Hi, I'm upgrading my GT220, and I have a budget of approximately 125 quid.
I would like a new card to run WoW at higher settings. I currently run it at 1680x1050 on "good" settings with no anti-aliasing. I would like to run it at "ultra" settings with anti-aliasing, if possible. I don't really play any other games, I've just never been able to run it as well as I would like. I ran GPU-Z while playing and saw my GPU at max usage, but the memory usage only 0.4/1GB, but I don't know the significance of this. My CPU would be around 20-40%.
My other system specs are intel Q6600 quad core cpu, 4GB of 1066MHz RAM, and an ASUS P5n32-e SLI mobo. I have a 400W PSU supply as well, which seems fine for my GT220 and everything else (I also have a Radeon X300 in there as well for a second monitor, the reason is wow seems to run better when the second monitor is running off a second card).
I only wish to purchase an Nvidia card as well, which leads me to my next question: is it possible to link the GT220 and a higher end card with SLI together? Or something like that?
A big plus for a quiet card as well, or at least something with a fan that makes a nice, low frequency hummm instead of the high frequency whirrrrr, but this is a minor point.
I'm in the UK, I have no preferred retailer, but it would nice to pick it up at PC world this weekend!
Thanks for any help!
I would like a new card to run WoW at higher settings. I currently run it at 1680x1050 on "good" settings with no anti-aliasing. I would like to run it at "ultra" settings with anti-aliasing, if possible. I don't really play any other games, I've just never been able to run it as well as I would like. I ran GPU-Z while playing and saw my GPU at max usage, but the memory usage only 0.4/1GB, but I don't know the significance of this. My CPU would be around 20-40%.
My other system specs are intel Q6600 quad core cpu, 4GB of 1066MHz RAM, and an ASUS P5n32-e SLI mobo. I have a 400W PSU supply as well, which seems fine for my GT220 and everything else (I also have a Radeon X300 in there as well for a second monitor, the reason is wow seems to run better when the second monitor is running off a second card).
I only wish to purchase an Nvidia card as well, which leads me to my next question: is it possible to link the GT220 and a higher end card with SLI together? Or something like that?
A big plus for a quiet card as well, or at least something with a fan that makes a nice, low frequency hummm instead of the high frequency whirrrrr, but this is a minor point.
I'm in the UK, I have no preferred retailer, but it would nice to pick it up at PC world this weekend!
Thanks for any help!