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I want to buy this second hand for 40€.

Is it much of an upgrade over HD3850 256mb?
 
its gts450 and it is about twice as fast as the 3850. a gts450 is already pretty old card so you can probably finding much newer, faster and more efficient for the same price.

also when starting a thread like this you need to list your other specs in detail including resolution you want to play at.
 
460gtx 768mb OC is notably better or not?

I want to play at 1600x900, my other specs is 4gb ddr2, e3300@3.4ghz.
 
768mb is probably not vram to play some games smoothly at the settings even a 460 can handle at 1600x900. why cant you look at a more modern video card with 1gb of vram?

also with that cpu some games are just not going to play great no matter how much gpu power you throw at it.
 
cannondale06 said:
768mb is probably not vram to play some games smoothly at the settings even a 460 can handle at 1600x900. why cant you look at a more modern video card with 1gb of vram?

also with that cpu some games are just not going to play great no matter how much gpu power you throw at it.
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Pretty much 1 GB of GPU RAM is the floor for great image quality in gaming today - while I originally said that two years ago, my upgrade of less than 24 hours ago (from AMD HD5450 512MB GDDR3 to nV GTX 550 Ti 1GB GDDR5) drove that point home with a jackhammer.

The point is relevant for the following reasons:

1. GPU age - the GTX 550 Ti is not current-production by any stretch of anyone's imagination; GF116 predates Fermi, let alone Kepler.
2. Power draw - Like GTS 450 (and AMD's own HD57xx/67xx/7770/7790), it requires a single 6-pin PCI-E power feed - power-hungry it really isn't.
3. Capability - despite it being so long in the tooth, GTX 550 Ti is far from a wimp; the 192-bit memory bus (far wider than any of AMD's cards in that range, including current-gen) and 1 GB of GDDR5 lets me run untaxing but current games (any game using Valve's Source or Epic Games' Unreal engines, for example) all out (every setting firewalled) - at desktop resolution settings.
4. Price - reasonable-condition (or factory-refurbished, if you prefer), GTX 550 Ti (or even GTX 560 Ti) GPUs should not cost more than $100USD - I got my open-box one for $63.49 - including tax. So far, I have not found an older game I can't run either all-out or nearly all-out.
 
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