Based on advice I received from this board, I bought 2 PNY GTX 650 1GB cards from best buy for $65 each. I actually received 2 different flavors of the cards in each box though -- one single slot (with an open fan) and one dual slot (with a closed type fan) -- see pictures. Which of these...
What C2D do you currently have?
If she has very basic needs, the C2D maybe sufficient with just a couple upgrades. The big one (as others have mentioned) is to stick an SSD drive in it (should improve performance dramatically). Get it up to at least 4GB in RAM and Install a fresh copy of...
Thanks for the great info guys.
I did consider the R7 250, but those go for $80-$90+; I'm not that crazy about sinking a lot of money in for an old socket 755 system.
The $50 G7 240's I've been looking at have DDR3 memory. Does the DDR3 memory really cripple the card as opposed to one...
So my teenager is using my old socket 775 system:
E7300 Core2Duo CPU
MSI G31 Motherboard (I forgot the model)
4GB DDR2 RAM
128GB SSD
Antec 380W power supply
Windows 7 Pro Installed
She uses it for mostly schoolwork and web-surfing which is adequate for her needs.
But she also wants...
For what it's worth, I ran an almost identical htpc setup for the last couple of years (E8400 + 4GB RAM + 500GB HD); only difference was that I used a 6450 video card.
I decided to retire it last month and went with a Kabini 5350 setup (cpu + board were around $100) -- much more energy...
Picked up the combo yesterday at my Fry's and stuck the (OEM) E8400 into my Gigabtye GA-P35-DS3L board (the ECS one is going to be given away).
Just wondering...the CPU is idling at 47 degrees C (using an Artic Freezer Pro cooler with Arctic Silver 5)...is this high for this processor? My...
I picked up an ECS Geforce7050M-M (Socket AM2) motherboard in one of those Fry's combos a few days ago. This board has an onboard Realtek ALC662 sound chip.
After installing Windows XP (32-bit) SP2, I can't seem to get the onboard sound to work. I used CD that came with the motherboard...
I have a bizarre video card problem. I recently tried to upgrade the video card from an old (socket 939 system of mine). The old card is a Geforce 6200 PCI-Express card, and I was moving over to a Geforce 7600GS. My system works fine with the 6200, but as soon as I replace it with the 7600GS...
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