Cheapy GFX upgrade

[Jimfowler82]

Hi guys,

Guess you seen this post many times before . Basically i have an ATI 3650 saphire gfx card with 512mb of ram. Im looking to play Battlefield bad company 2 with a bit more than 10-20FPS, so i need to upgrade my graphics card .

I got an old school AMD athlon 6400+ dual core CPU which seems ok for now, i know its not cutting edge, but im on a tight budget and can only afford one upgrade.

I was wondering if http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-267-SP would be a big upgrade for me the 6570 with 1gb of ram. Or should i just save up for another 6 months and wait . Ive not been up to date with graphics card since Nvidia geForce stuff

Thanks in advance Jim

 

[easyrider]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-185-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1515

this for 18 quid more

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[Jimfowler82]

Looking good, Will it work on a 400watt PSU?

 

[easyrider]

Looking good, Will it work on a 400watt PSU?

should do what make is the psu?

 

[Jimfowler82]

Its just a casecom one came with the case, Just checked it & its only 350watt, Was meant to be 400Watt.

 

[easyrider]

Its not ideal but will probably be fine. I would never recommend using a generic PSU but in this instance try and see ...

How many Hardrives etc...

whats the full spec of you machine?

 

[Jimfowler82]

GA-MA69VM-S2 motherboard, AMD athlon 6400+, 1 IDE dvd RW, 1 Sata HDD, 4GB of crucial DDR2.

Whats the worst that can happen with a low powered PSU? Just the PSU breaks? If so i can live with that

 

[easyrider]

should be fine its not like you have 6 hdd and its heavily overclocked!

 

[Jimfowler82]

Nothing overclocked, I learnt my lessons in the past on that one Thanks for your replies its been very helpful

 

[easyrider]

No worries mate be prepared to be blown away by the speed increase

 

[synixx]

The 6400 is 125w iirc so I would look at getting a better supply when you have the money to do so.

 

[seandog]

Whats the worst that can happen with a low powered PSU? Just the PSU breaks? If so i can live with that

Not to be a harbinger of doom, but cheaper and older PSU's dont have the protection that newer/dearer ones do, if your system draws more power than it can cope with or even if it just decides its had enough and goes POP it can not only destroy the power supply but could take some of your components with it!

 

[Jimfowler82]

I see. I suppose the OcUK PSU's @ 550w are cheap enough anyways

 

[seandog]

try this one instead more power for £1 less and lepa are enermax house brand so solid build quality with them

 

[Jimfowler82]

Sorry another question, What is a 6 pin pci-e connector, I mean will the card come with a connector for it, Like is it a connector to Molex or something. Thanks again Jim )

 

[seandog]

6 pin pci-e connectors are the connectors on the PSU that connect to the GPU to power it, all new GPU require 2 of these to power your cards

 

[easyrider]

Sorry another question, What is a 6 pin pci-e connector, I mean will the card come with a connector for it, Like is it a connector to Molex or something. Thanks again Jim )

The card will come with an adaptor. Molex to PCI-e

 

[easyrider]

6 pin pci-e connectors are the connectors on the PSU that connect to the GPU to power it, all new GPU require 2 of these to power your cards

Not all New GPU's need two to power them. The 57700 needs just one.

 

[Jimfowler82]

Nice one thanks again gunna buy one later while my Girlfriend is away lol

 

[easyrider]

This one is fine

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-059-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084