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Upgrading Video card what will work?

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Anonymous   08-17-2009 at 08:43:08 PM

I have a 1.86 ghz core 2 duo processor, 3gb ram, 650 psu and the motherboard uses PCI express 16 slot. Are there any limitations on what graphics card I can get as an upgrade. I am looking at nvidia geforce 250 gts or a nvidia geforce 275 gtx?

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outlw6669   08-17-2009 at 09:06:43 PM
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Nope, both of those cards should work just fine in your rig.

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zipzoomflyhigh   08-17-2009 at 09:20:14 PM
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They will work fine, but they will be severely bottlenecked by your slow processor speed. The processor will easily overclock to 3ghz on stock voltage, you should check into overclocking.

What are you entire system specs including motherboard make/ model/ chipset?
Ram?
What brand and model 650w psu?

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Anonymous   08-17-2009 at 09:31:39 PM
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I have 3 gb ddr2 ram(32 bit vista), the chipset is an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86, gateway brand computer. Not sure on the motherboard yet, but like I said it does have pci express slot. The psu brand is antec. I am not that knowledgeable about over clocking the cpu, I wouldn't know what to do or where to start.

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