Doing a favor and upgrading a generic dell PC to give to a kid. I tried sifting through the options on newegg and my head started hurting I'm so out of the loop. His pc has an E7500 w/ 4gb of ram, Dell mobo, power supply, ect, so the card cannot need external power.
Don't care whether AMD or Nvidia.
I would like to find that sweet spot where I'm maxing out the cpu while staying affordable as possible; if low powered cards are even to that point yet.
Don't mind last gen tech if its a good fit.
Main focus for the PC aside from schoolwork will be older games- hl2, css, crysis on med/low, stuff like that. Whatever an old core2 can handle.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Don't care whether AMD or Nvidia.
I would like to find that sweet spot where I'm maxing out the cpu while staying affordable as possible; if low powered cards are even to that point yet.
Don't mind last gen tech if its a good fit.
Main focus for the PC aside from schoolwork will be older games- hl2, css, crysis on med/low, stuff like that. Whatever an old core2 can handle.
Anyone have any suggestions?