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in the current cryptocurrency mining apocalypse boom there is only one thing you can do to save yourself and that is go out buy a used graphics card so today I have a top 10 list the gravis cards that I'm constantly looking for and I'm gonna throw in some performance figures for you guys what you can expect out of these cards and also what you can expect to pay for them now keep in mind what I would pay for one of these guards and what if someone else would pay for these cards aren't doing the same I'm always generally hustling for a good deal on graphics cards so I think what I would pay would be a little bit lower than the norm but anyway I'll give it to you guys as a guide so let's get on with it welcome back to take your city in today's top 10 graphs cards will be in USD so you can go into Google convert that US dollar into your favorite currency and you'll get an idea of what I expect to pay now of course in remote areas in some parts of Europe as well generally the prices are higher I haven't really accounted for that I've only really accounted for what I would pay in Australia in US Dollars terms which seems a little bit weird but the US dollar deals at least from what I tell with my viewers and what they show me on Twitter is very similar so let's get on with that list number 10 we've got coming in here the gtx 570 and GTX 580 the gtx 570 i'd pay around about $30 max for this and the 580 $40 now you can expect around about firestrike score but 4,400 on this 570 and about 4960 points on the 580 now this will give you entry-level 1080p gaming on very low settings or low settings games like dota 2 league of legends that csgo will play fine on these cards at 1080p however pub G may struggle a bit especially on the 570 and even on the 580 with their veer and buffers being limited at one point three and one point five gigabytes respectively you'll get away with playing 720p on practically any title out there and 1080p most games except for exceptions like pub G stud now coming in at number nine is the gtx 660ti now I haven't really placed a lot of emphasis on the weighting system here this is just what I would like to pick up preferably in my stack in the top 10 scenario for someone else this might be number one it might be the perfect card you need at the said price so 660ti scores over 6,000 points a 3d mark firestrike very good card for 1080p gaming especially with its 2 gigabyte vram buffer it will play games like pub G on very low settings at 1080p most other games it'll do medium settings so it is a very solid card now I'll pay up to around about 55 dollars for one of these and most the time you're gonna get a car that runs pretty cool doesn't use a whole lot of power and they generally do come with a lot of aftermarket cooling solutions reference cards on 66 TTI's are actually quite rare because a lot of people when these came out they came out substantially later than the G six 70s and they all had customer coolers on them because they're already prepared from the GTX 670 s coming into number eight is the HD 7850 from AMD and also their bigger brother that's seventy eight seventy I put them in the same listing I'd pay $40 for a 78 50 and around about 50 bucks for a 78 70 70 80 70 will generally overclock higher it is a better Bend 7850 it also has more stream processors that are unable on the card you've got a two gigabyte VM buffer so like the 660ti you can expect entry-level 1080p gaming it'll even play pub G on very low settings at 1080p so it's a great card and also with the card ID the reason I put it up a little bit higher than the 60 TTI is because the vram buffer configuration is a little bit better in my opinion it gives even bandwidth to all the RAM modules as opposed to the 6s TTI I believe they have 1.5 gigabytes with 128-bit bandwidth available and then the other 500 megabytes get 64 bit very weird configuration on the 660ti from memory but it doesn't really creep up a whole lot especially if you're dropping memory intensive settings down like anti-aliasing which you should on cards like these but ultimately what you can expect out of the 78 50s around about 5200 3dmark firestrike points and the 7870 you'll get about 6000 now of course if you overclock them you'll get even better performance coming in at number seven now is the gtx 750ti I would pay around about 55 bucks for these they are generally a good option because they don't use a whole lot of power and you can fit them in generally any computer so you can go pick up a cheap om system like a Dell for 150 bucks with eight gigabytes of RAM and i5 2400 hard drive all that jazz whack in one of these and you've got yourself decent 1080p entry level gaming some games will struggle on this it's not as powerful as a 60 TTI or a 7870 for example but it will overclock extremely well it at least in my experience I was able to get a significant boost I think it was around about 20% performance out of my 750 Ti so if you can get one of these you can overclock it and you can expect to play very low settings pop G at 1080p not to mention it will practically fit into any case due to its low power consumption now coming into number six is the GTX 770 it's also very similar to the GTX 680 however some of the 770's do come in a 4 gigabyte configuration this will make them more attractive if you want to play games like pop G which for some reason are a little bit unoptimized they are very heavy on the vram buffer and so this card I'd pay up to around about $80 for one of these most the time you're gonna get the 2 gigabyte variant but they do go extremely hard you can expect close to around about 8000 3dmark five-stroke points so they are very good for 1080p gaming medium settings even high settings on some titles pub G you'll go from very low to low settings some of the settings you'll be able to even put on medium with this graphics card so it is a very nice choice however it is a little bit power-hungry so do make sure that you have a decent power supply to power one of these graphics cards so now we're going to quickly stop it here before we get on with number 5 and I just want to quickly say that you probably noticed a little bit of a trend happening with this list and that is that we're going from generally older cards to newer cards or more modern cards and the reason for this being the older the card the generally more likely it is to blow out on you if you're gaming for if you want to keep this for a couple of years for example because the older it is the more likely it is to have been used for longer so all these electronic components they all have a lifespan or a shelf life especially indicated by the warranties that's a general indicator so generally you would want to get a more modern card if you can however suffice to say of course there are some exceptions where the cards would have been rarely used and they would be like brand new still but generally statistics and trends they