Manufacturer: Powerspec Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium Processor: Intel Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz Ram: 4GB Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT Now I wanted to upgrade my card to an Nvidia 8800,9600, or 9800. Also possibly a new processor... I only have about $300 so I was just wondering what is the best deal I could get for the amount of money...Im going for a better gaming pc basically for games like empire: total war and such... So any advice or help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
is there a quick way i can check besides opening up my pc and looking on the power box sticker inside?
Bestec ATX-300-12ED 300 Watt ATX Power Supply That the link to my power supply its a bestec Model: ATX 300-12E Rev. D1R
Your power supply will not support your dream. My thoughts on power supplies...Related to the negative effects of heat on the computer. Manufacturers test their PSU's at a set temperature...from this their rating is determined... for most this No. is 25 degrees Celsius...which falls short of the temperature that most computers are capable of achieving. Given that a PSU will actually lose 2-5 watts per one degree of heat above the 25 Degree Celsius testing temperature...coupled with the fact that computers tend to run at 10 degrees higher than room temperature... In the summer time when the room temperature can easily reach 80 degrees F... your computer will be running at 33 Degrees C. or 90 Degrees F. So the...math can make...your 500 watt power supply into a 460 watt unit. In addition to this...what needs to be taken into account is that each degree that your computer components are operating at...under powered...adds more heat to the equation. The above has not taken into account...the issue of high quality vs poor quality units...Power supplies convert voltages from wall outlets to lower levels used by the PC. During this conversion, some power is lost as heat. The efficiency level of the PSU determines how much extra power must be put into the power supply to run the PC. A high quality PSU can help reduce the noise and heat generated within a computer system. The higher the efficiency rating the less heat the PSU has to deal with. Therefore heat is the computers enemy...The hotter the temperature your PSU is forced to run at...the poorer the supply of power the rest of the components will receive...which has been known to lead to such things as crashes, freezing, rebooting, BSOD’s, and video distortion, as well as partial and complete failure of other components. The fact is very few PSU’s are capable of producing the wattage that the companies advertise. For a very good comprehension of recommended brand names, wattage, and models in listed categories...Plus much more...check out this link. Power Supply Information and Selection - Tech Support Forum PCI-E requires 26 amps at 12 volts. That's a 650W...Quality...PSU.
Click on the link I provided for you...and scroll down to the end of the page for suggestions of a good PSU.
Current Motherboard info (in my pc right now) Board: ECS 945GZT-M ECS Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 080012 04/18/2007 Hopefully this will be good enough for my upgrading... This is what i think im going to go with if my motherboard can handle it... Video card: I might need to go a little cheaper though because im on a tight budget. Newegg.com - EVGA 896-P3-1255-A1 GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards Processor: Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops or Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops and probablly a new psu but i have not picked one out yet... Let me know what you think..thanks again
Both Processors are a good choice...I have the E8400 in my rig. But I do not know if your motherboard will support them. My motherboard is the Asus P5Q PRO.
