Best Graphics Card upgrade for my dimension 9150

Jseabury98 · Jan 11, 2014

I recently acquired an old Dell Dimension 9150 and i am looking to upgrade alot of parts on it for gaming.

Current Graphics card:ATI Radeon X300 SE

Current power supply: L375P-00(whatever that is)

Processor: Intel Pentium D

Anything that should be updated/upgraded today that you think i should buy to run new games fairly well let me know. My budget is anywhere but dont crush my wallet

DarkRaider8701 · Jan 11, 2014

I looked at your PC, and it has a PCIe x16 1.0/1.1 (Not sure which one: doesn't matter) If you can go $250, I would recomened a gtx 760 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130932 . Stay with that if you can. If you go at $200, I would go with a 660 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121660 . It will be able to play most new games at medium/high/very high( very doubtful on crysis 3 etc.). The reason I only list NVIDIA cards is because they are the only ones backwards compatible. PCIe 3.0 AMD cards are not, because they use a power saving feature only found in 2.1 and 3.0.

Jseabury98 · Jan 12, 2014

DarkRaider8701 :

I was Looking at the GTX 660 but under specifications it says i need a 450W Power SUpply and mine only show that it is 375W? Will this be an issue?

DarkRaider8701 · Jan 12, 2014

Jseabury98 :

DarkRaider8701 :

I was Looking at the GTX 660 but under specifications it says i need a 450W Power SUpply and mine only show that it is 375W? Will this be an issue?

Yes it will. You will most likely have to get a new power supply for almost any graphics card. Maybe not a gtx 650, but it will not run newer games at high to very high settings. I could recommend a $20 power supply, but you will not be able to sli until you get a new power supply. I would recommend this PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817170019 . Most 650 tis and 660s will come with a Molex to PCIe (Peripheral to PCIe).
I would strongly reccomend you this GPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130967 , which has a EVGA ACX cooler.

DarkRaider8701 · Jan 12, 2014

You will have to get a sata to ide converter for your HDD though

DarkRaider8701 · Jan 12, 2014

I truly think that your CPU may be a severe bottleneck if you play some of the newest games. Skyrim will require a quad core CPU just to play on recommended. It will probably need even more to play max settings.

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