are your friends just like the yes-man band instead of being I said been kind of trying to keep the rhyme going anyway coming in to number five is the r7 370 these are generally very similar to a 78 50 they're a little bit more powerful out of the box however in my opinion they are more Lim on that overclocks i believe they are deliberately limited with their overclocking from the bias level however you can put a custom bias on these graphics cards but I generally find they're just a lower Bend r7 370 X and I've tried flashing one of these in the past even to a 370 X and it just did not work at all so I think this is when AMD got on to bidding their cards a lot better than they did back with the 78 50s in the 78 seventies but anyway performance you get around 5500 3d mark five stroke points with this card - you buy a VRAM buffer so it will play games at 1080p quite well on low and medium settings Pub G as well shouldn't be a problem for this card very low 1080p settings now coming in at number four is the HD 7970 and also the 7950 also known as the r9 280 or r9 280x so if you pick up the 290 series they're generally mourn you are and again as we speak about their statistics probably better off going for one of them but I'd pay up to around about $100 for one of these cards they do have a three gigabyte vram buffer so they are very attractive for 1080p high settings gaming even pub G for example will run on medium settings at 1080p on these graphics cards without a problem and that's not even before you overclock this card so if you overclock them you'll get even better performance they do overclock generally quite well especially if they've got aftermarket coolers on them but also the reason I mentioned 1080p pub gia light as pub G is probably the most popular game out there at the moment that's very hard to run of course fortnight's very popular but it's easier to run them pub G so when I say pub G very low settings 1080p for example for night or run of medium settings 1080p so that's generally why I'm using that as a reference game for these graphics cards but anyway eight thousand five hundred and forty 3d mark five strike points on the 7970 a little bit less for the 7950 so awesome performance if you can pick one of these things up now coming in at number three is the r9 290 r9 390 or r9 290x or r9 390x if you pick up any four of these variants they are very powerful cards to this stage you can expect around five strikes scores of around 12,000 and 13,000 for the r9 390 390 X you can also overclock them quite well but keep in mind they are very power hungry you will need a good power supply at least a good branded 500 watt power supply to begin with usually a lot of people couple these with 600 watt power supplies especially if they're overclocking their CPUs as well so this card will play 1080p games high and very high pub G won't be a problem you can even get away with entry level 1440p gaming on medium settings on most titles you've got a 4 gigabyte vram buffer there sometimes you've got an a gigabyte VN buffer as seen with the r9 390 but exceptional performance for the dollar just keep in mind they do run hot and try to avoid a reference card unless you're gonna put an aftermarket cooler on one of these but I would pay up to around about a hundred and fifty dollars in the current GPU climate for one of these cards of course the experience may be twenty dollars more hundred and seventy dollars but they will give you phenomenal performance coming in at number two is the gtx 970m the reason this didn't make number one is because it's more sought-after in my opinion every time i speak to someone who wants to build a pc and wants to go use they're always looking for a gtx 970 and so with that demand it's gonna make the prices go a little bit higher and of course they're gonna get sold out straightaway so if you're looking for a good grabs card you're generally not gonna find a 970 but if you do find one then you can generally expect to pay up to around about 150 dollars for one of these that's what I would pay you may be paying a little bit more in the current climate but of course we'll get it out of the way for that vram buffer we're gonna mention the 3.5 gigabyte vram buffer on this thing not the 4 gigabyte buffer and you can expect around about 12,000 3dmark firestrike points so very similar to the r9 290 and also r9 390 however the 970 will use substantially less power than those AMD variants not to mention they will overclock better on our what is a different story but on air these cards generally you get a lot more performance out of them so they are more sought-after card than the AMD r9 variants now coming in at number one is gonna be a little bit controversial but in my opinion is number one because they're readily available you can generally look around your local area or look around eBay and you'll find a GTX 780 or a GTX 780 Ti for sale now I've picked up a heap of these in the last six months picked up a GTX 780 for around about a hundred bucks gtx 780 t is for around about 120 that's what you can expect to pay now just like the i9 to 90s however the 780 t is will run quite hot you will need a really good power supply for the 780 Ti 780 is a little bit less so you get away with maybe a 450 what good power supply but a 780ti I'd go no less than a 500 what powers quite for one of these things especially if you want to overclock that CPU just like the uh nine to nine series now of course five strike 3d mark five strike points we're talking ten thousand five hundred on the 780 close to 12,000 so GTX 970 performance on the 780 Ti now they do have a three gigabyte vram buffer but all that three gigabytes is totally usable so it will make for a very good card at 1080p very high settings however 1440p you will be a little bit more limited than the 970 in the r9 290 doodle having one gigabyte less but nonetheless you will be able to play games absolutely fine with this graphics card I love it it comes in at number one and also I hope you guys enjoyed today's top 10 list and if you did then be sure to drop a comment comment section below if you've got other recommendations as well drop them in the comments always love reading your thoughts and opinions read all those comments even though I don't have time to reply to a lot of them I do read them all and also there are some other cards out there of course one interesting card is the r7 265 very underrated not many people know about it but if you can find one of these for 50 bucks for example go and get yourselves one so there's so many other boutique cards out there that will give you a good performance someone was even mentioning to me then you go get a Quadro card because a lot of those old Quadros aren't just they're not sought-after anyway I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye just keep in mind they are they do goals for a 780ti this is I love it I love it it's coming in I 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