Time for an upgrade advice needed.

[Will Lucky]

My ATI 700x over the last week has been suffering from flashes across the screen whenever I play a game and unless I turned the game off I would get a BSOD. So I decided seeing how the 700x is a pretty old card perhaps it is time for an upgrade especially seeing how a lot of the latest games are now coming out with this near the bare minimum.

Unfortunatly im not an expert about Graphics cards but I know that the Motherboard and Power Supply are involved So I have a 350W PSU and a P5GD1-FM/S

Any Advice would be appreciated.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Welcome to the forums, what is your budget here for the graphics card? At the cheaper end of the scale you might like to look at the X1950pro but make sure that your PSU is a decent brand because 350w isn't a huge amount of power.

 

[Will Lucky]

I am prepared to go for a 1950X Pro of course I was worried about the PSU as for the Brand im not too sure this is a Fujitsu Siemens PC Pre-Built last time im going down that route as well I might add. And thank you for the welcome.

 

[psychas]

if you can stretch further new power supply and 2900pro its a beast

 

[Will Lucky]

I dont want to go DX10 at the moment I want to stick to DX9 for the meantime and probably build a PC late 08/Early 09. Im waiting for SP1 on Vista, another range of DX10 cards and more games that use it till I actually make the big plunge.

 

[Will Lucky]

Any other suggestions?

 

[Will Lucky]

Ok I want to order hopefully early this week, is it possible then to use the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB with my 350W PSU or would it be safer to go down to the ATI Radeon X1650?

 

[J.D]

Ok I want to order hopefully early this week, is it possible then to use the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB with my 350W PSU or would it be safer to go down to the ATI Radeon X1650?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=ca-085-an&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

http://www.antec.com/specs/ea380_spe.html

This is cheap and should power the x1950 going from the specs but wait until someone else verifies this as I may be wrong.

Also I would get the X1950 over the x1650 any day as they are worlds apart.