Best recommened Graphics card

[Argonaut110]

Also I might find that this modded PC could have more memory than I last thought...would it enable me to get onto the ladder if it had anything above 4GB RAM? Or would I need to grab another processor aswell?

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by Argonaut110

Bledd-*Head-desk* the system I get give and it won't cut the mustard... And I can't buy a new machine because..well..I'm not rich(Sadly).Anyway thanks for your help, I think I was a litttttttttle too ambitious with everything. BUT could you recommend me a graphics card that would sort me out for the future (1GB/2GB/3GB+) even if I can't play CoD? Also I hope Il-2 1946 still has a community because I think I'll have to settle with that as my Combat game..Le sigh..

it does have a community. I dont know, but a 6770 is a cheap option and its the one who better matches the rest of your PC. a 6850 is clearly beter, but it also more expensive. a 550 i think its just not worth it.

EDIT:

you wont find more than 4 GB of ram. 4GB is the limit for that MOBO.

[Argonaut110]

I've found a GeForce GT 640 within my budget and it's pretty small so I know it'll fit within my machine and It fits well within my PSU. Would that be a worthy buy for my system and would it fit me for the future and work well with everything I want it to work with? Or would I need a Dedicated Graphics chip for it?

[pupo162]

Originally Posted by Argonaut110

I've found a GeForce GT 640 within my budget and it's pretty small so I know it'll fit within my machine and It fits well within my PSU. Would that be a worthy buy for my system and would it fit me for the future and work well with everything I want it to work with? Or would I need a Dedicated Graphics chip for it?

im not familair with that GPU. ive never bothered to research specs below the Nvidea X50 series and the ATI X7XX series

[Argonaut110]

It's a 2GB card that checks the boxes for PSU, size and fits just into my budget (£8 I can scavenge somehow). Everyday when I do a bit of research into what GPu replacement I want and I seem to end up with a different card everyday. So i think I might settle on the Gt 640..If you can recommend a better 2GB card before Tuesday (maybe Wednesday if the video card comes late) then please do, but even if it doesn't make a difference, I'll post my specs anyway.

*http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=32011
Does this mean the card is actually rubbish? I couldn't make sense of it.

[Warhound]

I think a 1gb 6850 is your best bet.
It's a good bit faster than a 550ti, especially at resolutions above 1680 x 1050 and equally important... it draws about the same power as your 8800GTX (slightly less) and also only uses 1 6-pin PCI-E connector.
So if your 8800GTX runs stable under max load so should the 6850.
Here's an online shop which has a 83£ deal on a MSI 1GB 6850 OC
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/search...d=&search=6850

I've dug a bit and seems there are people who have plugged a quadcore q6600 or q6700 (higher ones won't work) into their dimension 9200, but they aren't officially supported.
You will be cutting it very close PSU-wise though since the C2D has a TDP of 65 Watt ,while the C2Q is 105W..combine this with a graphics card which draws quite a bit of power, compared to your PSU rating, and you could well run into trouble.
Dell generally rate their PSU's pretty well, but if you need to upgrade the GPU,CPU and PSU you might aswell save a while longer and build a new budget PC.


edit : I'd forget about the 640..it seems to perform pretty bad from the one review i can find and is mostly intended for HTPC's or mini PC's
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ew,3214-3.html
That is if a 6850 physically fits in your Dell, which is something I didn't look into!

[pupo162]

Arganaut... just remembered if you are on XP, you probably are on 32 bit, so you might as well forget a 2 GB GPU


the 6850 is the best buy, i think the 640 is NOT a gaming GPU so you will face lots of problems with that.

[Argonaut110]

Thanks for your advice, I think that card looks very good and right for me. To prevent me yet again finding another card tommorrow, I'll favourite that site and leave it. Btw, I didn't catch a few of your abbriations, so i'll list the ones I didn't understand:
C2Q
C2D
TDP

I don't know the CPU yet and it could very well be upgraded since I don't know what it is...but once the graphics card is purchased I'll have to wait for some money to buy a new PSU, then a new CPU unless I overclock it somehow (Idk how to do that).
But it was a case of "here's a new machine for YOU to have which you can upgrade if you need to" as previously I had to share a computer that I wasn't allowed to upgrade..
Also will this card fit into my machine?
(Going to be offline for awhile but I will come back, just don't expect a response immediately)

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Argonaut110

I've found a GeForce GT 640 within my budget and it's pretty small so I know it'll fit within my machine and It fits well within my PSU. Would that be a worthy buy for my system and would it fit me for the future and work well with everything I want it to work with? Or would I need a Dedicated Graphics chip for it?

The thing about graphics card numbers is that the first one is the year or series. So on that basis a GT 640 is probably better than a GT 540, but quite probably worse than a GT 550, though depending on how much progress the GPU maker made between the series GT 5xx and GT 6xx maybe not. You can depend on a say GT 610 being worse than a GTX 580, or even a GTX 480, but when it gets to a GTX 280 you have to look it up, in this case the GTX 280 would be considerably stronger, but IIRC there was no GTX 180.

Radeons are somewhat similar, a HD 7970 will be better than a HD 6970, but a HD 7870 is pretty similar, a HD7850 will be less powerful, and a 76xx will be much weaker.

This site seems to be useful:

http://www.gpureview.com/database.php

Please note that laptop GPUs use different but similar naming systems, typically laptop graphic cards are desktop graphic cards with higher numbers attached.

[Argonaut110]

I see what you mean, thanks.
When I power the system up I'll see what specs there is, then I'll have to see what needs to be upgraded to play Il-2 CoD on it. (probably bleddy well everything ) I can tell I'm gonna have to wait a while to upgrade everything, but since I don't want to buy a new PC to use, I suppose that's just how it'll go. I've still got FSX and Il-2:1946 to cart me along until I can finally play it, Or if by some chance an update comes around that somehow makes it able to run on my system...'dout it. Le sigh.