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hey guys what's up J here with Jays two cents I'm bringing you a video today on to an extreme budget card I mean this is doesn't get a whole lot more extreme budget than this the r7 250 here from AMD now this is an msi branded card but it was sent to me from AMD so i want to go ahead and say thank you guys over there and team red for sending me this OC edition r7 250 to take a look at your a7 250 series is good for people that want to do dual graphics with mini Kaveri ap use or maybe some of the older ap use where you can boost the performance of your integrated GPU by allowing them to basically crossfire with one of these lower end cards I don't know exactly how well it scales because I do not have an AMD APU system here to do the testing with but I can tell you who's going to be doing your review on this in a APU dual graphics situation that is colbert tech repair I definitely suggest you guys go check out his channel if you're interested in finding out how this performs in dual graphics configuration in his test bench now let's go ahead of the card just a little bit here nothing too impressive but the bare bare minimums of this card aren't too bad it does have one gigabyte of gddr5 PCI Express 3.0 compatible DirectX 11 point 2 compatible the graphics memory bus here is 128 bits and your outputs are you know your DVI D your HDMI your D sub solid caps Super ferrite chokes on their supports multi GPU MSI Afterburner real time live streaming and all that stuff with this card so I mean it's got basically all of your basics covered now just like some of the other graphics cards we've looked at in this price range it is super teeny tiny you don't cute yeah I mean it's got the MSI fan on there it tends to make it nice and quiet very basic cooler it actually looks a lot like the Intel stock cooler and cut in half sort of thing you know but whatever so there's your outputs as a standard VGA which i think is kind of strange foot anyway there's your HDMI and then there's your DVI and then your back plate with the msi branding on there very lightweight card does not require any sort of exhilarate that said let's just go ahead and see how the benchmarks do and then I'll tell you guys pretty much whether or not this is a card you should consider or pass up depending on what your scenario or your situation is so don't go away well you know I think I've got a pretty good idea of where this card fits in now now performance wise it pretty much did exactly what I thought it was going to do it did not put up any sort of impressive numbers but then again it's not really intended to I played some battlefield 4 on this guy and I put it on an ultra preset which I knew was going to just basically rip this card a new butthole but you know an FPS we're sitting in the mid-teens an average of 14 frames per second which you know is absolutely unplayable but where this card really stood out was in the medium preset in the medium preset on 1080p I was able to get an average of 43 frames per second on medium which was very playable in fact I scored some pretty awesome kills while doing the benchmarking for this unfortunately I wasn't recording so you guys just going to take my word for it but where this card really comes in is if you're one of those gamers are running a really old panel like a 900 P or even a 720 or 720p then this thing really jumps up into the 60s and high 50 frames per second range without any problems whatsoever so I really consider this card to be you know exactly what it is for the entry-level gamer or somebody who has a low resolution panel doesn't need all the bells and whistles and just wants to have consistent smooth frame rates at low resolutions if that's you then that's exactly where this card fits in now where I really feel this card belongs is sitting in some sort of an AMD APU system particularly Kaveri if you have that now but it still works with any of the eight and a ten APU systems but if you could set this up in dual graphics I think it's going to really show you know its true potential when it's able to be working in tandem with another internal GPU or APU or something like that so make sure you go and check out Colbert tech repair his channels down in the description he's going to be taking one of these r7 250 s and he's going to be doing a dual graphics demonstration and showing you it's just how well it can do so guys I'm gonna go ahead and get on out of here tell me what you're using when it comes to entry-level graphics and what kind of resolutions are you running with those entry-level cards or what games you playing help each other decide what's right for you guys depending on your playstyle and your preferences and as always I thank you guys for watching and I will see you in my next video