Will my new GPU's work in my ancient PC?

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Beaucoupnice

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Hi All,

I have an Old PC with an AZZA - P4X4-ALH Motherboard, Intel pentium(r) 4 CPU 2.66GHZ CPU and 512 mb PC2700 RAM.

I have bought a couple of GPU's - namely
1. Radeon 7970 OC Edition
2. PHENOM X6 1045T / 2 GPU / 1TB / 10GB RAM

I was wondering if they would work in it?

Thanks in advance

Beau
 
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mate the amount of money you will get back for that pentium 4 wont cover the post and packing to the buyer. its worth pretty much zero dollars...
that semperon wont have enough grunt to run either of them cards also.
1 is pretty midrange while the other 7970 is high end.
the semperon is a very budget cpu...

you would want to pair the 68** card with a minimum 2.4 quad core amd preferably phenom 2 or better or intel i3 dual core with hyperthreading @2.4 or better.
the 7970 would be best with an fx 6350 or better or in intel i5 @2.4 or better.
anything less and you wont see much performance from either card due to bottlenecking.

that build without the cpu would be perfect for either card. just swap out the semperon for a 6350 or 8350 and...
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HEXiT

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lol no... that board is way way old mate as is the rest of the pc... you will need a motherboard that supports pci-e2.0-3.0 and yours is the now defunct agp socket.

number 1 is a gpu.
number 2 is a complete build that you could put the 7970, but you have it listed as already having 2 gpu's in it...
 
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Beaucoupnice

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Thanks for your reply HEXiT.

I have some spare motherboards lying around including:

A. Intel DQ35MPE Motherboard - DQ35MPE
B. Intel Server Motherboard - SE7221BK1-LX
C. Intel Desktop Motherboard - D955XBK
D. Gigabyte S- Series Motherboard GA-G33M-DS2R

Will any of these work with the GPU's I mentioned?

Thx again

Beau
 
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HEXiT

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you only mention 1 gpu mate the 7970. and thats just way to much gpu for an intel pentium 4. it will immediately bottleneck and do it badly so discard any pentium 4 boards or any thought of putting it with a pentium 4 cpu.

to get the best from that 7970 you will need something like the phenom x6 (the phenom has 6 cpu cores which is more than 6 time the power of the pentium 4 single core)and even then it may need a slight oc to bring the single core performance up.

so none of the boards you have listed will work as none of them are pci-e 2 complient...

do us a favour and have a look at the phenom build.
what motherboard, gpu's, ram and psu are in that build. as thats the pc you want to be working on.
makes and models plz.


in fact take the pentium 4 build along with all the 775 motherboards to your local pc store and ask them to get rid of it for you...(you cant just dump them or put them in the rubbish yourself).
 
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Beaucoupnice

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Sorry, number 2 wasn't a full computer build it was only meant to be a single GPU - copied it wrong. Number 2 should have read " AMD Radeon HD 6850 GPU"

It looks like I need a complete rebuild and I need to flog off my old PC along with all the motherboards.

Thx again for your help. I'll probably look into buying a build like what I saw online - namely:

MD sempron 145 processor
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard 150
SeaSonic Platinum SS-860XP2 Power Supply.

It seems cheap enough.
 
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HEXiT

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mate the amount of money you will get back for that pentium 4 wont cover the post and packing to the buyer. its worth pretty much zero dollars...
that semperon wont have enough grunt to run either of them cards also.
1 is pretty midrange while the other 7970 is high end.
the semperon is a very budget cpu...

you would want to pair the 68** card with a minimum 2.4 quad core amd preferably phenom 2 or better or intel i3 dual core with hyperthreading @2.4 or better.
the 7970 would be best with an fx 6350 or better or in intel i5 @2.4 or better.
anything less and you wont see much performance from either card due to bottlenecking.

that build without the cpu would be perfect for either card. just swap out the semperon for a 6350 or 8350 and you will have a great gaming pc.
the psu in it is a bit extreme look for 1 with 650w by seasonic if they have them.
 
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