few other inquiries.

>>160174
Buy a used gtx 660 or higher (760, 770, 960)

>>160250
Any place in particular to look for those particular cards used for 50 bucks? EBay listings seem to be a little bit higher than my 50 dollar goal.

>>160264
wanna give a city name? or nah?

>>160264
Not eBay, unless you want one that's broken, fake*, or both.

* not really the right word because Nvidia still made the die, but there are loads of cards on ebay that're something like a Geforce MX 440 that's been BIOS modded to say it's a more modern card.

>>160568
Which brings me back to not wanting to buy used, that way I can have at least a warranty of some fashion to avoid DOA and bad cards, etc.

Any other suggestions for actual new cards on the market in the sub $50 category. It doesn't have to be a 1080, just need something for the World of Warcraft at acceptable frame rate and medium/low detail. Resolution isn't a big factor either as far as I'm concerned.

I've narrowed it down a little bit just going by what's available. Anybody care to weigh in on whether I should get a nvidia GT 710 or a Radeon HD 5450? Which one is likely to perform better? I haven't really been able to get a straight answer comparison between the two and also don't know if they will be quite good enough to run wow at 30-60 fps consistantly.

>>160632
The HD 5450 is truly ancient. In that price bracket you can get better, even from AMD.

The GT 710 would be a much better choice and should run WoW at acceptable frame rates. I mean, if she was happy with the HD 4350, pretty much *anything* is going to do better.

Be careful, though: what model/brand is it? There are versions that are slimmed down PCI-e 1x variants that are only good to drive displays and are completely unsuitable for gaming. Whatever you do, don't get one of those, get a card with a full PCI-e 16x interface.

>>160658
Yeah, I noticed those PCI-e 1x ones, I didn't even know they had those until I started researching this for her. I was just confused by the reviews I read for the GT 710 card, as most people rate it as very poor for graphics, but I think I'll give it a shot, I'm sure it will be better than what she currently has.

>>160670
Well, it *is* very poor, by any modern standard, if you went for a new system even the integrated Intel graphics are about as good. This clocks frame rates for Bioshock Infinite at 1080p on high at a whopping 6 FPS, and BI isn't exactly considered a demanding game anymore. On the other hand, this is WoW we're talking about, and the GT 710 at least benchmarks better synthetically than an HD 4350, so... it should do.

>>160672
Alrighty, might give the GT 710 a go, if she doesn't like it that's her problem. Thanks for the help.

>>160688
If you can, let us know how it worked out (as in the FPS she gets). If it doesn't work I can avoid advising it in the future and/or work on a better way to evaluate the really low end, since it's a morass of rebrands and cards that are never properly benchmarked (for obvious reasons).

>>160689
I'll be sure to do that.

>>160174
Protip: Avoid any nVidia card like the plague

>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JRSPXMQ/
>Gigabyte AMD Radeon R7 240 GDDR3-2GB DVI-D/HDMI/D-SUB OC Video Graphics Cards GV-R724OC-2GI REV2.0
>Price: $59.99
>used from $52.49

>>160808
That's a sub-$100 card, not a sub-$50 card. You're cheating. And don't tell me you'd really buy that used.

>>160813
There's nothing wrong with buying used.

>>160828
I'm not saying buying used never makes sense, but in a case like this, where you could save a whopping $7.50 if the stars align right at the expense of more hassle if they don't, I wouldn't bother.

>>160841
It's not a mechanical hard drive nor is it filled with cheap Chinese capacitors.

>>160841
You're being a Jew by limiting yourself to $50 but saving $7 is out of the question?