Any chance evga 7950 gt will work on my Dimension 4700 :D

I desperately need your help since i was brainwashed into buying the evga 7950 GT 512 mb. I aksed the Dell comunity forums and they said it should work fine. The Dell is a p4 2.8 ghz 1 gig x600 pro pci express.

here is the link to the new egg site an the comunity site:

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportf [...] .id=153175

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 1c3grabb3r

please tell me it will work lol. the PSU i have is 305 watts but they say its under rated also i am thinking of upgrading my ram which ones should i get. Thanks alot.

Couldnt tell you for certain that it will work.
You have the 4700 and not the 4700c right???

Clearance might be an issue.
http://support.dell.com/support/ed [...] #wp1052788
If the card is too long it will interfer with the ram..

Only bad thing is you are going to have to use the 6 pin adapter
that comes with the video card since you have no 6pin power.
The P4 connector does not count.

3d marks 05 6372 ((((((((((

how can this be helped?

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=467907

3DMark '06: 5453 marks here.

You could get 2 high end video cards for a small fortune, and overclock the hell out of them when paired with a $650+ Power Supply Unit, and get some liquid cooling, or liquid carbon, etc

Or you could just use games as benchmarks, instead of Futuremarks ORB Database (many results are fakes).

The only single card solution capable of over 10,000 in 3DMark06 is the Geforce 8800GTX, and it's around 3x as fast as the 7950GT.

3DMark05: 6,372

- That is dead on for your card and specs.

- I don't think an extra PSU is going to help you score higher, unless you want to install 2 cards in SLI, and only if your mainboard supports it. (in which case you will need a better PSU).

nV prefers that you have a 400watt PSU for the 7950GT and over 20amps on your 12v+ rail. Yeah, your 305 may not make it, if your amperage rating corresponds with the card, it will run, but when the card looks for more wattage and cannot get it, it will slow down resulting in frame loss, hitching, or locking up. IMO, upgrade the PSU. They are cheap.

im thinking of doign a scale up to a 8800 gts and buying a 520-600 w psu

your thoughts?

since i went from evga its not much of a problem.

i paid 270 for this card (7950 gt) and i can pay the additional 230 for the gts will this improve my conditions?

will i have compatibility issues?

Also if i do overclock my cpu do i have enough cooling to handle that?

~Bane

First off you should have ordered 2x- 512 sticks so you could run dual channel.... If you are running 3 sticks you are not running dual channel and slowing down the processor 3-5% not much but every little helps. Your dell if you ordered 1 gig it most likely came with 2x- 512.
You have the 915 intel chip set so the only processors are
"Intel Pentium 4 processor 520, 530, 540, 550, 560, or 570 with HT Technology
Intel Pentium 4 that runs at 2.8, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, and 3.8 GHz internally and 800 MHz externally"
As for your 3Dmark06 score you are fine. It doesnt matter what your 3dmark score is, just as long as the games you play are working well.
Your 305watt power supply is more than likely not enough for an 8800gts.
I currently have a Dell 9100 with 3.4 D and a 7950gx2 with no problems. But that 8800 series uses more power.

First off, yes you can cancel an order from Tiger. Second your benchmarks are fine for the system that you have. Right now the P4 is going to be your bottleneck. I would go to a Core 2 or an AMD X2 before i went with an 8800 card. Vacular is right. The way your memory is set up you need to get 2 sticks of 512mb ram.