rextar Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 Hi guys could do with some help here im running an intel i5 with 6gb of ram on a hd5450 ati Lastest drivers but only getting 11fps!!! Many thx Intel i5 3.2 ghz 8 GB crucial ram gtx 660 superclocked 2gb 500watt corsair psu win7 64bit extreme pro track ir5 Turtle beach x12
sobek Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 (edited) Sorry m8 but that card is not meant for playing games, it has very low performance. It is merely a multimedia graphics card. If you want to play current games, you should at least get something along the lines of a hd57xx or better. What's the specifics of your CPU? Edited March 4, 2011 by sobek Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
rextar Posted March 4, 2011 Author Posted March 4, 2011 Oh noooo!! Come on guys Sys is dell xps 8100 i5 650 3.2ghz 6gb ddr3 Intel i5 3.2 ghz 8 GB crucial ram gtx 660 superclocked 2gb 500watt corsair psu win7 64bit extreme pro track ir5 Turtle beach x12
sobek Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 CPU is ok-ish, i guess, but that g/c is seriously slow. Even my old hd4850 would blow that card away by a large margin. Sorry. :( Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
rextar Posted March 4, 2011 Author Posted March 4, 2011 Ok point taken sobek, any ideas what i can upgrade to? Psu might be a problem as its 350w Intel i5 3.2 ghz 8 GB crucial ram gtx 660 superclocked 2gb 500watt corsair psu win7 64bit extreme pro track ir5 Turtle beach x12
sobek Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 That depends a lot on how much you are willing to spend and what resolution you like to play at. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives!
EtherealN Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 That definitely might be a problem, but to be honest you should switch it out anyway. You want your PSU working at 50% capacity unless you enjoy paying high electricity bills. (PSU's are most efficient at 50% load, and many - especially cheaper ones - are atrociously inefficient when close to max load. You'll make the money back on your electricity bill.) As for what to upgrade to, depends I guess. I'm mainly a "green-team" guy so I cannot recommend an ATi/AMD card. (Don't know them well enough to give good advice.) For nVidia I'd say something like 460 or 560. A lot depends on budget and how much space you have in your computer chassis though - most graphics cards intended for gaming are HUGE. (My GTX560 is not a "top-line" card, and even that is 23cm long, 11cm deep and takes up two PCI-slots.) Looking at your model on the Dell site gives some cause for worry, but depending on HDD-bay design inside of it you might still be fine. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
rextar Posted March 4, 2011 Author Posted March 4, 2011 Yeah i do have plenty of room in case,im going to stick with ati Are the lastest gpus not so power hungry? Intel i5 3.2 ghz 8 GB crucial ram gtx 660 superclocked 2gb 500watt corsair psu win7 64bit extreme pro track ir5 Turtle beach x12
EtherealN Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 They're not as bad as they were for a while (die shrink has helped), but you will still need a better PSU. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Daniel "EtherealN" Agorander | Даниэль "эфирныйн" Агорандер Intel i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz, ASUS Sabertooth P67, 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz, ASUS GTX 560Ti DirectCU II 1GB, Samsung 830series 512GB SSD, Corsair AX850w, two BENQ screens and TM HOTAS Warthog DCS: A-10C Warthog FAQ | DCS: P-51D FAQ | Remember to read the Forum Rules | | | Life of a Game Tester
rextar Posted March 4, 2011 Author Posted March 4, 2011 Disregard thread im taking unit back Im getting 40fps on a p4!! Dell sucks. Intel i5 3.2 ghz 8 GB crucial ram gtx 660 superclocked 2gb 500watt corsair psu win7 64bit extreme pro track ir5 Turtle beach x12
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