Dell E521 Upgrade to geforce 8600 / 8800?

[QUOTH]

I have another thread asking about a problem with my motherboard/graphics card. Please have alook if you can help.

Weird video faulty sound

WIndows XP Home
nVidia GeForce 7300 LE 128 REV: A00
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dueal 5000+ 2.61GHz
2.00GB RAM

Details hereDetails here


Im looking to spend about £150 on a new graphics card. Something that will last me years. I need to know if theres any reason my pc wont be able to handle it.

Btw I know Directx 10 is vista only.

My two worries are Do I have enough power and Is the motherboard and processor ok for the fast card


If in reading my PC specs right then the power stats are
"305 W"
"90 to 135 V and 180 to 265 V at 50/60 Hz"


Oh, one more thing. Any graphics card manufacturers worth avoiding? Any that can be recomended for well made cards that last?

Thanks in advance.

Q

 

[hans007]

305 watt dell power supply probably is supply about 22amps to the 12v rail. i think thats the atx standard.

you can probably easily run an 8600gt.

the 8800 especially with an AMD 5000+ using up probably 80 watts or so at load, you might be pushing it if you get a g80 one. i would figure the 8800gt or 8800gts g92 version would probably work if you dont have tons of other stuff like say 3 hard drives and 2 cdroms. you might want to wait for the even lower power 9600gt to be released.

 

[happy medium]

Originally posted by: QUOTH
I have another thread asking about a problem with my motherboard/graphics card. Please have alook if you can help.

Weird video faulty sound

WIndows XP Home
nVidia GeForce 7300 LE 128 REV: A00
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dueal 5000+ 2.61GHz
2.00GB RAM

Details hereDetails here


Im looking to spend about £150 on a new graphics card. Something that will last me years. I need to know if theres any reason my pc wont be able to handle it.

Btw I know Directx 10 is vista only.

My two worries are Do I have enough power and Is the motherboard and processor ok for the fast card
If in reading my PC specs right then the power stats are
"305 W"
"90 to 135 V and 180 to 265 V at 50/60 Hz"


Oh, one more thing. Any graphics card manufacturers worth avoiding? Any that can be recomended for well made cards that last?

Thanks in advance.

Q

yes your cpu is fine and your psu will run a 8800gt (g92)

 

[QUOTH]

Great guys, thankyou. Thats what I wanted to hear.

Just to be clear you both said a 8800gt would be OK, is the 8800gts no good for my system?

If anyone can help with my other problem [graphics card based ~I think] please follow the link and have a look.

Details here

Q

 

[hans007]

i don tthin kthe 8800gts g92 is much more power than the 8800gt g92. just dont get a 320 or 640mb 8800gts g80 or 8800gtx and i think you will be ok. might be a bit of overkill for a 5000+ though... i thikn the 8800gt would be fine.

 

[QUOTH]

I decided to buy a reasonably priced card in the hope all is ok. A XFX 8600GTS XXX version 256MB.

I just hope the problem isnt with my motherboard.


Thanks for the help guys. If anyone would be kind enough to help with my other thread [linked above] I'd appreciate it.

 

[acityDweller]

glad you received your answers. You will get more help here than over at the dellcommunity... Not much experience nor helpful advice offerred over there as you would expect...

 

[QUOTH]

I know, it's the first place i tried lol.

I'm still in new waters. I've never had a mid-high range card before. I don't know where I stand with long usage, overheating and overclocking [which I'm probably going to keep away from].

Hopefully everything will be fine, but I'm hoping I can come here for detailed troubleshooting.


All feedback, advice and comments welcome.

Q

 

[QUOTH]

OK, I have decied on a new PSU [a Coolermaster IGreen 500W PSU - 85% Efficiency ATX12V v2.2 120mm Fan and a EVGA 8600GTS 512mb.

Questions are:

1) Erm, 4 pin molex needed? Do I have one? Adapters? I'm using a dual processor, 2 DVD drives and 2 HD's.

2) Is the card OK, is the 512 worth the extra money?

3) Should I get a 8800gt? would it run hotter than a 8600gts?

I won't be overclocking. I'm afraid of my system running hot...


Thanks in advance. I'm glad to say advice i have gotten so far has been pretty thorough and verry helpful.

Q