I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card on my gareway dx4822 because minecraft on it sucks and I like the computer too much to get a new one. Does anybody have good graphics cards for this computer?
Good graphics cards for gateway dx4822?
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Get the radeon R7 240 1gb gddr5 graphics card, it should play most games at medium - high quality on 720p resolution. It costs around $60
Anything higher will get bottlenecked by your cpu and ram
George
Video cards I recommend are the Radeon 7770 at $100 or so, or the 7790, or 7850, or 7870 for $200. Anything over the 7870 gets way too expensive. The 7770 is great for general use, and light to medium gaming. The 7870 would be for heavier gaming. The 7770 is the most bang for the buck, at around $100 (it started off costing $160!). (The Radeon R7-260X is like a Radeon 7790, and the R9-270X is like a 7870, they just cost more, being more recent cards.) The best video card for $200 is the 7870.
Remember, computers are built with a power supply just barely able to power them as they are. A video card of any kind requires an upgrade of the power supply. Even the video cards that don't have extra power connections can draw up to 75 watts from the motherboard. I would recommend 750 watts, major name brand, semi-modular, 80+ rated, single 12 volt rail, active PFC, and so on. Cost about $135. It's always best to have more power than you need. Power supplies are happiest running below their maximum, and they live much longer lives.
Total cost would be $100 to $200 for the video card, and $135 or so for the power supply.
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