DSUB 9?? Help!!

ByMRK1 · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:31

I brought a new motherboard and it doesnt have a VGA/DVI slot. It only has a D-SUB 9 slot? I need to connect it to my VGA monitor!
Motherboard: MSI 870-c45

stulid · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:35

That VGA slot isnt even that

its a serial port.

Bad luck you need a graphic card.

ByMRK1 · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:39

I remember you dude! Like long ago, my old account was 'nVuzion' and I said I blew up my PC. I fixed it now!

And yeah, Ive improved with pcs dramatically, anywho, Im using an old 32mb graphics adapter now.

stulid · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:41

So you got a old pci graphics card with the old Dsub/VGA output?

Whats the monitor got as connections?

ByMRK1 · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:44

VGA Cable. Working fine just I want to play games and stuff. Check my other post?

stulid · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:46

Oh so you want to upgrade the graphics card to something with some poke?

Budget?

What PSU do you have? make and model?

And the monitor has a VGA/Dsub only input?

ByMRK1 · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:49

Yeah, only those two. Erm budget £400 - £669 (max - not likely)
I was thinking gtx 570 + Antec true power new 650w?
For Call of duty 4 - Max - 250fps constant?

stulid · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:51

Well a GTX570 and that PSU is what I would have suggested.

What CPU do you have?

Call of duty4 - http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_570/8.html

Surveyor · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:51

ByMRK1 said:
Yeah, only those two. Erm budget £400 - £669 (max - not likely)
I was thinking gtx 570 + Antec true power new 650w?
For Call of duty 4 - Max - 250fps constant?

What monitor are you using that can display 250FPS?

ByMRK1 · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:54

Stulin: AMD Athlon II X3 425 - Im able to unlock it to an AMD Phenom II X4 B25 (But it freezes after a while, Stock cooling and a extra value 450w psu!

)

Surveyor: I know mines a 60Hz monitor but for CoD4 You need 250FPS to do certain jumps and such..

stulid · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:56

ByMRK1 said:
Stulin: AMD Athlon II X3 425 - Im able to unlock it to an AMD Phenom II X4 B25 (But it freezes after a while, Stock cooling and a extra value 450w psu! )

Surveyor: I know mines a 60Hz monitor but for CoD4 You need 250FPS to do certain jumps and such..

Not a bad CPU then, things are looking up

Well as you can see from my link, a GTX570 can do over 250fps at low'ish resolution but backed up with a stronger CPU.

You have 4GB of RAM?

ByMRK1 · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:57

Link please mate

And do you have an idea of why the pc freezes after I unlock my CPU?
Also on my motherboard there is two overclocking switches, when I turn em on the pc doesnt show anything on monitor, only after i turn it off it does.

stulid · 31 Jul 2011 at 00:58

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_570/8.html

Test system

Test System - VGA Rev. 12
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.8 GHz
(Bloomfield, 8192 KB Cache)
Motherboard: Gigabyte X58 Extreme
Intel X58 & ICH10R
Memory: 3x 2048 MB Mushkin Redline XP3-12800 DDR3
@ 1520 MHz 8-7-7-16
Harddisk: WD Caviar Black 6401AALS 640 GB
Power Supply: akasa 1200W
Software: Windows 7 64-bit

As for the unlocking problem, could be as simple as the disabled core actually being faulty so didnt make the quad core grade and was instead given tri-core status from AMD and sold as such. Core unlocking is not guaranteed at all.

ByMRK1 · 31 Jul 2011 at 01:02

Awesome!

But will I notice a difference with NoAA and 0xAF??

stulid · 31 Jul 2011 at 02:03

No AA and No AF means the graphics card can take it easier, see how you get on, but a GTX570 should have no issues with the settings cranked up.