I would not get a Nvidia Geforce 610. I have one if you want it. It is half (almost exactly) of my old GT440 card, that means a 64-bit data transfer path instead of 128 bit or more for the new ones (or even my old GT440) and a GPU that is the same speed as my old GT 440 card. Oh, it works, but I play a couple of games (not needing a speed demon card) and I have to lower the resolution of the game to get up the frame rate, and more so than with my old GT440 which was getting slow. I now have a GTX 650 Ti Nvidia Geforce card, and I must say I never hear the fan in it (although like anything it will have to be cleaned - compressed air can whatever).
Depends on what resolution you will be using perhaps in the future, I am at 1920 x 1080 but my desktop is still at 1680 x 1050. I find that is easier to see, and while I sit even further away while recording, one can get used to it still being smaller and if having to lower the resolution if you want to watch Sonar or recording, which usually does not happen because of playing the composition (music.)
It's a Kepler GPU vs. the old more wattage taking Fermi GPU. That does not mean unless you get up there with Nvidia that it is better (higher model numbers) it just means that it takes less power than the old cards did.
But anyway I had to put in a bigger power supply (more wattage) anyway with the new one (as well as the old graphics card on my old computer) to run the graphics card.
Usually only the lower end graphics cards like the 610 (and not really the 620 or 630) will run with the common usual power supply of computers - 300 watts. Not enough for a higher powered graphics card.
You can compare charts somewhere on the Internet, where my new graphics card is slower than an old 460 or going up a 560 graphics card. But it is fast enough.
Maybe see charts at:
http://www.guru3d.comor wherever like at :
http://www.geforce.comIf interested in a Nvidia card even third party or so manufacturer.
post edited by spacealf - 2013/12/03 01:13:27