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X1950Pro and Dell Dimension 4600

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adek011

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Hey does anyone know how well if at all would a x1950 pro work on a dimension 4600. My old vid card (9800) has been acting up and its displaying weird vertical columns with horizontal lines in them on my display. I tried changed the display drivers and now the screen is fuzzy and has a lot of large pixels (prlly wrong term). The boot up screen is also messed up. So I saw the deal on newegg to get a x1950 pro for 130 and wondered if I should just change now. I looked up the specs for the pc and it shows a power supply of only 250 W so that could be troubling. Also, my current specs are P4 2.8 ghz w/ 1 gig of ram, I was wondering if that would limit the capabilities of the vid card. Thanks.
 
Your psu is not strong enough and your cpu will will bottleneck that card.
The best you can do is a 7600gt. It still twice as fast as your 9800
 
Although there are benefits to having your CPU bottleneck things as I've found, I just bought an x1950gt and I'm happy that I can max all the games I play (nothing terribly new) out setting wise, and enable all the special ATI features and not have to worry about my video card not handling it, but rather my CPU being the limitor.

But yeah, depending if you also feel like upgrading your PSU, you're going to want to go with something a little less power hungry.
 
what about the x1900gt, is that more reasonable or will that also require a larger psu and the cpu will prolly bottleneck a lot of its capabilities. its only 80 bucks on newegg (open box)
 
you will need a new PSU, however Dell PSU's are unique and the pin-outs or mounting might be different that a standard ATX PSU.
 
Dell PSUs are very conservatively rated, and I wouldn't be surprised if you could run the Pro. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't. 😉

The GT -- being a cut-down XT, on a larger process than the Pro -- I believe actually takes more power.

You'd do fine with something like a 8600GTS though.
 
Isn't the 8600 GTS around the same level as the x1950 pro though? so wouldn't it need just as much power and will also be limited by my cpu?
 
BUMP!

I'm close to pulling the trigger on the x1950 lol I really need to know if that PS can handle the beast....
 
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