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http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeon-HD3850-512MB-Graphics/dp/B00145CQUC/ref=cm_cmu_pg__header
Bidding ended on it at $69.25, not bad at all. And free shipping:Ya that was me I put my max at $70 and with 15 seconds left, some guy tried to outbid me but his max was at only $68.25 I ordered that 460watt power supply I was looking at too. I'm on vacation right now, so it'll all be waiting for me to put together when I get back. When I eventually get a better computer, I can sell that graphics card for twice what I paid for it and get all my money back plus some.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sapphire-Technology-ATI-Radeon-HD-3850-11124-00-20R-/160838804679?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item2572bd64c7#ht_500wt_922
Was that you who won? What was your max you were willing to pay?
It would play just about all I want it to except for BF3. But this is just plan B. first im going to see If I can get that card for cheap on eBay. 14 hours left and still only one bid.
If that is the route you WANT to go, then do it. I personally would not want to get the new motherboard and processor, but if you don't mind the work, and have the money to spend, then I don't see why not. As long as all that stuff is compatible with each other and plays the games you want to play, have at it. Let us know how it goes, or if you need any more help.
Chances are because of your low power eating CPU, you "might" be ok with what you have with your choice of GPU. But if it was me I would go with the new psu to be safe. Using it for later, maybe, I say that because up to date systems with 4 or larger core CPUs and power hungry video cards chances are even this new psu wouldn't cut it. You would need at least 800 watts to get a new system going.Well the GPU has its own fan, plus there's a rear fan in my case for the processor, and the fan on the PSU obviously. So I think it should be nice and cool in there. I might as well just get the new PSU for only thirty bucks. Because that HIS 4670 Is becoming really hard to find, and really expensive, I'm going to go with the sapphire one which recommends a 500watt psu. 460 should be fine.
Risk in low power... No start of the box, video artifacts, the psu could shut down and or burn out.
Plugs on the new unit... You will be fine. Even if you run out of flat plugs, they have jumpers/pigtails that you can buy to make them go farther.
One last thing, if the box doesn't have a rear fan, buy the biggest one that will fit to cool the box off because of the new GPU.
The PSU you posted, should work... The 4 extra pins (the +4 talked about) for the MB on the new PSU will disconnect from that MB plug (just move them aside, don't use them for anything)...Oh ok thanks. The only other potential problem I see is that on my current psu, there are five of those peripheral plug things, although only two of them are being used for my DVD drives. So I guess three is fine, but I wouldn't have any more after that since the graphics card will take up the third one. It's also got a lot of plugs I don't need, like all those SATA plugs (I only need one for my hard drive), and the pci-e plug that I don't need at all. But I guess I can just use this power supply for whatever my next computer will be.
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I'm not sure, I've never tried that, but somebody else can probably help you if you change your mind.I'll see if I can't hunt down that 4670 I was going to buy, theres a few people selling one on eBay for half price, but I don't want to get in a bidding war and end up paying more.
Here is an old graphics card that I don't use anymore. I can put it back in my computer and test to make sure it works, but from what I remember it ran BF2 just fine. If you check out the specs and ratings, it is not as good as this card. So I guess it just comes down to which games you want to play and how much money you have to spend. Also, if you want the card I have, you'll have to wait about 3 weeks until I'm back home.
How is your search on power supplies going?
Im with misfit , loaded is a shit man !Well this could go two ways. Being the shit is a good thing, but being a shit is a bad thing, and knowing Ricardo's english skills, the world may never know.
Forward this PM to me also.He lives like an hour away from me, don't give him my address.
I actually think I have an old AGP graphics card I can send you if you want. As long as you are willing to pay the cost of shipping and daring enough to PM me your address (or someone else's you can get it at). That can save you some more money to put towards a power supply, RAM, and/or hard drive. Let me know and I'll see if I can find it...That'd be awesome, so long as it'd be enough of an upgrade to warrant you taking the time to ship it haha.
Are you going to get the used one for $95? It's one of the best AGP cards still available. Your computer won't be great, but it'll help you play games through college, and then you can pwn all of us a get a new computer after college.I was going to get the used one until I noticed this:
I have a Pentium D 3.0ghz dual core with Nvidia 8600GT (PCI-e). You can not play BF BC2 or anything newer. BF1942 used to lag on Berlin a lot. Anything older than 2006 runs fine. Anything newer gets owned.This computer has a pentium 4 2.8GHz single core, with an intel 82865G Graphics Controller, worse specs than yours and I never lagged on Berlin. And that was with no fog, while running hacks, ventrilo, xfire, anti-virus, and usually an internet browser too. Plus there are YouTube videos of people using this graphics card playing midrange games like I mentioned before.
Honestly, you are wasting so much money trying to fix/upgrade a super old computer. You will never be able to play BF3 on that or any game right now. AGP technology is so old and useless now that you won't see updated drivers today, and drivers make a huge difference in the FPS of your games. Chances are the CPU is probably a Pentium D or similar, which will get owned by many games/softwares of today. If your harddrive is IDE and not SATA, that's another thing slowing down your computer.The RAM I put in isn't a different speed, just different capacities. Although maybe that's what you mean. If need be, then I can just buy two more 1GB sticks of ram for another thirty bucks. And the processor is a Pentium 4 2.8GHz processor. That's not that bad is it? Its more GHz than my laptop... I really haven't spent any money. just thirty on the RAM, and ten on a wireless adapter. The only big money i'll spend on this thing is the graphics card for $100. I've read like 100+ reviews on it, and have heard lots of people say they have almost the exact same rig as me, same processor and everything, and they were able to play games like Left for Dead 2, Assassin's Creed, and GTA IV. In the long run, yeah i'll get a new computer but if i can use this one to play low to mid range games with a hundred dollar graphics card then why not? I'm doing this to learn more about computers too, and so far i've learned a lot.
If you put RAM of two different speeds in your pc, the computer will make the faster RAM run at the slower speed because the slower one can't run any faster.
Save up some money and you can buy a cheap computer around $500-600 that will give you a better life. Seriously, do not spend any money upgrading this. You will regret it.