New Graphics Card Worth It??

[R0B75]

Need a little bit of advice.

Would a graphics card upgrade resolve a minor niggle I have when added to what I have below?? Currently using the onboard graphics...

Asus M4A78LT-M 760G (Socket AM3)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 840
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB

As I said, I'm currently using the onboard graphics and they have been fine, I don't really do anything other than browse the internet and edit HD video. The only issue I have is on certain websites like my Youtube channel and others with a lot of detail on them (Iplayer, ITV player etc), when scrolling its jerks all over the place. Everything else the PC does is quick and snappy as you would expect.

Is it worth buying dedicated graphics in this case?

 

[bells]

Yeah i would put a 5450/6450 430 in as it would be miles better than on-board graphics

 

[R0B75]

So assuming dedicated graphics will cure my issue, I probably need a new PSU then? My current one doesn't have any PCI-E connectors, unless these passively cooled cards can be powered from the PCI-E slots?

What card and PSU would one go for if some mild gaming were wanted? Bang for buck

 

[Mozzila]

5450/6450 are low power cards, probably not need for new psu. The cards with 6-8pin power connectors require a lot of power.

You mentioned jerking when scrolling, that happends when the display driver is not there, try updating the onboard graphics. try updating with this link:
http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=M4A78LT-M&p=1&s=24

If that don't fix the problem try borrow a graphic card from a friend to see if it fixes the problem.

MSI ATI Radeon HD 5450 512MB SILENT GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card
(£20.82) £24.98

Very cheap + low power + dx11

 

[Surveyor]

The drivers on the Asus website are out of date.

Go to this page:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Step 1 is Integrated Motherboard Graphics

Step 2 is Radeon 3xxx Series

Step 3 is Radeon 3000 Series

Step 4 select your operating system

Step 5 click Display Results

Download, install and away you go.

 

[Mozzila]

Great find

 

[Surveyor]

Great find

Thank you.

 

[R0B75]

The display driver is definitely there as I've checked. Like I said it only happens on certain websites and its not the same thing that happens when no display driver is present, its more like the frames per second drops a bit when on graphic intensive websites.