Big Box is starting to lag more and more What graphics card should I have so I dont have to deal with that anymore?

[sirgubster9]

Have an i7 im getting from work and I thought I would put a cheap graphics card in there and then be all set.  I have bigbox on another computer and it starting to lag more and more even though I simplified it as much as possible.  Whats graphics card should I put in there? preferably cheap, preferably one i can find, and preferably nvidia so it works well with the emulators.  help , thanks.  

[Retro808]

RAM would be a bit more beneficial to BigBox. The type of software BB is, it loads a lot into your memory. So the more RAM the better. For example I have 2 Ryzen builds with 16GB of RAM and use only the integrated graphics. BB runs pretty much lag free. 

[sirgubster9]

1 minute ago, Retro808 said:

RAM would be a bit more beneficial to BigBox. The type of software BB is, it loads a lot into your memory. So the more RAM the better. For example I have 2 Ryzen builds with 16GB of RAM and use only the integrated graphics. BB runs pretty much lag free. 

Ohhhhh that makes a ton of sense. I'm surprised you are just using an integrated graphics card, you don't find that you need a graphics card for some of the newer games... N64, dolphin, and up? 

[sirgubster9]

I'm torn right now if I should put like a gt1030 into my i7 windows 7 setup or should I just leave it as is?