- Apr 14, 2014
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Hi,
recently, I bought a new desktop, which I thought would be more than enough for my general use at the time - internet browsing, light gaming, music etc.
It was a custom build, not by me but by Dino PC (i customized a Seismo i3 4130)
these were my customization's:
CPU: Intel Core i5 4670
Operating System: windows 8.1 64 bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte H87M-HD3
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333mhz (2x4GB)
Hard Drive: Seagate 1TB (Hybrid 8GB SSD)
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Internet: Wireless 802.11N 300Mbps MIMO PCI-E card
Graphics card: Intel Hd Graphics 4600
Monitors: LG 21.5" 22EN33S-B LED
PSU: 500W PSU
The games I played at the time were not really graphics based e.g football manager, older total wars etc. - which ran well on respectable settings
However after exploring steam some more and a few sales, i began to stretch my graphics card more and more, until I was playing GTA IV and several racing games. Obviously these were played on low settings, a bit disappointing since I have just bought this computer in the last 2-3 months)
Initially i just went into the bios and gave the graphics card more ram to use, which helped a little bit. But I still cannot get above 20-25 fps on GTA and similar games (when I would prefer something more like 30+ at 1080p)
so I was wondering whether a secondary graphics card could be useful, something around £100 (less is better) and that would not need anything special to be done, so no extra components other than the card. Almost like plug and play if that was possible. one other requirement would be that my monitor only has a 'D-sub' port, so any card would need to support this.
thanks
recently, I bought a new desktop, which I thought would be more than enough for my general use at the time - internet browsing, light gaming, music etc.
It was a custom build, not by me but by Dino PC (i customized a Seismo i3 4130)
these were my customization's:
CPU: Intel Core i5 4670
Operating System: windows 8.1 64 bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte H87M-HD3
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333mhz (2x4GB)
Hard Drive: Seagate 1TB (Hybrid 8GB SSD)
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Internet: Wireless 802.11N 300Mbps MIMO PCI-E card
Graphics card: Intel Hd Graphics 4600
Monitors: LG 21.5" 22EN33S-B LED
PSU: 500W PSU
The games I played at the time were not really graphics based e.g football manager, older total wars etc. - which ran well on respectable settings
However after exploring steam some more and a few sales, i began to stretch my graphics card more and more, until I was playing GTA IV and several racing games. Obviously these were played on low settings, a bit disappointing since I have just bought this computer in the last 2-3 months)
Initially i just went into the bios and gave the graphics card more ram to use, which helped a little bit. But I still cannot get above 20-25 fps on GTA and similar games (when I would prefer something more like 30+ at 1080p)
so I was wondering whether a secondary graphics card could be useful, something around £100 (less is better) and that would not need anything special to be done, so no extra components other than the card. Almost like plug and play if that was possible. one other requirement would be that my monitor only has a 'D-sub' port, so any card would need to support this.
thanks
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