Should I buy this graphics card?

[iseeu1001]

MSI N560GTX=
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050I1P38/?tag=gtplanet-20

Is it alright for $100 and in this day of age? I can't go higher then $110. Looks like it has cooper cooler+fan so it must be a really cooled card. Now it is used but they said it is IN RETAIL PACKAGING WITH ALL ACCESSORIES.

 

[Ameer67]

It mostly depends on what your needs are.

 

[iseeu1001]

Gaming of course what else. I been using a 9600 gso verto 768 MB GDDR3 OC(overclocked) from since it was launched(i think 2008) to this date and I only paid $100 also for it, now I think it's time to move on. It handles my games that I play good enough. COD black ops 2, Tomb raider, Infestation, Dirt 2,3,showdown, GTA IV, L4D2, Sniper Ghost warrior 2(with graphically glitches). I really want to play assetto corsa on my pc but my current card doesn't support direct x 10.1 so I am looking for a good enough card that can run all my games better than my last card did for the price. I know I can use a work around to play assetto corsa but I don't want blocky trees. I can't run cod ghost on my current 9600 either. I just wanna upgrade now until I will need to upgrade later like say from now 6 years or so.

 

[DQuaN]

What are the specs of your PC?

 

[sesselpupser]

Take a look at the almost brand new GTX 750 or 750Ti, I wouldn't buy a two-generation-old card now because you're just replacing old with old. I don't know how good they are, I don't think you'll be able to do better than medium-low graphics at 1080p in the latest games, but they're cheap ($20 more than the card you linked to, I think) and supposedly the most efficient graphics cards ever made in terms of performance per watt.

 

[TB]

What @neema_t said. 👍

Surely if you've been sitting on a 9600 for 6 years, waiting a few months to stretch your budget another $25 for a GTX750 is the right course of action. If you buy the 560, you'd be happy with it for a few months as it will be better than the 9600 but I'm betting that you'd be looking to upgrade again in the not too distant future. Buy once, buy right.

 

[iseeu1001]

What @neema_t said. 👍

Surely if you've been sitting on a 9600 for 6 years, waiting a few months to stretch your budget another $25 for a GTX750 is the right course of action. If you buy the 560, you'd be happy with it for a few months as it will be better than the 9600 but I'm betting that you'd be looking to upgrade again in the not too distant future. Buy once, buy right.

I can't go on other website only amazon.

 

[TB]

The same card, or some other variation of the 750, should be available on amazon.

 

[iseeu1001]

The one I linked looks better in the cooling department(The 560GTX) and it has a huge heatsink+ copper tubing+fan so I could OC it a little more if needed.


Are you talking about this? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B2ARY3S/?tag=gtplanet-20

The Pny geforce I just gave you is only one tiny heat sink+fan.

 

[sesselpupser]

Are you talking about this? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B2ARY3S/?tag=gtplanet-20

The Pny geforce I just gave you is only one tiny heat sink+fan.

That's a 650, we were talking about the 750, though the 750 does generally come with a tiny cooler like that. However, the GTX 750's TDP is 55W vs. the GTX 560's 219W, so it just doesn't have the same cooling requirement; a twin-fan cooler with heat pipes and all the rest of it would be massive overkill for a 55W GPU, in fact it might even be less efficient at cooling the thing than a small single-fan heatsink.

Having done some reading, it looks like your best option at $110 is either the GTX 560 if you want the highest performance but an obsolete card, or the 750 if you want something that is new and properly supported. If you could find another $40, though, there's this GTX 650Ti which outperforms the 560 and uses the current Kepler architecture, so it's the best of both worlds (except in terms of support I'd say the 750 will outlive the 650Ti, since Kepler will be phased out in favour of Maxwell once they've worked out the manufacturing process).

 

[DQuaN]

We need to know the specs of the computer. If you're just running a P4 with 2GB of RAM, the whole exercise is pointless.

 

[iseeu1001]

Looks like the card sold out :/ Is this any better?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DXUQQ1Q/?tag=gtplanet-20

or

http://www.microcenter.com/product/409617/GeForce_GTX_550Ti_1GB_PCI-Express_Video_Card_-_Refurbished

I can only spend about $80 in other store because I have a $30 credit in my amazon account.

Here's my computer

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5Ghz (recently upgraded from an Intel Pentium E5400 dual core 2.7GHz)
6 gigs of ddr2 at 800 Mhz
640GB HDD at 7200rpm sata 2 3.0 GB/S
120GB SSD samsung 840 Evo sata 2 3.0 GB/S(recently bought)
Nvidia Geforce 9600 GSO verto 768 MB GDDR3( I overclocked it a bit even thought this card is already overclocked from the manufacturer
600Watt Corsair CX600M

I know my computer is good enough to upgrade.

I looked at the 560 TI and all I can say is no
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004KZHRAM/?tag=gtplanet-20

I am not buying a card that has a missing cover.