Best nvidia graphics card £100

[sickpup]

So chaps what's the best Nvidia bang for your buck around £100?

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Nobby the Bastard]

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[MarJay]

Nvidia graphics cards have literally gone stratospheric in the last year.

People are selling the empty boxes from the GTX 2060Ti for £40 for pity's sake. If you can avoid buying one now, I would because once lockdown eases the demand for cards will drop a bit. Also the chip fabs all shut down because of Covid too. It's like a perfect storm.

In fact, most hobby type products have gone up. RC models have increased a bit, two stroke motorcycles have gone nutsoid, but really that's all nothing compared to the pricing of graphics cards. My GTX1070 was on the expensive side when I bought it, about a year after it came out. As I recall I paid £300 for it. Nowadays the second tier Nvidia cards are going in retail for £1000. That's stupid money
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[duhawkz]

I've often wondered why you'd buy a box for something like thatand fraud is the only thing I can come up with.
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[MarJay]

[Im-a-Ridah]

GPU prices are extreme because:
1. Not enough advanced fab capacity around the 7nm mark. It's used for phones, Xbox, PS5, AMD CPUs, nVidia GPUs...
2. Covid demands for working from home
3. Miners start using the cards too

If you can wait until the end of the year the prices will probably crash as fab capacity increases, miners dump their old cards, people work from home less and 40 series GPUs get announced. Currently it's not a case of "how much" and more one of "is even in stock".

[sickpup]

It's an old Gen 3 I5 so would be pointless adding a new expensive graphics card which is why I asked about cards around the £100 mark.

Computer will mainly be used for office type work running dual screens and maybe some very old games so again no point spending a fortune on a graphics card.

So can anyone recommend an appropriate card around the £100 mark?

[xX-Alex-Xx]

You can get an Nvidia GT730 for around the 65 quid area.

https://www.newegg.com/global/uk-en/msi-geforce-gt-730-n730-2gd3v3/p/N82E16814127906

Or a GT1030 for just over a ton

https://www.newegg.com/global/uk-en/msi-geforce-gt-1030-gt-1030-2gh-lp-oc/p/N82E16814137140
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[UncleFester]

Scan have 1030s in stock for under a ton. But as said above, Gfx card stock is up and down like a tarts knickers at the moment. Everything is over priced / not available.

Bad time to buy.
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[Im-a-Ridah]

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[Pjay]

The Worlds gone mad.
I bought one of these for £170 new this time last year:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174630079533
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[Pjay]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254888991476

That seems reasonable.
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[blurredman]

I will sell my GeForceFX 5200 for £100.

It will be a great loss for me but for £100 i'll let it go for.
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[xX-Alex-Xx]

[Im-a-Ridah]

Get a GT710 and wait 6 months

[bladerunner]

last time I upgraded my gfx card it was crypto miners making card prices stupid.It took 6 months to get a ROG 1060 OC2 for £300, this time around I thought it would be an easy option.. WRONG!!
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[chris-red]

Short answer whatever you can get second hand. First number(2 numbers in newer cards) is the series second set of numbers is the performance level.

This is the Series Order (no 8 series) from oldest backwards. 30,20,10,9,7,6 etc.

For the second number generally 50/60 are lower end 70 is mid 80/90 is top. Anything that ends 10/40 is utterly pointless unless have no on board graphics and it is the cheapest card you can find. There is literally no point to a £100 (new) graphics card it barely does more than onboard graphics. Get the cheapest one you can or go SH.

As a very rough guide a every series performance goes up a step e.g. a 1070 will have similar performance to a 2060 and a 980. That is VERY rough and there are lots of exceptions.

Something else to consider is generally speaking the higher the performance level the more power the card needs. Unless you have a beefy PSU you may struggle to run a 70/80 level card.

TBH prices are insane at the moment. I sold 2x780s for £100 5 months ago. I'm not sure £100 would get you one now.


All that being said I wouldn't buy a card right now things are crazy price wise.
If you are buying it as an upgrade don't wait for things to calm down. If you just need a card by the cheapest thing you can that is compatible with your set up.
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[SpeedyCBR1100]

If it's any help, my IT supplier has GT1030's for £70.48 plus about a fiver postage.

Happy to get one for you on my account.

[Im-a-Ridah]