Its old lol

[xJayymassacrex]

well i gave my friend a intel pentium d 820 with a intel mobo and 4gbs of ram it has window7 64bit on the 160gb hdd well the question is if he buys a petium d 945 and a better gpu could he game on it honestly i know nothing about intel lol thanks

 

[satyamdubey]

yes smithfield cpu's are old and power hungry. Most post 2008 games recommend using a Core2 cpu from Intel or an equivalent phenom/athlon. The cpu will be a bottleneck for mid- upper range cards but I think it will be able to push a low range entry level card like a 6670.

 

[xJayymassacrex]

yes smithfield cpu's are old and power hungry. Most post 2008 games recommend using a Core2 cpu from Intel or an equivalent phenom/athlon. The cpu will be a bottleneck for mid- upper range cards but I think it will be able to push a low range entry level card like a 6670.

well what about a Galaxy GeForce GT 610 GC 1 GB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 DVI/HDMI/VGA Graphics Card would that work lol i dont understand pci slots can a ddr3 fit in a ddr2 2.0 slot please explain thanks

 

[melikepie]

A 610 is VERY weak, like the CPU. It's not worth trying. Trust me, you wont ever be able to play anything new on that. What games would he even plan on playing? Also there is no such thing as a DDR2 2.0. DDR3 and DDR2 use 2 different slots, only buy what's compatible with your motherboard. And as far as PCIe goes, the newer the PCIe version, the double the bandwidth. PCIe 1.0 has 256MB, 2.0 has 512MB, and 3.0 has 1024MB. And they work at the lowest version. Like if you have a PCIe 1.0 motherboard and a 2.0 graphics card it will run at 1.0 speeds, and if you had a 1.0 graphics card and a 3.0 motherboard (why would anybody do that?) it would run at 1.0 speeds, but if you had a 2.0 motherboard and a 2.0 graphics card it would run at 2.0 speeds.

 

[logainofhades]

The 610 is not a gaming card. It is an HTPC card, nothing more.