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Budget PCIe x16 for old Athlon II x4
just rehabbing an old system retired from work duties and thought I would see what it can do.
this is a HP Pavilion p6710fthat has 1 PCI Express x16 slot for graphics card. I will only do light gaming at best, but would like a graphics card I can find on Ebay or elsewhere that has these qualities:
- Stable, durable
- Has HDMI and DVI interface
- Displays text clearly - like razor sharp without a lot of tweaking
- Does multimedia well without a lot of heat - mainly movies, youtube vids, documentaries, at 1920x1080, again hopefully without a lot of work having to fine tune colors, frame speed drag, contrast
It is running win7 Home Premium x64
The browsers I currently like are Brave and Firefox, neither of which is particularly efficient with videos. IE11 on Windows 10 is the most efficient I've seen for rich content video but sadly doa now. [I sorta like Opera, but it will hang or go otherwise bonkers when doing youtube for awhile - overheat the system yikes]
Not too much to ask is it?
what do you suggest?
the system specs are here:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02628226