Wednesday, May 9, 2012

New Processor? Or New Video Card?

I'm going to upgrade one of these two in my computer. Here are my current specs.



http://i25.tinypic.com/2pph5sh.png



All I want right now out of this upgrade is to increase my gaming FPS. Especially in the game Guild Wars, which I have been playing a lot recently.



Please tell me which upgrade will benefit me the MOST(In terms of increasing gaming FPS) and any suggestions on which card, or processor I should purchase.



I run on a 24" HD monitor, that has a resolution of 1920 x 1200, so please keep that in mind if you suggest a video card.



Budget is about 200$, less would be better. Might go up to 300$



Thank you :)|||to be able to run games at that monitor you need a very good graphics card focus on these 4870, 4850, 4890, gtx 260, gts 250

from what i can tell you do have a pci express slot so you can perform the upgrade easy.

here are the good pci express cards . http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis…



These cards will also require about a 500 watt or greater power supply. keep in mind they are long cards about 10 inches long so make sure you have the space.



The processor is fine since modern games are videocard dependent. you have a socket 939 which is not upgraedable now since amd is usind am2 sockets|||I would go with a 9800GTX, it's a bit over your budget. But keep an eye out for a deal and you'll get it for less.|||wow your cpu sucks you can easily get a better one for around 80 or 90 dollars. and the rest of the money buy a video card



go to newegg.com|||you should upgrade the CPU. you graphics card is pretty good as it is, and can still play up to date games. you desperatly need a better cpu.

you can get a really good cpu for around 100$ on newegg.



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



heres a good one. its gonna be more then 2 times as fast as the one you already have. its 70$

its dual core 3GHz, its got a very large cache, and a good FSB.

the one you had before was single core 2.2 ghz

(ghz means cycles per second, but you can just call its calculations per second, there almost the same thing)





i dont recommend upgrading the graphics card. your motherboard only has regular PCI slots in it, and your graphics card is about as good as it gets with a PCI slot



if you do want to buy a new graphics card, IT HAS TO BE A REGULAR PCI CARD OR IT WILL NOT WORK. that means that the 9800 will not work in his computer. not pci express, and not pci express 16x which is what all the new card are made in.

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