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December 23, 2013 11:20:38 AM

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

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December 23, 2013 11:23:34 AM

rmcready said:
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?
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December 23, 2013 11:25:16 AM

What power supply do you have ?
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December 23, 2013 11:32:57 AM

Francisco Costa said:
rmcready said:
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?


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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December 23, 2013 11:36:27 AM

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.
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December 23, 2013 11:36:40 AM

rmcready said:
Francisco Costa said:
rmcready said:
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?


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?


1920x1080 :p 

There are various price ranges.
sub-$250: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n760tf2gd5o...
sub-$320: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-r9280xdc2t...
sub-$350: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n770lightni...

But yeah, sosofm is right we need to know your PSU
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December 23, 2013 11:38:09 AM

sosofm said:
What power supply do you have ?


sosofm said:
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.


Sorry this responce was late I just had to check by unplugging it
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It said 125v on the side of it
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December 23, 2013 11:39:45 AM

Francisco Costa said:
rmcready said:
Francisco Costa said:
rmcready said:
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?


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?


1920x1080 :p 

There are various price ranges.
sub-$250: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n760tf2gd5o...
sub-$320: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-r9280xdc2t...
sub-$350: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n770lightni...

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


I believe 125v
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December 23, 2013 11:48:10 AM

You look at something with W like 400W or other number.
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December 23, 2013 11:54:12 AM

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


Oh my bad man, 300W
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December 23, 2013 12:08:33 PM

If you want to upgrade your GPU you must to upgrade your power supply too.
What is your budget ?
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December 23, 2013 12:13:35 PM

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


I guess under 400 probably? would that get me good performance?
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December 23, 2013 12:37:23 PM

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"

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December 23, 2013 12:56:55 PM

sosofm said:
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"



But if it fits it will work with my computer?
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December 23, 2013 10:06:35 PM

Yes , you must change the power supply too.
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December 24, 2013 4:47:37 AM

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-p1650snlb...
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