Best recommened Graphics card

[Argonaut110]

I've found a GeForce GT 640 within my budget and it's pretty small so I know it'll fit within my machine and It fits well within my PSU. Would that be a worthy buy for my system and would it fit me for the future and work well with everything I want it to work with? Or would I need a Dedicated Graphics chip for it?

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by Argonaut110

I've found a GeForce GT 640 within my budget and it's pretty small so I know it'll fit within my machine and It fits well within my PSU. Would that be a worthy buy for my system and would it fit me for the future and work well with everything I want it to work with? Or would I need a Dedicated Graphics chip for it?

im not familair with that GPU. ive never bothered to research specs below the Nvidea X50 series and the ATI X7XX series

[Argonaut110]

It's a 2GB card that checks the boxes for PSU, size and fits just into my budget (£8 I can scavenge somehow). Everyday when I do a bit of research into what GPu replacement I want and I seem to end up with a different card everyday. So i think I might settle on the Gt 640..If you can recommend a better 2GB card before Tuesday (maybe Wednesday if the video card comes late) then please do, but even if it doesn't make a difference, I'll post my specs anyway.

*http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=32011
Does this mean the card is actually rubbish? I couldn't make sense of it.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Argonaut110

I've found a GeForce GT 640 within my budget and it's pretty small so I know it'll fit within my machine and It fits well within my PSU. Would that be a worthy buy for my system and would it fit me for the future and work well with everything I want it to work with? Or would I need a Dedicated Graphics chip for it?

The thing about graphics card numbers is that the first one is the year or series. So on that basis a GT 640 is probably better than a GT 540, but quite probably worse than a GT 550, though depending on how much progress the GPU maker made between the series GT 5xx and GT 6xx maybe not. You can depend on a say GT 610 being worse than a GTX 580, or even a GTX 480, but when it gets to a GTX 280 you have to look it up, in this case the GTX 280 would be considerably stronger, but IIRC there was no GTX 180.

Radeons are somewhat similar, a HD 7970 will be better than a HD 6970, but a HD 7870 is pretty similar, a HD7850 will be less powerful, and a 76xx will be much weaker.

This site seems to be useful:

http://www.gpureview.com/database.php

Please note that laptop GPUs use different but similar naming systems, typically laptop graphic cards are desktop graphic cards with higher numbers attached.

[Argonaut110]

I see what you mean, thanks.
When I power the system up I'll see what specs there is, then I'll have to see what needs to be upgraded to play Il-2 CoD on it. (probably bleddy well everything ) I can tell I'm gonna have to wait a while to upgrade everything, but since I don't want to buy a new PC to use, I suppose that's just how it'll go. I've still got FSX and Il-2:1946 to cart me along until I can finally play it, Or if by some chance an update comes around that somehow makes it able to run on my system...'dout it. Le sigh.