Hey everyone! This is my first THW post, hope this is the right place to put it.
I just received a Dell 4700 from a friend didn't need any more.
I was preparing to spend $600-700 on a decent sized upgrade
but with the PCI-E slot on this dell I figured why not
save my self a couple hundred for the time being and hold off
on upgrading for a year or so. With DX11, W7 even PCI-E 3.0
hopefully showing up in my year's time frame I figured this
wasn't a horrible idea.
Dell 4700
Pentium 4 HT 3.2ghz 1mb L2 cache - 800Mhz FSB
OCZ StealthXtreme 700w psu
OCZ Platinum DDR 800 4x1gb
XP Pro & Vista 32-bit Home premium
Now what I'd like to know is, with the limitations of my CPU
What is the right/best video card I could really
Originally I was looking at a 260 (216) or a 4870, but
with my CPU I won't be able to reap the benefits of
such cards (because of the bottleneck), right?
So then I started going down from there
and I've started looking at the 9800 GTX+ with prices as low
as 130-40 after a mail in rebate & the 4850 which you can find for
130 on New Egg right now. Could my CPU even grasp either of
these cards? What do you think would be the best solution?
I'd like to keep it under 170 and with a game bundle (FarCry2, COD4, ect. )
if possible.
Thanks,
BioPenguin
EDIT: Thought I might add that I'm gaming on a samsung 20 inch monitor either at 1280 x 1024 or 1600x1400. Thanks again.
I just received a Dell 4700 from a friend didn't need any more.
I was preparing to spend $600-700 on a decent sized upgrade
but with the PCI-E slot on this dell I figured why not
save my self a couple hundred for the time being and hold off
on upgrading for a year or so. With DX11, W7 even PCI-E 3.0
hopefully showing up in my year's time frame I figured this
wasn't a horrible idea.
Dell 4700
Pentium 4 HT 3.2ghz 1mb L2 cache - 800Mhz FSB
OCZ StealthXtreme 700w psu
OCZ Platinum DDR 800 4x1gb
XP Pro & Vista 32-bit Home premium
Now what I'd like to know is, with the limitations of my CPU
What is the right/best video card I could really
Originally I was looking at a 260 (216) or a 4870, but
with my CPU I won't be able to reap the benefits of
such cards (because of the bottleneck), right?
So then I started going down from there
and I've started looking at the 9800 GTX+ with prices as low
as 130-40 after a mail in rebate & the 4850 which you can find for
130 on New Egg right now. Could my CPU even grasp either of
these cards? What do you think would be the best solution?
I'd like to keep it under 170 and with a game bundle (FarCry2, COD4, ect. )
if possible.
Thanks,
BioPenguin
EDIT: Thought I might add that I'm gaming on a samsung 20 inch monitor either at 1280 x 1024 or 1600x1400. Thanks again.