Hi,
I have a fairly new Dell Studio XPS 7100 and I was thinking about getting a new graphics card as I've been told by a local company store that it is bottle-necking my system. My primary interest for the graphics card is gaming--particularly starcraft 2. I can run the game on medium but I find it is optimal on low. I believe I have a 460 W power supply as googling my comp. model showed most XPS computers with that spec. I have an AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.8 GHz processor and I've been told that ATI cards will perform better with this rig.
With that provided, what would be an ideal graphics card under $150 that I could buy which would allow me to run SC2 in high or maybe even ultra graphics under current wattage and have it be safe? Is it essential to update the power supply with the graphics card? The computer is using the stock graphics card currently, which is an ATI Radeon HD 4200. Obviously Dell advertised this as excellent but I don't think it's that good and an upgrade might help.
Best,
Mo
I have a fairly new Dell Studio XPS 7100 and I was thinking about getting a new graphics card as I've been told by a local company store that it is bottle-necking my system. My primary interest for the graphics card is gaming--particularly starcraft 2. I can run the game on medium but I find it is optimal on low. I believe I have a 460 W power supply as googling my comp. model showed most XPS computers with that spec. I have an AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.8 GHz processor and I've been told that ATI cards will perform better with this rig.
With that provided, what would be an ideal graphics card under $150 that I could buy which would allow me to run SC2 in high or maybe even ultra graphics under current wattage and have it be safe? Is it essential to update the power supply with the graphics card? The computer is using the stock graphics card currently, which is an ATI Radeon HD 4200. Obviously Dell advertised this as excellent but I don't think it's that good and an upgrade might help.
Best,
Mo