Poor man's upgrades

[jedijailer]

Hello,
My mother board is an ASUS A8N-LA, which has one PCI Express x16 slot. I was thinking about upgrading to a radeon hd 4670. Is this a decent upgrade, I know there is alot better but I'm a poor gamer, and will it work?

 

[iam2thecrowe]

tell us the rest of your specs. PSU (make and model), CPU, RAM. There may be no point puttin in a video card if you still wont be able to play games well, due to your other specs being poor.

 

[jedijailer]

ok,
Its a HP Pavilion a1483w, PSU is a BestTec model ATX -300-12z.
CPU is a Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz (thinking of getting a 4800+)
its got 2g of ram upgradeable to 4.

 

[holdingholder]

Well with that board the best cpu you could possibly have is a athlon 4800+ at 2.5 ghz, so I guess that card is about the best you can do before your cpu would start to hold you back.

 

[jedijailer]

So the radeon hd 4670 would work? ok, but do you think its a good match for that system, or is there a better one? I'm trying to get the best match for my money.

 

[acerace]

I think its good. Balance I should say. But, if you got the money, don't bother to upgrade your PC to more future proof.

 

[jedijailer]

thanks guys.

 

[caqde]

The only other card you might look at is a 5570 which if you are looking at newegg should be within $5 of a 4670 (5570 has 80 more shaders 400 vs 320 on the 4670 and it also gives you DX11 [not that it matters]) but it is a thought you shouldn't be paying more than $55 for either of these cards. As a thought for your next upgrade I would go for a decent PSU and Case (your front panel will likely not support a Retail motherboard at least I haven't seen an OEM case that did).

 

[jeffredo]

An HD 6670 is the best you can get for that weak of a power supply. It actually uses less power than an HD 4670 (which would work as well). As long as the card doesn't need an external power connector you'll be fine.

 

[king smp]

I agree that the HD 6670 is good choice on budget

question - do you have full size (7 in) or half size case (3.5in)?

you might need low profile card (half height)



A HD 4670 is a little stronger than a HD 4650

this was my HD 4650 playing Crysis Warhead at 1920x1080 Gamer setting
keep in mind that the recording process robbed some FPS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxf0Xz0s0RQ

so yes a HD 4670 will play most games @ medium settings at 1920x1080
even the newest games will run at reduced resolutions and graphic details

 

[bdizzle11]

I had a very similar computer and put a 4670 in it. It worked great until I could finally build my own rig. Runs all source games at max and handles games like mw2 and others very easily.

 

[jedijailer]

Best answer selected by jedijailer.

 

[king smp]

Thank you very much for selecting me as Best Answer
Please dont be a stranger

 

[jedijailer]

No problem, and thanks, I wont.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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