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New Card Help Sub £200 with PSU?

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Morning,

Would appreciate some advice on a new graphics card please as I am now way behind the times!

This is the system I currently have (all bought from here)

Belinea 2225S1W 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) -
Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
Corsair 2GB DDR2 Value Select PC2-5300C5 Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB)

I have overclocked the processors to 3.0Ghz.

I mostly play World of Warcraft and my system is really struggling on the new expansion pack that has just come up.

Would like a new Graphics card that will play other games like COD4 etc at full settings but would settle just to play World of Warcraft at full settings.

Think I will need a new PSU as well? Can spend up to £200 for both a card and PSU but only if I have to!

Thanks in advance


Mark
 
Keep your current power supply and pick up an ATI 4850. No point wasting money on a new one when your Antec 380W is perfectly fine.:)
 
Thank you for your help.

Would any PSU of that power rating do? As one of my friends has a spare 600W I can have cheap.

Cheers.

I wouldn't but a second hand PSU unless I knew It was a good brand relatively new from somebody I knew, Imagine how annoyed you'd be if the PSU damaged something else too.
 
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