Which of these cards is better?

**c_hegge** · 01-11-2013, 01:13 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

They'd be close, but I'd probably get the GT640.

**shovenose** · 01-11-2013, 01:17 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

Thanks for the recommendation. Could you please be specific as to why? thanks.

**c_hegge** · 01-11-2013, 01:44 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

It's probably slightly more powerful. The HD6xxx series are a previous generation, and the GT6xx series are current. I'm guessing that both would have been about as up-market as each other, so it's either a current mid-range card (the 640) or a previous generation mid range card (the 6670)

**mariushm** · 01-11-2013, 03:52 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

I'd say neither of those.

The price is too high for the performance of the video cards, they're both relatively slow.

It's much slower than the 6670: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5969/z...-640-review-/9
Even though the GT640 is newer, it's just slow due to too many things cut out of it - probably it's fault chips nVidia managed to recover by disabling portions of it.

At that price you can go for a 7750 which is a bit faster:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131481
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102969

If you want to save money, you could go with this at 74$:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102992

The ddr5 memory on your choice won't give that much performance increase compared to this version with ddr3, to be worth the extra 15$.

**shovenose** · 01-11-2013, 09:32 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

Ok so you think your suggestion http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102969 is better then both that I listed?
Thanks

**mariushm** · 01-11-2013, 09:42 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

It's better than both in the first post, especially at games. At under $100, 7750 is about the best bang for buck.

If it's just going to be used for watching movies and windows desktop stuff, even a 5450 would be enough and that's around $25... the 5450 is pretty much at the performance level of onboard video cards (780g chipset and family, intel hd3000 etc)

**shovenose** · 01-11-2013, 09:45 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

Well why would I buy a 5450 then? Already have Intel integrated graphics!

**Uranium-235** · 01-11-2013, 09:57 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

they're still all rather weak, what are you planning on playing?

**mariushm** · 01-11-2013, 10:03 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

You would buy one if you get a system

*without integrated graphics or
*if your $3-400 card dies and you need something temporary until the next month when you get your paycheck or
*if you need a system with multiple monitor support.'
*if you may want to do some hybrid crossfire with the onboard video card (for example with 880g chipset board)

Depending on chipset, some intel motherboards don't support the video card that's inside the cpu, other chipsets can only do dvi/hdmi or vga but not both so a 25$ card is an easy way to add second monitor support (or even support 3 with some cards)...

They have their place on the market.

**shovenose** · 01-11-2013, 11:36 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

OK well it plays Minecraft and GTA San Andreas

**mariushm** · 01-11-2013, 01:32 PM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

Those games pretty much any card will play them.
Minecraft is 2D and GTA San Andreas is DirectX 7 i think.. any card can do that game, even the crappiest onboard video card of today.

**c_hegge** · 01-11-2013, 02:37 PM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

^
Agreed. The Intel HD3000 would do fine for both of those games.

**shovenose** · 01-11-2013, 04:31 PM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

Hmm well that is a good point. Minecraft is a bitch because it's picky about drives and requires a lot of graphics and processor to run well, (thanks Java, lol!)...

I'll try it on the integrated but I doubt it's gonna be so great

**Uranium-235** · 01-11-2013, 04:44 PM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

nope. most of that java is CPU ran. I had my cousins kid with a DV...5 I think. I forget, but it wasn't a DV 6000 or 6. Anyways, it had ati graphics, minecraft ran slow, I checked the CPU usage and it was 100% all the time. Java is mostly CPU ran

your APU will do just fine

if you want a cheap video card to run those, get a geforce GT 610, seriously SA ran decent on my geforce 3

**shovenose** · 01-11-2013, 08:59 PM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

OK so I bought a Radeon HD 5770 for $50. good?
Also got a pair of 20" Dell LED monitors for $50. (not a typo; that's $25/monitor)
Total of $100!

**lorins_core** · 01-12-2013, 01:58 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

For me....

EVGA 02G-P4-2645-KR GeForce GT 640 2GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

**Time2Retire** · 01-12-2013, 06:58 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

Originally posted by shovenose

OK so I bought a Radeon HD 5770 for $50. good?
Also got a pair of 20" Dell LED monitors for $50. (not a typo; that's $25/monitor)
Total of $100!

Do you sometimes use Linux? Then any ATI/AMD Radeon card isn't what you want. They have horrible Linux drivers, and no better than using the old Intel i915 family of video drivers. Using nVidia cards is the only way to go in Linux, as they have a wonderful Linux driver. The game platform Valve has been working on a Linux version of Steam, and had just released it's beta version to the public. Because of Valve's interest in Linux, both Intel and nVidia have done improvements in their graphics drivers.

http://steamforlinux.com/?q=en/node/147

http://steamcommunity.com/linux

**shovenose** · 01-12-2013, 10:55 AM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

I don't use steam and this computer does not run Linux

**Uranium-235** · 01-12-2013, 12:49 PM

Re: Which of these cards is better?

equal to about the GTX 470. You should be able to play a hell of a lot more than gta:SA on that.

get steam. buy some games. or pirate them, whatever. I would recommend the fallout series, but not for pirating, zenimax goes after downloaders ISP's

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