Old pc -which graphic card to buy ??

[fz8975]

I have an PC with motherboard

ASUS P5GZ-MX

Processor : Intel Dual Core 3.0GHz

Which Graphic card to buy to play current games ??

OR Should I replace my MotherBoard ??

[Tenida]

Yes your motherboard have pcie x16 slot.But what's your budget?You can buy current generation gf card

also what smps u r using?

[fz8975]

Only Installing a high end GPU will be able to run games like NFS Hot Pursiut, COD :Black Ops ?????

I mean that Don't I need to upgrade my processor ??

My budget is around Rs. 8000-Rs.10000


SMPS-It came with my cabinet Mercury ATX 400W

Thanks for the reply

[ashikns]

The SMPS is gonna be a problem if you buy a reasonably good graphics card.So you will have to include the price of smps in your budget

[Tenida]

First of all u have to change the smps.
NO, buying high card will not give you performance boost because ur cpu is weeker than high end gpu.so you will not gain good fps in games.But low end graphics will perform good with ur system.so i will suggest
Sapphire hd 6670 1gb ddr5 -rs 6k
FSP saga 500 watt smps- rs 2k

[fz8975]

Thanks for the advice ....

One more Question

Is Sapphire a good brand and what warranty it gives ???

(Since I am not going to upgrade my Desktop for a long time )

[Tenida]

Yeah good brand.It gives 3years warranty.MSI also good brand to choose

[fz8975]

Thanks yaar ....

BTW can you recommend Full HD Monitors

[Tenida]

Yes but whats ur budget?

Best budget lcd moniter
benq g2222 hda@rs7.2k

[fz8975]

Oh sorry didn't specify the Budget

Its 9k max...

Benq g2222 screen size is ??

[Tenida]

Its 22 inch Full-HD lcd.Go for it.

[Sam]

@fz8975, can you post the full spec of your PC? less ram will cause problem as your proccy is already too slow to handle most modern games. games will run but may get bottlenecked by most cards.

also if you are into HD gaming, time for a full upgrade.

[obhi]

Why do you guys think CPU and GPU will clash at all.
I have been using ATI 5770 + a dual core cpu for a long time running games at max settings with 4x MSAA without any problems.
Infact I am into game development and from my knowledge, with a good GPU supporting shader model 5+ (which only the latest releases are using anyway) you can always get good performance because the fill rate + Shader processing is bound fully to the GPU and games are not entirely CPU bound.
If you get NVdia, you get PhysX which also solves the issue of Physics processing in the CPU.. so I dont see any problem with an old CPU. The cpu you mentioned has SSE 3 I reckon and even the most recent games are not written for (above) SSE 3 (although that will change). So vector processing in the ALU will not improve if you get a better processor as no programs will use it.
All developers build their program with compatibility in their mind and the do not push boundaries abruptly.
It will change however.
So, I recommend you get a performance graphics card like ATI HD 6800+. It will be more future proof.