What's the best graphics card that i can get with i5-2550k?

[Jhinny Sins]

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[mali.4udo.139]

970 gtx.
And maybe your cpu can realise all potential of 1070, but I dont't test this combination yet.

[_I_]

best you can afford
*better gpu often means you need a better power supply
a quality 550+w for any single nvidia gpu, or 650+w for any single amd gpu

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html

[hawkeye]

A 1070 would be a good card, but a 1080 would be the best card that you could put in the pc.

I have an i7-2600 and it can push an overclocked gtx970 to 100% usage on 60% cpu usage. The two cpu's (i7 and i5) have the same single thread rating, the i7 is 25% faster multi-threaded. I'm thinking of getting a 1080 so I can run modded graphics. This is at 1080p resolution.

If your existing power supply is old, you may need a better one regardless of the power rating. I had a bronze 750W but the 12V feed wasn't smooth enough for the gtx970.

[banzaigtv]

I would say a GTX 970. It's hard for a modern i5, let alone an older one, to keep up with a GTX 980 or above. If you had an i7-2600k, though, a GTX 1080 should not be much of a problem at all.

[Jhinny Sins]

Originally posted by banzaigtv:

I would say a GTX 970. It's hard for a modern i5, let alone an older one, to keep up with a GTX 980 or above. If you had an i7-2600k, though, a GTX 1080 should not be much of a problem at all.

MSI GTX 960 4GB Gaming would be good?

[_I_]

2500k can be overclocked in a p97/z board and with a good cooler

will not hold back gtx 970 or higher gpus

[DarkStarClassic]

RX 480 8GB 275$ custom OC .

[SundownKid]

You wil be able to run literally anything on the market if the CPU is overclocked

An i5-2500k overclocked is equivalent to an i5-6500 which is a modern skylake