Budget 0-20k Advice for an office PC

[TerrorBlade]

Hi, guys

I'm retiring my gaming PC to my dad's office. It has an ASRock P67 Extreme4 mobo. I sold my GTX 960 2gb graphics card as it would be overpowered for basic AutoCad and word editing use cases.

However, since this mobo doesn't have an integrated gpu, I need a very basic dedicated gpu to power it.

I was looking at http://amzn.in/6HAt0DQ
Zotac GT 710 1GB PCI 2.0 graphics card for 2350 INR.

Do you think I should simply buy it or try to find a used card for cheaper?

 

[vivek.krishnan]

If you do not mind getting a used card, I think you can get better used cards for just an added few hundred bucks. You might want to look at the FS/WTB forums.

 

[TerrorBlade]

But, would it be worth it to get a better card for my given use case? Even with the better card, if I'm not going to see any performance difference, then it wouldn't be worth the effort of finding a buyer, testing, haggling, etc

 

[wayne_rooney]

Zotac GT 710 1GB PCI 2.0 graphics card for 2350 INR.

GT 710 2GB DDR5 is also under 3k. Check that out too.

 

[Marcus Fenix]

AFAIK for light AutoCAD and word processing you can go with the one you picked as your only use for a GPU would be to drive the monitor.

However for heavy duty AutoCAD you would need a pro class GPU (i.e. Quadro or FirePro) which are much more expensive than consumer class cards.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servle...&release=2014&edition=2&os=8192&manuf=1&opt=1

 

[TerrorBlade]

Thank you! Got the 710 1GB - light autocad use is the requirement. No graphics work