Hi,
My friend landed me 5 Dell GX280's (Pentium 4 651) And I was looking to upgrade them cheaply to put some life back into them. The current configs are:
CPU: Pentium 4 651 - 3.4Ghz - 2MB Cahce - 65nm - D0 stepping - 65W/64.4°C
RAM: 256MB DDR2 667 Ram (one dimm - one socket free.)
GPU: Onbuilt
GPU: 160W Dell Slim PSU
These Pentium CPU's run nice and cool, they use the 65nm tech on the D0 stepping, so very little watts are being used. I'm going to upgrade the RAM to 2x1GB DDR2 800Mhz Generic Ram /w heatsinks from ebay. (Dual Channel = Little gain... Which helps.)
But I'm stuck on the GPU. I need somthing that uses no more then 40W's (not to overload the PSU') that can handle basic tasks like HD video playback from YouTube, and basic gaming... Perhaps along the lines of CoD4 (1024x728 - Medium? No AA)
A few people I know are interested in these, and I suggest these are good for TV PC's (HTPC) And very light gaming. (CoD4 is not a demanding game.)
So what GPU would you suggest? It needs to be SFF, and somthing that a 160W PSU can handel. Somone suggested the 8400GS, and how it only needs 23W's (which is good) but I refused as that couldn't handle CoD4 on the lowests settings (I used to own one.)
thanks!
My friend landed me 5 Dell GX280's (Pentium 4 651) And I was looking to upgrade them cheaply to put some life back into them. The current configs are:
CPU: Pentium 4 651 - 3.4Ghz - 2MB Cahce - 65nm - D0 stepping - 65W/64.4°C
RAM: 256MB DDR2 667 Ram (one dimm - one socket free.)
GPU: Onbuilt
GPU: 160W Dell Slim PSU
These Pentium CPU's run nice and cool, they use the 65nm tech on the D0 stepping, so very little watts are being used. I'm going to upgrade the RAM to 2x1GB DDR2 800Mhz Generic Ram /w heatsinks from ebay. (Dual Channel = Little gain... Which helps.)
But I'm stuck on the GPU. I need somthing that uses no more then 40W's (not to overload the PSU') that can handle basic tasks like HD video playback from YouTube, and basic gaming... Perhaps along the lines of CoD4 (1024x728 - Medium? No AA)
A few people I know are interested in these, and I suggest these are good for TV PC's (HTPC) And very light gaming. (CoD4 is not a demanding game.)
So what GPU would you suggest? It needs to be SFF, and somthing that a 160W PSU can handel. Somone suggested the 8400GS, and how it only needs 23W's (which is good) but I refused as that couldn't handle CoD4 on the lowests settings (I used to own one.)
thanks!