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Advice? Stick with HD 2000 or get 5450?

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Hey guys,

I'm travelling back to Saudi tomorrow morning, staying there over the summer with my parents. The gaming sig rig I built is staying in Jordan. Parents' PC, I built that for them a few years ago, consisting of an i3-2100, 4GB DDR3, B75 motherboard and a hard drive from our older computer. HD2000 OC'd to 1300MHz, 1333MHz RAM lowered the latency to 7-7-7-21. Works great, does a great job for them, good fall-back desktop for me to use when I pop over for a visit.

The integrated HD 2000 works surprisingly well, given its nature, running some of my favourite games like Team Fortress 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic, at decent frame-rates. However, with the Steam Summer Sale coming up, I've been wanting to up the graphics performance just a little bit. I've endlessly looked and looked for any 5570 / 5670 / 6570 / 6670 cards, heck even the R7 240 or the GDDR5 variant of the GT 730, since those are quite decent cards for budget gaming, but to no avail... all I'm left with to choose is a 5450.

Would you advise I go with the 5450? Or should I stick with the HD2000? Are there any advantages the dedicated card has over an integrated solution, besides slightly better FPS? Better video or streaming capabilities or something like that? Anything at all? Is this card worth investing any money in?

Thanks
 
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