Please help choose graphics card [Gaming]

rmcready · Dec 23, 2013

Hey everyone, I just bought a desktop like last month and by experience(playing gta4), I know the graphics card isn't really meant for heavy gaming If you guys could help me find a graphics card that is meant for heavy gaming it would mean a lot. Sorry if this looks like it was rushed written its just I've written this about 4 times now and whenever I hit submit it says the page can't be found sorry it is just driving me insane. Anyways I'm not a very techy guy I'm kind of a beginner so any help would be appreciated. I've never really given specs so i'll give it my best shot, let me know if you need anything else and please let me know where to find it.

Thanks, Ryan.

Specs:
System Manufacturer: LENOVO
System Model: 10120
Ram: 8 gigs
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 (4g of dedicated memory to the card)
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GT 630
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Type: Full Device

Francisco Costa · Dec 23, 2013

rmcready :

Hey everyone, I just bought a desktop like last month and by experience(playing gta4), I know the graphics card isn't really meant for heavy gaming If you guys could help me find a graphics card that is meant for heavy gaming it would mean a lot. Sorry if this looks like it was rushed written its just I've written this about 4 times now and whenever I hit submit it says the page can't be found sorry it is just driving me insane. Anyways I'm not a very techy guy I'm kind of a beginner so any help would be appreciated. I've never really given specs so i'll give it my best shot, let me know if you need anything else and please let me know where to find it.

Thanks, Ryan.

Specs:
System Manufacturer: LENOVO
System Model: 10120
Ram: 8 gigs
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 (4g of dedicated memory to the card)
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GT 630
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Type: Full Device

What's the resolution you play on and what's your budget?

sosofm · Dec 23, 2013

What power supply do you have ?

rmcready · Dec 23, 2013

Francisco Costa :

rmcready :

What's the resolution you play on and what's your budget?

I play on something high I believe its 1980 x 1020 or whichever the one close to that is, and probably under 300 or 250? Is that a good budget for a pretty good card?

sosofm · Dec 23, 2013

The budget is good. You can't put a better GPU if your power supply will blow. That's why i asked you what power supply do you have.

Francisco Costa · Dec 23, 2013

rmcready :

Francisco Costa :

I play on something high I believe its 1980 x 1020 or whichever the one close to that is, and probably under 300 or 250? Is that a good budget for a pretty good card?

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There are various price ranges.
sub-$250: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n760tf2gd5oc
sub-$320: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-r9280xdc2t3gd5
sub-$350: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n770lightning

But yeah, sosofm is right we need to know your PSU

rmcready · Dec 23, 2013

sosofm :

Sorry this responce was late I just had to check by unplugging it

It said 125v on the side of it

rmcready · Dec 23, 2013

Francisco Costa :

rmcready :

1920x1080

There are various price ranges.
sub-$250: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n760tf2gd5oc
sub-$320: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-r9280xdc2t3gd5
sub-$350: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n770lightning

But yeah, sosofm is right we need to know your PSU

I believe 125v

sosofm · Dec 23, 2013

You look at something with W like 400W or other number.

rmcready · Dec 23, 2013

sosofm :

Oh my bad man, 300W

sosofm · Dec 23, 2013

If you want to upgrade your GPU you must to upgrade your power supply too.
What is your budget ?

rmcready · Dec 23, 2013

sosofm :

I guess under 400 probably? would that get me good performance?

sosofm · Dec 23, 2013

In that price range MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-r9280xgaming3g
And this PSU Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-power-supply-cx600m
If you want an Nvidia GPU than this MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n770tf2gd5oc

rmcready · Dec 23, 2013

sosofm :

Is there a way that I could confirm it would fit my computer?

sosofm · Dec 23, 2013

I can't find the dimensions for your case. You can measure from the back at the case to the hard drive cage. If the hard drive is removable i think will fit.
The card dimensions are MSI R9 280X : 10.6" x 5.04" x 1.34"
MSI GeForce GTX 770 :10.24" x 4.96" x 1.5"

rmcready · Dec 23, 2013

sosofm :

But if it fits it will work with my computer?

sosofm · Dec 24, 2013

Yes , you must change the power supply too.

Francisco Costa · Dec 24, 2013

Yeah it will work with your computer just fine.
I recommend the 770 over the 280X, and the MSI version is the best of them all, so +1 to sosofm.
However, for the power supply, I don't agree with him because Corsair uses lower quality parts in ther CX series PSUs. For $10 more you can get something bigger and with much better quality: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-power-supply-p1650snlb9

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