Quote from: drrussellshane on June 13, 2012, 04:46:34 PM

I've been to a couple stores, and the "best" graphics cards based on my limited knowledge appear to be:

- AMD HD 7450
- AMD HD 6530D
- AMD HD 6410D

Out of those three meager options, which would be the best for mining? Would any of them work?

Out of the three above, I believe the only dedicated graphics card is the 7450. The other two are generally come packaged as AMD Accelerated Processing Units. This is where the CPU and the GPU are bundled into one chip. Expect sub 100MHash/s from the 6410D/6530D. The advantage to an APU, however, could be that your motherboard has a free PCIe slot. Find out if the motherboard has a PCIe 3.0 (or 2.0) x16 slot on it. If it does, then as other posters have said, you can shop for a card later, and not feel under the gun to get it now.

If either of the APU machines don't have a PCIe x16 slot on the motherboard, go for the 7450, and upgrade the card later. You should also expect the most performance from the 7450.

Were you not fortunate enough to be within the area of a http://www.microcenter.com/ brick and mortar store?

Good luck; let us know what you decide to do!

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