Please Recommend me a Grpahics card for my requirements

[Fullmetalx]

Need graphics card by next week

Screen res: 1440x900
PSU-380 Watts (antec)
System-http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/ho/WF06b/12132708-12133156-12133158-12133158-12133158-80230663-80443628.html

Games: Will basically be plying WOW/Starcraft

Want at least 50 frames on high-ultra

I currently have a gt220 running on a 200 watt psu which gives me a low to medium quality on WOW but the psu gets loud.

Please recommend me the best card for my requirements. Thanks!

 

[Fullmetalx]

ive been looking at some graphics cards and was wondering if i should get a 1gb gddr5 or just stick with 512 mb

 

[jjb8675309]

what is your budget? what are your full system specs?

 

[jjb8675309]

not knowing much other than your screen res...(bc the link you provided does not work) I would suggest getting a 6850 or at least a 5770, starcraft and wow are more cpu demanding so knowing your full system specs is important, your expectations may be set a bit too high if you have a weak cpu

 

[k1114]

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/ho/WF06b/12132708-12133156-12133158-12133158-12133158-80230663-80443628.html

The link he provided works just fine. And with your specs with the 380w psu you mentioned, I'd recommend a 5670. Anything higher will be bottlenecked by your cpu. With that res, all you would need it 512mb. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102871

 

[Fullmetalx]

Thanks for the suggestion but i noticed that a gddr3 1gb 5670 by HIS is cheaper than 512 mb gddr5. so should i go for the gddr5 or 1gb gddr3?

 

[iam2thecrowe]

the max gpu you could run from that 380w PSU would be a ATI6850 or nvidia gtx460. However your performance will be severely limited by your slow old CPU. You are better off upgrading cpu/motherboard first, you will see improvements from that alone. The fastest card I would put in would be a GT240, but you wont see much improvement without upgrading CPU.. NVIDIA cards work better with the games you mentioned.

 

[Fullmetalx]

^thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately i wont be able to buy/upgrade cpu for a while. do you know if i should go with a 1gb gddr3 or 512mb gddr5

 

[k1114]

Here's a 1gb ddr5 for $60. http://www.amazon.com/VisionTek-Radeon-Express-Graphics-900310/dp/B003CXWM58/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1307675323&sr=1-6

 

[Fullmetalx]

^Thanks! Just bought it

 

[Fullmetalx]

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