Dell E510 and radeon x1600

What's your PSU? I have a dell E520 setting around, and I upgraded the GPU of that to a 7600GT. Although I've heard it can handle the 7800GT and 9600GT just fine. (not sure about the 7950 since it requires extra power calbes)

The e520 has a 300watt PSU. What is your PSU?

the E510 comes with the same PSU as the E520.

Why the radeon X1600 xt? The card is rather old. You have a PCI-E x 16, get a 4650 or 4670 if you want to stay with ATI.

what exactly is the PSU though, like what does it mean/do and where inside would it most likely be.

what kind of adapter is that by any chance (like a power adapter that plugs in inside or is it like an adapter that means it can be pluged in to the slot, what should i be looking for... am currently looking at getting a Nvidia 8600GT 512MB DDR2 card would that need an adapter and also do you know if it would play Empire Total War

or you can simply check Dell's web site for specs

Power

DC power supply:

Wattage


305 W

Heat dissipation


1041 BTU/hr

Voltage (see the safety instructions in the Product Information Guide for important voltage setting information)


90 to 135 V and 180 to 265 V at 50/60 Hz

No, If I remember correctly the 8600GT doesn't need a PCIe power adapter.

For £10 it's not bad, it just wont play any new games reasonably. Older stuff like Half Life 2 and other games from 3-4 years ago will generally be playable on an 8600gt.

The bottom rung of real 'gaming' cards is the HD 4670 and that is gonna set you back £55 still. As cheap as graphics cards are getting, you still need to spend that sort of money at least if you want to game at any decent level with modern games. Anything less than a 4670 just won't cut it.

Yeh, 4650 minimum for playing recent games at 1280x1024 (no Crysis or Farcry2 though)...or maybe a 9500GT if it has DDR3

to continue have about £30 now to spend on the card. Also could anyone point me in the correct direction for finding a better PSU as mine is only 250w, was looking maybe for 400w or above, is that a good unit or would i need better if i was looking for a better graphics card in about 4/5 months
cheers

cheers, got the problem that my computer is a slimline one so only got about 90mm in width/ hight to play with.... both of these fit it i think but can you just confirm... it says 86mm height so am pretty sure.

was looking at this card but it says it needs 400watt or grater so was a bit annoyed when i found out mine was only 250watt, really low http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI [...] 0320608018

what delluser said, I did not know your PC was a slimline

I thought the E510 was a mini-tower. Are you sure this is not your case?
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ah, I mistook you for the OP. My fault.