Minimum upgrade to run a Radeon 6770

PaulMTC · 9 Mar 2012 at 00:22

Hi,

I have bought an XTX Radeon 6770 as an upgrade for my current pc.

I installed it but there is no signal going to the monitor (previous post on this in graphics card forum suggests that the motherboard may be too old to run it).

I'm looking for a minimum (cheapest!) upgrade of motherboard and processor (if upgrade to processor is necessary) to allow me to run the Radeon 6770.

My spec is:

motherboard: MSI P31 Neo2-FR Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 (MB-095-MS) ..... [ms-7392]
processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 Socket 775 2.2GHz 800FSB
psu: ocz 500w

Thanks.

Paul

stulid · 9 Mar 2012 at 00:29

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte H61M-S2PV Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £41.99
1 x Intel Celeron G530 2.40GHz Socket LGA 1155 Processor - Retail £31.19
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £22.99
Total : £106.67 (includes shipping : £8.75).

PaulMTC · 9 Mar 2012 at 00:37

wow - thanks a lot for the quick reply stulid!

is the celeron better overall than my current e2200 - or will i be sacrificing anything (because it's a celeron).

edit: also - will my current cpu cooler still be ok?

cheers,

paul.

stulid · 9 Mar 2012 at 00:39

Well I cant find a CPU comparison at my usual source.

A bit more money gets - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-384-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=2037

E2200 vs Pentium G620 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/67?vs=406 - some of the results are "lower is better"

PaulMTC · 9 Mar 2012 at 00:46

that's brilliant thanks stulid.

PaulMTC · 9 Mar 2012 at 00:48

stulid said:
Well I cant find a CPU comparison at my usual source.

A bit more money gets - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-384-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=2037

E2200 vs Pentium G620 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/67?vs=406 - some of the results are "lower is better"

does the processor come with cooler included?

cheers,

paul.

stulid · 9 Mar 2012 at 00:51

PaulMTC said:
does the processor come with cooler included?

cheers,

paul.

It does.

PaulMTC · 9 Dec 2012 at 13:37

hi,

was wondering if this was still my best option (just getting around to buying this now!) .....

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte H61M-S2PV Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £46.99
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £41.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
Total : £123.47 (includes shipping : £8.75).

cheers,

paul.

reiyushin · 9 Dec 2012 at 13:56

I think it is, yea

you'd get a better response in general hardware, they like "spec me" threads