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Scionrellik

My budget is $100. I want to get some model of Nvidia Geforce GPUs. I want to know if it's better to buy a new one or if buying a refurbished one will be fine. Also I would like to know what you all would suggest. Thank you for your time.
Edit 1: After initial responses, some people have said to save more money rather than buying now. I am not going to consider that to be an option. So I guess the most important thing I need to know is whether or not buying a refurbished gpu is my best option. It would be much appreciated if someone were to give me more detailed information regarding refurbished computer parts. Thank you for your time.
Edit 2: Something else that would be nice to know is what the hell are CUDA cores? Thank you for your time.

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GamerdaXtremz

What GPU you will buy, and what Resolution, setting, games, you will play?
And what's your PC specs?

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Scionrellik
  1. I don't know what to buy yet.
  2. 1920x1080 with the highest settings I can manage.
  3. My cpu is an AMD FX 6300 6 core, 16 gb of RAM, I'm running Windows 8.1, and my current gpu that I will be replacing is a Nvidia GT 630. I built this pc myself. it was my first time and I think I underspent on my gpu which is why I'm replacing it.
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StraussVanDor

You will not make much of an upgrade with $100, in my opinion. As most people already stated, you should save for a better VGA mostly because you got a nice CPU and good amount of RAM. It's unfortunate you aren't considering this.

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TekNicTerror

get the cheapest one you can find

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GamerdaXtremz

lol yeah waste your money on a cheappie card to play pac-man at 15 fps

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RagingMan

New one, always. If you want an Nvidia GPU at that price point get a GTX 750, you should be able to find one, the AMD R7 260x is also good at that price point and might me slightly cheaper.

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Drumoff

Recently i bought this GPU, and it was like 120$.
GTX650 fits into 100$

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RanchMeAmadeus

Please, don't waste your money on a $100 GPU. I suggest keeping that money and save some more so you can buy a real GPU for gaming.

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Geosmin

^ this unless you want to increase fps 10%.

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Canaan428

Basically this. I would wait until you can get a GTX 970.

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himohillo

Save your money until you can afford better than low tier cards.

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GamerdaXtremz

+1

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himohillo

If you don't want to save your money, used HD 7950 goes for ~$100. People have started to sell their AMD cards when the crypto mining rush has gone down.

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atb85

I'll suggest waiting for the GTX960 to come out. Then trying to get one the cards that people will be replacing with it. I'm guessing a good amount of 2nd-hand GTX660s, GTX670s, GTX760s, HD7870s, HD7950s and R9 270s will be available.
If you really must get a lowish-budget NVidia right now, I'd say go for a GTX750Ti.

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mewdego

just go to:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php

list them by price and look for the highest passmark (benchmark) in your price range.

good luck

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