GFX Card Upgrade

Hi

I am looking at upgrading the GFX card in this rig below. The new card needs to be able to play cod4 and 5 and race driver grid and at a push maybe Crysis.

System specs

MSI K9N NEO 3 MAINBOARD

GFX ASUS X1550

TRUST 580W PSU

160 GB SEGATE HDD

GEIL 2 GB RAM


I dont mind either ATI or Nvidia what do you thinks best at the moment? Also do you think I would be able to get a card for about £50 to play them games above?



Any suggestions welcome.


Thanks,

Chris44

It would have been good to know what speed your cpu are? This, from preventing picking a card that will be much bottlenecked by the cpu.

Hi Goranpaa


Sorry I thought I listed it. Its an AMD 4200+ 2.20GHz

No problems.

As said in one of your other posts. If oc'ing the cpu some 400 - 600Mhz? Then this is a really nice card. Cheap nowadays too.

50 bucks wont buy you any card even worth trying to play Crysis or FC 2 for ex. even at the lowest settings

This is a cheap as it gets with decent performance in the meansioned games at mostly mid quality settings.

http://www.ballicom.co.uk/not-shown-...0.p433889.html

But really, I think you should save up some and get this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=56&subcat=938

But that requires a cpu overclock as we discussed before.

Hardware Canucks have made some tests which involves the Radeon 4850 chip and can be read about here.

Discussed screen resolutions with Crysis involves: 1680x1050, 1920x1200 and 2560x1600.

What screen resolution are you aiming at chris44? (maybe 1024x768?)

Hi

Thanks for your replies,

I think I will go for the 9600GT. I currently have this PSU http://www.pless.co.uk/product.php?productid=2286;

Will it be up to running a 9600GT?

Thanks for the information about Crysis as well.

Cheers,

Chris44

As long as that psu have 26A on the +12V total / combined it's o.k.

Look at the specification label on the side of the psu.

This Palit 9600GT seems to come with a good cooler slapped on. And the price tag is'nt shabby either.

http://www.pless.co.uk/product.php?productid=5777;

With some overclocking it should be very close or as fast as a 9800GT.

If it's a high quality PSU and that it has a pci express cable on it, it should work with no problems! They usually are able to deliver 100% of the rated watt that you see. Otherwise it can be 75% or lower of the rated maximum power output.

According to this source the nVidia Geforce 9600GT draws 95W, so depending on what other hardware you have in there, you may or you may not get problems.

Can you give me a full list of all the hardware specifications?

Hiya

Thanks for your reply.


I made a mistake in listing the wrong PSU but its still made by trust and it is a higher wattage then the one I listed before: This is the atucal one that is inside the PC at the moment that I am looking at upgrading the GFX Card on:

http://www.trust.com/products/product.aspx?artnr=14888


Specs:

MSI K9N NEO V3

AUS X1550 GFX CARD

GEIL ULTRA 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM

SEAGATE 160GB SATA HDD ST3160827AS

AMD 4200+ 2.20GHZ CPU

LG GH22NS40 SATA OPTICAL DRIVE

ASUS WL-138g V2 WIRELESS CARD

Hope this helps.


Edit- How much would you say I would get for my current Asus X1550 GFX Card on Ebay?


I have found the Palit 9600GT on Ebay it is a used one though

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Palit-nVidia-G...d=p3286.c0.m14

Let me know if you need anymore information.

Cheers,

I would say that the powersupply that you have listed is more than enough, at least with the hardware that you have listed. 570W should be enough even if it's not a high quality PSU.

If the noise levels is something that you care about, then it's always good to have a powersupply which have a pretty high wattage, it helps keep the noise down.

Looking at the Radeon X1550 I found in U.K. hardware shops it's about 23 to 25£ new. So maybe 8 - 10£?

Never buy video cards and especially used ones on E Bay! You dont know what exsperiments it may have gone thru?

And I would be quite surpriced if that 570W psu could'nt produce at least 26A On the +12V? But check the spec label on it anyways.