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Originally posted by saltynay
dual cards are rubbish better to spend the money on one big card. Please post your motherboard so that we can see what connections there are??? 4gb of ram is a waste you will never use that much I'm thinking of upgrading to 3gb but thats only because I play graphics intensive games on the highest settings and use autocad occasionally. The 7900gt should easily get you that many fps. Your Ram bus speed is abit slow and the pentium 4 is ok for now but it is a bit slow check here http://tomshardware.co.uk/cpu/charts.html |
Ok thanks for the suggestion! But how do I go about finding what mother board I have, this is why I wished I had built my own (nVidia nForce seems to be nice)
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Originally posted by talldude123
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First, make sure that everything you want is compatible. I know that Dell uses propriatery parts, so you're stuck there.
First thing you would want to do is upgrade the PSU, then the graphics card, then the memory.
The memory you have now is good, but you will want a better graphics card, and probably a new power supply. I believe Dell's have 300W stock PSU's, you will want 450 minimum. |
Well, I don't really want to mess with my Power supply, and I know I need a better graphics card. What I'd probably do is get a new one and then sell the one in my machine (the ATI) to my friend who has an Intel card and struggles to play CS:S, for like 50 bucks. But anyways thanks!
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Originally posted by Ethereal_Dragon
Your RAM is fine, but you will want to get a new video card.... I wouldn't go from an x600 to a 7300 though..... they are both entry level cards (I believe)... possibly low mid-range.
Does that DELL use AGP or PCI express interface for the video card?
Here are 2 PCI express cards...
HIS ATi X1950 PRO
Foxconn GeForce 7900GS |
Ok, I'd rather go with a nVidia card because I had a PNY GeForce 5500 128 MB in my dad's computer before I moved out and it did great with most source games. My current card is in a PCIe port. When I hit F2 on startup it says I have 2 empty PCI slots, not sure how many empty PCIe slots I have though...