Nvidia or Radeon approx £60?

[dalcross]

any recommendation for a graphics card to go with a 4690K proc? not major gaming, but would like to have it in the locker for future?

[Marcvs]

If you cam stretch to it I saw some R7 270X's for £80 ish

[scaryjim]

If your graphics budget is genuinely only £60, I'd stick to the HD graphics built in to the processor. You'll struggle to get a card that is sufficient an upgrade at that price point: you'll be turning down settings and resolution to try to get playable frame rates for most modern games. Do some more saving; aim for a £100 graphics budget and you start getting to the point where you can turn most of the settings back up and still get playable framerates, which will give you a better overall gaming experience. HD graphics are more than capable enough for casual gaming, and a £60 graphics card isn't really capable of anything beyond casual gaming.

[DanceswithUnix]

If your graphics budget is genuinely only £60, I'd stick to the HD graphics built in to the processor. You'll struggle to get a card that is sufficient an upgrade at that price point: you'll be turning down settings and resolution to try to get playable frame rates for most modern games. Do some more saving; aim for a £100 graphics budget and you start getting to the point where you can turn most of the settings back up and still get playable framerates, which will give you a better overall gaming experience. HD graphics are more than capable enough for casual gaming, and a £60 graphics card isn't really capable of anything beyond casual gaming.

Things aren't quite that bad, though I would agree saving for at least an R7 260X is worth the expense.

From a recent Anandtech article, check the integrated graphics score vs a £40 video card:





The target at £60 would be something like: http://www.ebuyer.com/581419-msi-r7-...r7-250-2gd3-oc which would be faster than the 240, though not amazingly so.

Ideally you want to hold off for something like http://www.ebuyer.com/642690-sapphir...s-11222-07-20g

[scaryjim]

OK, the HD graphics on the 4690 doesn't hold up quite as well as I thought it did! Although those graphs actually make a better point: an outlay of only £42 will get you an R7 240 which will give you the option of low-res, low-settings at around 60fps, or increasing either the resolution or settings while still maintaining playable frame rates (~30fps). Ebuyer have an XFX model and a powercolor both at £42.

Personally I wouldn't bother looking at the R7 250 with DDR3 memory as I don't think you'll get an extra £20 of value from it. Either get the cheapest card that will improve your experience now (the R7 240) or hold off for the better long-term investment (the R7 260X).

[DanceswithUnix]

OK, the HD graphics on the 4690 doesn't hold up quite as well as I thought it did! Although those graphs actually make a better point: an outlay of only £42 will get you an R7 240 which will give you the option of low-res, low-settings at around 60fps, or increasing either the resolution or settings while still maintaining playable frame rates (~30fps). Ebuyer have an XFX model and a powercolor both at £42.

Personally I wouldn't bother looking at the R7 250 with DDR3 memory as I don't think you'll get an extra £20 of value from it. Either get the cheapest card that will improve your experience now (the R7 240) or hold off for the better long-term investment (the R7 260X).

The 250X with 1GB of DDR5 wasn't much over £60, and it looks like it has plenty of shaders on it. I know from personal experience that the 260X is fairly capable, and from this benchmark it looks like the 250X might be the best bet here:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1126?vs=1044

So for £17 over budget I would go for http://www.ebuyer.com/645018-powerco...-250x-2gbd5-he

That is a 2GB GDDR5 card as well.

[scaryjim]

Yeah, the 250X is a rebadged 7770, which is a significantly chunkier card than the R7 250, although it clocks slightly lower. A 2GB one at that price is a decent find, if the OP can stretch the budget a bit.

[abaxas]

TBH something like a r5 240 or Gt 730 (gddr5) won't be much of an upgrade over your built in GPU.

Also the 250X is a bit of a power drinking beast.

I'd just stick with the HD 4600 in your CPU.

[HalloweenJack]

TBH something like a r5 240 or Gt 730 (gddr5) won't be much of an upgrade over your built in GPU.

Also the 250X is a bit of a power drinking beast.

I'd just stick with the HD 4600 in your CPU.

power drinking `beast`

http://www.eteknix.com/powercolor-am...ard-review/18/

yeah....... think they disagree with you ...

[jigger]

any recommendation for a graphics card to go with a 4690K proc? not major gaming, but would like to have it in the locker for future?

I would probably go another £20 and pick up an R7 260X. It offers the latests architecture for DX12 and Display port 1.2a so you have the option of a VVR monitor upgrade with freesync down the road.