• Upgrading my PC. Help me decide :)
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Hey, So I'm looking to upgrade my PC. Current setup: 3gb DDR2 667Mhz RAM GeForce 8600GT Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33Ghz 500W PSU Dell 0RY007 Motherboard I am going to buy a new case, possibly more ram and a new graphics card. I will be changing my motherboard to a different one I had already bought last year for another PC build that never got made in the end. That motherboard is a "Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 Rev2 (Socket 775) PCI-Express/AGP DDR2 Motherboard". I also will be using a better CPU cooler than I am at the moment (current PC is prebuilt Dell one). Now my question is this: which graphics card should I buy? Currently looking at either: Nvidia 1Gb 9800GT [url]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/171941[/url] OR ATI Radeon 512MB HD 4870 [url]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-143-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=939[/url] I have only really ever used Nvidia cards so I'm not exactly sure how well the 4870 compares to the 9800Gt, help me out? Please note I have a budget of about £120 to buy all of these things (ram,case,gpu) so I am looking for a card at around 80-£100. No higher please. Thankyou to all who post!
If you're going to upgrade your motherboard you'll need a new power supply.
Well the one with the Dell was some crappy 300W but I recently just changed it over to a 500W one that I bought at the same time as the motherboard.
The 4870 dominates the 9800GT.
You don't need a fancy case, just go with something that works (budget!). 4GB of DDR2 should run you under 40$, which should be around 25E. As for graphics, if you need budget, go with a 4850. If you can, however, get a 4870 (which I see is what you're looking at. Completely owns the 9800GT).
Alright thanks for the reply guys, looks like I will take the ATI card. I was going to upgrade my case because this shitty dell one is really small and won't take the bigger card. Also it has [b]one[/b] fucking fan, my card idles at 60C. Thanks!
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