need to upgrade a stone PC to play simple games such as sims 4

Reddwarf4ever · Oct 5, 2015

my daughter has a stone PC which is....
penguin dual core ES700
4 GB DDR3 ram
mobile Intel DG41WV
500 GB Santa HDD
windows 7 home premium
The GPU is the on board G41
I want to try and upgrade it, hoping that a GPU would give some improvement to some shaky graphics in SIMS4 and sluggish behaviour...

I would like some suggestions on GPU choice, not sure yet what PSU is, but suspect it to be on the low side....an HD 6670 was suggested in a different post, but that was several years ago, so not sure if now there are better options"
the BIOS is 2010.... so could update that, but only if it will help.

also could upgrade to windows 10 but don't suppose that alone will help.

have turned off all unnecessary startup / background items

would really appreciate some help

thanks

aldan · Oct 5, 2015

if you go for a 6670 you will be looking for used.almost any low to mid range card will do,keeping in mind its an old processor.definitely a psu simply due to age.a decent quality 500w would be fine.as for the bios,the only reason to update it would be to fix a problem.my old phenom is running a bios from 2010 and windows 10 and all my hardware run without a hitch.windows 10 in itself will not make the games run faster.if you keep windows 7,and you might want to for a while until the bugs are worked out of 10,here are some services tweaks you can do that will help a bit.
http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-7-service-pack-1-service-configurations/

Reddwarf4ever · Oct 5, 2015

aldan :

if you go for a 6670 you will be looking for used.almost any low to mid range card will do,keeping in mind its an old processor.definitely a psu simply due to age.a decent quality 500w would be fine.as for the bios,the only reason to update it would be to fix a problem.my old phenom is running a bios from 2010 and windows 10 and all my hardware run without a hitch.windows 10 in itself will not make the games run faster.if you keep windows 7,and you might want to for a while until the bugs are worked out of 10,here are some services tweaks you can do that will help a bit.
http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-7-service-pack-1-service-configurations/

do you still think a 6670 is my best option ?......thanks

aldan · Oct 6, 2015

with what you have for your other hardware i think it would be enough.im still running an hd4870.lol.

Reddwarf4ever · Oct 7, 2015

I actually have an MSI GT 730 GPU but not sure if it's suitable for the motherboard I wish to upgrade....the box says PCI-E 2
Thanks

cst1992 · Oct 7, 2015

The 730 is perfectly suitable. All these cards are backward compatible. I am running a GTX 650, a generation older to the 730, on a 2008 bios without a single BSOD.

Reddwarf4ever · Oct 7, 2015

thanks just wasn't sure if it was comparable with the DG41WV mobo as the card wants PCE-2....also would this card be better than the 6670 previously suggested

aldan · Oct 7, 2015

yep,as was said,no problems running that card.it is better than the 6670 in my opinion.

Reddwarf4ever · Oct 7, 2015

thank you, didn't realise the 1.1 and 2.0 versions are physically identical and the 2.0 is backward compatible.

thanks for all your help....

resolved...

aldan · Oct 8, 2015

glad your all sorted out.

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