Rob_GT4

Hello good people,

Listen i'm not guna lie, I really don't know a huge amount about computers.. I currently have an old school (a way of making an old computer sound cool right?) Athlon 1600 xp with a Geforce Ti something or other which was the bees knees in 1948!...

But..

I perhaps naively went and bought a new computer the other day that I thought looked ideal for just like some budget gaming, but i'm a bit worried now it's come to buying a graphics card for it...

this is the spec which i'm guna copy and paste to make sure it's right, and i'd like to know what you experts think is the best graphics card I could run on it.... i've had my eye on a radeon 4870 512mb but am I being unrealistic?







Case: Galaxy3 ATX Case with 450w PSU 4 Bay with Front Audio and USB
Dimensions: Length - 480mm, Width - 200mm, Height - 410mm
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core E6300 2.8ghz 1066Mhz 2mb Cache SKT775
Processor Interface : SKT 775
CPU Cooler : Intel Retail Boxed
Memory: Major Brand 2gb DDR2 800 PC6400 CL6.0 Memory Module
Hard Drive: Branded 250gb Sata 7200rpm 8mb Cache HDD
Graphics Card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 Max. shared memory: 384MB
Motherboard: Asrock G31M-GS 1333fsb Intel G31 Chipset S/V/L M-ATX SKT775
Max Memory Support: 8gb DDR2 800
Motherboard Expansion Slots: 1x PCI-E 16x, 1x PCI-E 1x, 2x 32-bit PCI
Network Card: 10/100/1000 Realtek RTL8111DL
Audio: 5.1 CH Windows Vista Premium Level HD Audio (Realtek ALC662 Audio Codec)
Optical Drive: 20x Lightscribe DVD Writer with Buffer Underrun Protection
Power Supply: Branded 450w 24Pin Power Supply Unit



Thanks in advance for reading any help appreciated

firestormcomputers

I wouldn't run a 4870 in there, the PSU may or may not run it.

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Lord Xeb

Get a better PSU, and you can have it. I suggest at least a 500W. Now you can do a 4770 if you can find one or I think even a 5770 (Do not count me on this). But for now, try and find yourself a nice 8600GT or something. That will do you good.

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skitzogreg

First of all, welcome! I'd recommend a couple of things about your budget gaming build. First, go with a larger HD. You're going to want it, since newer games (+downloadable content) can go larger than 10GB per install. That's not typical, but it probably will be soon. You need a different power supply. You can find a Rosewill on Newegg for cheap, and I'd recommend a 600w+. This gives you headroom in the future to overclock your CPU and Video Card. The 4870 is a great budget card and you might be able to find one for cheap on the forums.

fuloran1

You could run a 4870, your ram and cpu will be your bottleneck tho. Maybe think about a 9800gtx. Depending how much you paid tho, maybe even think about returning it and building your own. Its actually pretty easy and you can make a better rig than that for 600 or so...if you dont mind going AMD.

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Lord Xeb

Dude, a 500W would be plenty.



PS: I got an old as dirt X1600 PRO sitting here if you want it 15 shipped. That will be WAY better than your current graphics card.

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_02

He could probably even get away with less than 500w unless he was planning xfire or sli.

skitzogreg

No doubt. They just have a bunch of great deals on the Rosewill 600+'s. I just gave a heads up for some OC headroom.

Rewindlabs

You could have done a lot better on the part choices there if you built it yourself...really any money you might have saved or money you spent on not wasting your on labor on the build just became somewhat null since you are going to have to replace the PSU if you want a 4870 range GPU or higher and you are going to be stuck with a hard to sell sub par PSU

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firestormcomputers

G31 Xfire/SLI, I think not .

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