Budget upgrade from NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

[rafsystems]

I have a NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT graphics card. This card has:
Dual Link DVI
Single Link DVI

I want to upgrade to a PCIe 3 card but i needs to have dual dvi, or one dvi and one vga, basically need to plug in two screens

I use mainly for non gaming and videos / youtube etc..

I do play a few 3d games but nothing i would say is needing for top end gpu specs.

so budget of max $100

 

[trents]

The hard part of what you are asking is that most modern cards that have any 3D gaming capability at all either do not have two DVI dual link ports or a VGA and a dual link DVI. Most all 3D game capable cards in recent years will have one DVI but not two and will not have VGA at all.

Here is the best I could do with your given criteria.

By the way, what 3D games do you play?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOTAC-NVID...m=323330605285&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

You can also do something like this to adapt a video card's HDMI port to DVI for the monitor input: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...t=0&_odkw=hdmi+to+dvi&LH_BIN=1&LH_TitleDesc=0

Adapting would open up your choices of video cards significantly as many low and mid range gaming cards will have DVI and HDMI ports. You might then look at say a GTX 1050 which has a little gaming pop. And I saw some used ones on ebay that would fit your budget.

 

[trents]

If you aren't stuck on Nvidia, there are some RX 550/560 cards on ebay within your price range if you get an HDMI to DVI adapter. Video card prices are way high since the mining craze struck going on 2 yr. ago now. They would give you a huge performance increase over what you have now.

 

[rafsystems]

i just realised that i have a vga to dvi adapter
so i can go with a card with one dvi and the other can be vga or i gues even hdmi with adapter

what about one like this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Asus-Amd...=item23b25558e5:g:eZgAAOSwysFcIOZB:rk:10:pf:0

Ive seen some cheaper ones but would these actually be good enough?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ONDA-NVI...h=item33d72e0fc0:g:hagAAOSwEKNZxIXf:rk:3:pf:0

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And I assume these are just cheap fake copies of the AMD versions?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/R7350-4G...d:g:91gAAOSwUYNaTHUy:rk:1:pf:1&frcectupt=true

 

[trents]

i just realised that i have a vga to dvi adapter
so i can go with a card with one dvi and the other can be vga or i gues even hdmi with adapter

what about one like this
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Asus-Amd...=item23b25558e5:g:eZgAAOSwysFcIOZB:rk:10:pf:0
No good for 3D gaming. Would work fine for everything else.

Ive seen some cheaper ones but would these actually be good enough?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ONDA-NVI...h=item33d72e0fc0:g:hagAAOSwEKNZxIXf:rk:3:pf:0
Same problem as with the one above.

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And I assume these are just cheap fake copies of the AMD versions?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/R7350-4G...d:g:91gAAOSwUYNaTHUy:rk:1:pf:1&frcectupt=true You assume correctly. Cheap Chinese knockoffs with modded firmware to report the advertised model correctly but which are actually less than that.

A card that is any good for 3D gaming at all will need to have GDDR5 memory. In your market it seems you can get what you want in your price range for general computing but not for gaming.

 

[Kenrou]

Grab a 1050/1050ti if you can get it at a bargain - faster/less wattage then either 550/560.

 

[rafsystems]

I have seen this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/173670503587

It says it has 4GB DDR5 RAM

BUT...

Is this a genuine AMD card as if you look on their official site for r7 cards one with these specs is NOT listed
https://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem/r7#

On their site it says the memory is 1GB or 2GB GDDR5 or DDR3

So whats the right opinion?

 

[Kenrou]

There is a 2gb GDDR5 version and apparently a 4gb from Yeston, but I would skip it as performance is fairly lower then even the 550, and if you do try a few games the fact that the generic only has 2gb will likely be a problem.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-r7-350.c3135

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/yeston-r7-350-4-gb.b5411

 

[freeagent]

I'm not sure if its helpful.. But last week I bought a GTX 970 FTW for 150 cad. It completely destroys the GTX 580 it replaces lol, and it doesn't hate trees and polar bears as much

I only mention it because I saw the ebay.uk link, and I would imagine 150cnd to be roughly the equivalent to your budget.