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Title: "refurbished" evga 960, reasonable idea?
Post by: pembquist on October 08, 2016, 01:06:11 PM

My old box is a dell inspiron 531s with a new 500watt+ power supply, an Athalon 64 x 2 6000+ ~3.0GB, 4gig of memory running Vista 32. Looking for the cheapest way to get a playable frame rate I believe this card would work, (has drivers.) Is this a decent price?

Title: Re: "refurbished" evga 960, reasonable idea?
Post by: Bizman on October 08, 2016, 01:10:34 PM

You didn't tell the price.

It seems like a viable idea to be used until the support for Vista ends next April. After that, who knows, you might be able to find a decent Win7 system for that card or at least a valid license to be used on your current system.

Title: Re: "refurbished" evga 960, reasonable idea?
Post by: pembquist on October 08, 2016, 11:16:44 PM

Duoh! Maybe I need I brain card for my skull as well, here is the link I forgot: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487153&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-Video+Card+-+Nvidia-_-N82E16814487153&gclid=CJbkzrHuzM8CFUtNfgodJdEBWg&gclsrc=aw.ds (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487153&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-Video+Card+-+Nvidia-_-N82E16814487153&gclid=CJbkzrHuzM8CFUtNfgodJdEBWg&gclsrc=aw.ds)

The price is 160.00

Title: Re: "refurbished" evga 960, reasonable idea?
Post by: Chalenge on October 08, 2016, 11:31:45 PM

You can get a brand new Zotac for the same price (actually $169) on Amazon. A 1060 is also just $199.99 which is more, I know.

Probably either one will be seriously bottlenecked, but you should be able to move it forward to your next system.

(EDIT) Comparison (http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1744?vs=1771)

Title: Re: "refurbished" evga 960, reasonable idea?
Post by: Bizman on October 09, 2016, 05:13:17 AM

Thanks for the upgrade.

As Chalenge said, a new one can be got for the same price and the new 1060 3 GB for just a little more. For such a small price difference I'd choose the 1060, it's faster and will be supported longer. Plus the extra 1 GB of RAM might be useful with future texture upgrades.

As for budget issues, I was offered a used card much better than my current one for €150. It's much less than the €250 the 1060 costs here. However I chose to save the 150 until my budget allows me to choose by quality instead of investing a good amount of money to something I can't wholeheartedly trust.