Please help me replace my graphics card

Posted by _GromGery_@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 11 comments

My PC specs:

A8-6600K – CPU

ASUS A78-A – motherboard

AMD Radeon HD 5750 – graphics card

And two 8GB sticks (16GB total) of DDR3 1600MHz RAM (if I'm not mistaken, but I think it's 1600MHz and the memory modules are identical)

Basically, I'm tired of being stuck with a graphics card that has only 1 GB of VRAM. It's not going to be enough by 2026. What graphics card should I replace it with? I'm thinking about the GT 1030 2GB DDR5 since it's simply the cheapest graphics card right now, both on the second-hand market and in stores

I know my PC is crap, but I don’t need to upgrade it. I just started playing Genshin Impact and GTA 5 recently, and I feel like I’m running out of memory. In GTA 5, I can clearly see that I don’t have enough memory even on the lowest graphics settings, but in Genshin, the game just freezes up completely, and I have to restart it if I go into the menu or change my party, etc.

Would a GT 1030 2GB work fine here? Or is there something better? I’m also worried that my motherboard might not be compatible—I don’t know much about PCs. I’ve also been looking at the 1050, but they’re too expensive. I think I found a cheap 1650 on the second-hand market, but I’m worried about the power consumption.

My power supply is terrible, and my CPU and GPU already use a lot of watts, so I’d like a graphics card that uses very little power.