I'm looking to upgrade my son's PC for X-mas but not sure what is a good video card for PCI Express. I don't want to upgrade the power supply (if I don't have to) so it's the stock power supply for a 2 year old eMachines PC. I guess the power supply in it now is 250 or 300 watt.
What's a decent video card that will accelerate the graphics for video editing and making animations via Macromedia Flash?
Thanks in advance!|||hi mate
there are many decent pci-express graphic cards to choose from however you can get decent performance and good frame rates from cards below £100 and why spend £300 or more on a high end gaming card thats gonna give you double the frame rate when the frame rates from the sub £100 cards are good enough (30+fps)
the first card i shall recommend is the MSI HD 4850 OC 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI Out PCI-E Graphics Card ( http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172948),an… this is one of the most popular cards in the sub £100 range,and this is due to its price to performance ratio,in other words the performance in comparison to its cost is second to none,for example it has a 640mhz core clock and 512mb of gddr3 memory running at 1986mhz,and with a 256bit memory interface and a 63.5gb/sec memory bandwidth and you have a card that will run todays games pretty well
the next card i am recommending is the PALIT GTS250 Green 1GB GDDR3 HDMI DVI VGA Out PCI-E PhysX and Cuda ready PCI-E Graphics Card ( http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168910 ) ...and as a owner of a gts250( the xfx version ) i can tell you this is a awesome gaming card and will run todays games at high detail and resolution
specs wise theres a 738mhz core clock and a massive 1gb of gddr3 memory clocked at 1100mhz(2200mhz ddr effective),and with a 256bit memory interface and a 70.1gb/sec memory bandwidth this is a extremely powerful card for its price,and then include the physx and cuda support and you have the best sub £100 gaming card there is...and since the HD4850 does not support any physx features this makes the gts250 a far more appealing purchase
the last and not least recommendation is the "Gainward GT240 1GB GDDR5 DCI VGA HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card"( http://www.ebuyer.com/product/180042 )...and allthough this may not be as fast as the other two its technology is newer and it supports the faster gddr5 memory which equates to a cooler and quieter card which has to be a good thing !
and its specifications are not too bad aswell,and these include a 585mhz core clock and 1gb of gddr5 memory running at 1800mhz,and with a 128bit memory interface and support for physx and cuda and this is a serious gaming card and especially good for anyone with a sli enabled motherboard
all these cards will run all desktop tasks including video editing,media conversion and will even run some cad applications,however your current 300watt psu will struggle to cope with any of these graphic cards,however you can buy a capable budget psu for less than £35 that will happily and safely power any of these cards,the Sumvision PowerX2 700W PSU ( http://www.ebuyer.com/product/175541 ) costs just £22 and is rated at a massive 700watts and has all the nessecary power connectors including the most important pci-express 6pin connector(required for the above cards)
and the CIT 700W Black Edition PSU ( http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169063 ) is another decent psu,infact of all budget power supplys this is the brand i would most trust,and this particular model is excellent,it has a rated power of 700watts and also has dual +12v rails with 20A on each rail...this is more than enough to run all the above cards with the gts250 requiring 24A on the +12v rail and the HD4850 needing 26A on the +12v rail
summary : so these are just three of the many gaming cards you can get for under £100,allthough there are also some cards for under £50 that will run games at lower detail levels,however theres one more card i recently found thats just over £50 however at this price you would expect a budget card thats average in performance...wrong....check out the
Asus ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 1024MB ( http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prods… )...yes for just over £50 you can get a gaming card with 2 x gpu,s...yes two graphic cards built into a single board and for £50 !
and performance is pretty good aswell,it has a 668mhz core( x 2 ) and 1024mb( 512mb x 2) of gddr3 memory running at 1650mhz...and with a 512bit( 2 x 256bit memory interfaces) and support for HDMI and you have a awesome card at a thoroughly amazing price...infact if you had a crossfire enabled motherboard and a 800watt or more power supply you could run a quad crossfire gaming rig for ljust over £100,,,and thats if you could find any compatible drivers to run this kind of set-up
i hope this has helped,any problems let me know
good luck mate !|||It's a huge difference whether it's a 250W or a 300W.
250W - EVGA GeForce 7200 GS:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/…
300W - EVGA GeForce 9400 GT:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
The GeForce 9500 GT requires a 350W Power Supply.|||I would recommend going with the following video card: 9500 GT. Its a good card for computers that don't have very big power supplies and also it will work best for your video editing and making animations via Flash.
Here is the link for the video card below:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500072&cm_re=9500gt-_-14-500-072-_-Product
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