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Enough power?

Gwyn

Gwyn

Gwyn

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Hi guys
My mate wants to upgrade his graphics power. Is his psu enough power if he upgrades to a 4850 and will the rest of his system hold it back from a big performance gain?

The system:
DFI Lanparty ultra-D
Athlon64 3500 @ 2.2
1 gig of PC3200
HIS X1900XT
Tagan 480 PSU

He wants to play Dirt and Call of Duty 4 at 1440/900

Cheers
 
PSU power will be fine. I would recommend another 1GB of memory (i.e. another 1GB stick or replace existing 512s for 2 x 1GBs) and overclock the CPU a bit.
 
Thanks for you reply. with these changes will it play these games well?
Also is this the best card to go for for under £120?
 
Yep it is the best price/performance card out. If he had the funds to go to a 4870 then it would be even better, but I would suggest to keep to the one you picked out and spend a bit on the rest of the system.

The extra mem will keep things running smoothly in the background, whilst the cpu + gfx can get on with doing their job :)
 
I agree the power supply should be fine as long as he hasn't got too many hard drives. The 4850 is a good buy, and an increase in ram up to 2Gb or even 4Gb would help quite a lot in games as well as other applications.
 
Speed said:
I agree the power supply should be fine as long as he hasn't got too many hard drives. The 4850 is a good buy, and an increase in ram up to 2Gb or even 4Gb would help quite a lot in games as well as other applications.
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4GB would be costly, 2gb would be fine.
 
Isn't that an AGP system ? is it nforce 3 or 4 ? the 4 has pci express
 
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mda96bjh said:
I dont think i'd be happy with a 480w PSU....that Tagan is pretty old now....
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But it's a great psu. The same one ran a q6600 (oc), 4gb ram, 4870 (oc), d5 laing pump, 4 hard drives, 7 120mm fans, 2 optical drives, floppy, soundblaster, wireless card no problem.

Adding a bluray writer to my system was one step too far though :(
 
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