best graphics card I can get for $200


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Don't have much time to look myself right now... but for a $200 budget, what is the best graphics card I can get that will fit this system specs?

 

* Corsair CS Series 450 Watt ATX Modular CS450M

* Intel Z77 Chipset MSI board Z77A-GD65 which has Generation 3 PCI express slots 2 at 16x and 1 gen 2 slot at 4x

 

this is for someone who wants to play cities skyline relatively good, right now the system is only using the integrated Intel graphics, so obviously it needs an upgrade for cities....

 

what do you guys think?

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You'll be looking at either a GTX 960 or a R9 285 at that price.
Couple of possibles:
 
Best way to decide between them is find some reviews of the cards and then benchmarks from your favourite games, some games and engines are coded better for different cards, so if your 2 or 3 favourite games all benchmark better with one than the other then their is your answer.
 
Though 450W PSU might be getting a little on the low side depending on the rest of your system specs and devices. try: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp to do some calculations, but you might want to think about an upgrade there if needs be probably to a 600W, but this does all depends on everything else you have in your PC and PSU age.
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Thanks, like I said this isn't for me, I'm giving my last gen system to someone else and they wanted to play cities without spending a ton of money to upgrade multiple components... it has an i5 3570K CPU in it, so that shouldn't be an issue, 8GB of RAM, only thing off was I pulled the graphics card out for my new system... so it only had the on CPU intel graphics left. but hey for $200 to throw a gfx card in, it's a heck of a deal...

 

wish I would of put in the same PSU I have now, it's a Kingwin LPZ-550, it's 550 watts when falling under 80+Platinum, but it says it's capable up to 660 Watts but not at 80+ Platinum specs *lol* nice to have a "cushion" if you need it

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