PC upgrade

GJS1

GJS1

GJS1

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Hi, I was intending building a new system until I spent a large amount of money on a new DSLR camera and a £5000.00 trip to Africa.
Theh current computer I have has a Q6600 @2.4ghz (stock board so it's not overclockable) and really seems to struggle with doing video and photos. It has a PCI X16 express lane (i think it's 1.0 as it doesn't say otherwise), I was wanting to get a GPU to try and take some of the pressure off the CPU when I'm dealing with photos. What I'm thinking is either a gtx 460 or 470.
A. will this be bottle necked in a 1.0?
B. Is it just the system being generally slow or could this help out?

thanks
 
more specs?

amount of ram?

harddrive make and model?

current graphics card?

operating system?
 
Hope you enjoyed the WC mate - wish I could have gone.

Not sure how a graphic card is going to help with photo's, mainly I am not sure what it is you are doing with the photo's. But if the problem is with opening them and stuff like that, then I would say ram or lack of ram might be an issue.

But I am just guessing right now.

Could you post a full spec of your system and explain exactly what it is you need your PC to be doing. That CPU should be fine for pretty everything really.
 
ok the spec is:
640GB 7.2K RPM. It's partitioned and brand is WD. I'm not sure of the cache size...
Ram is 4GB of DDR2 @677MHZ (slow I know) and I can't add more because it's on a 32 bit OS
All the graphics processing power is an onboard Nvidia 7100 chipset.

Ideally I was going tobuild a PC for gaming as I'm fed up of my console, I spend much of my time reading articals about 4GHZ hyperthreaded i7s and it makes me seem as though I'm lagging behind.
Without gaming in mind I will want to edit photos in Gimp (maby photoshop in a few months time) and edit and render 1080p videos.

WC is next summer (but thanks for asking) and that's why I can't really spend money on a new system over the next year because I'm paying for that. i got the camera because I'm off to NY in a few weeks.
 
your cpu, amount of ram and harddrive are still decent.

must be either an old windows install, try doing a fresh reinstall.

or, the weak onboard gpu.
 
In that case based on the needs that you have expressed a discrete graphics card will certainly be a positive addition to your set up. The good thing is that you can select one that will be transferable to your next socket upgrade (i7 or what ever Sandybridge will be called)

I fully agree with stulid that an OS refresh is needed - certainly it would not do any harm.
 
Seriously you will not notice it. A PCi-e x16 1.0 has a 2.5GB/s transfer rate. Not that many card are actually going to max that out in game situations at all.
 
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