Graphics Card Question

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=39313

Although the 8400GS doesn't have a value listed on this chart, it's clear that it would be LOWER than the 8500 GT that requires 300 watts. That said, virtually ANY PSU being sold today should be fine... just don't go TOO generic.

Btw, the 8400GS will be a TERRIBLE gaming card if that's what you were thinking.

You should probably get and 7600gt.

It's slow. There are better cards for the same money or very little more. How much can you afford?

Here are some cards that offer good value for the price:
7600gt, x1950 Pro, X1950XT, 8800 GTS 320 MB, 8800 GTX

Yeah, that bites. You would probably be happy with a x1950Pro and a PSU that can handle it, but you'd need $200 or so...

Do you really think that it will support a 7600GS?

What kind of CPU do you have? Even if you replace the PSU and video card, if you got a horrible CPU it will hold everything back and your video card won't work as well as it can. Are we talking about a Pentium 3 here?

With 1.25 GB of ram.

if it is that old, then you're probably talking AGP, right?

He asked about the 8400GS, so I thought of PCI-E. If it's AGP I still like the x1950Pro but the AGP version costs $20 more

suvayanr, do you know if you have AGP or PCI-E, or the model of your current video card, or the model of your motherboard?

http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce8.html

Here. Check out the table at the bottom of the link... look at the difference in memory bandwidth. That's just PART of the story... the 8800 GTX and Ultra are the only two cards listed with 128 stream processors. You're down to 92 if you go with an 8800 GTS and all the way down to I believe 8 for the 8400 GS. From 128 to 8... that's a rather large drop don't you think? So in simple terms you'd be buying 1/16th of a 8800 GTX/Ultra.

Oh, their site did mention that the maximum power draw for an 8400 GS was 71 watts. I'd still avoid the card like the plague, but I did at least answer your initial question.

Motherboard name: ASUS P4GV-LA
CPU/Processor
Socket: 478
Intel Pentium4 3.0 GHZ processor


The computer does not have an AGP, but it has 3 pci slots.
Now that I look, it seems to only have PCI, not pci express.

I guess i could go with

Oh, no... Yeah, it only has PCI, no AGP, no PCI-E. Forget about the x1950Pro. At least you won't need a new PSU, the PCI cards consume little. The bad news is they also do little.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppo [...] cale=en_US

Just make sure you don't spend too much upgrading this computer, OK? It's time to start thinking about the next one, I think.

I know, I have another computer. It has a 2.4GHZ dual core, 2GB RAM, and a 8500GT graphics card, a 500GB HDD. So I'm set and don't need a new computer. I just want the video to have a decent quality, and not the crappy quality that it has now. So a 6200 would be a good choice for about $50 on newegg.