Dual Pd Pc
Help Finding a Compatible Graphics Card?
I need to find a graphics card that is compatible with my computer and with the games I want to play. Can anyone link me something from www.amazon.co.uk ?
My computer:
http://www.littlewoods.com/zoostorm-celeron-dual-core-185in-desktop-pc---1tb/706733931.prd?cmtag=o&_requestid=96735&prdToken=/p/prod6219910-sku9941896&browseToken=/q/pr863
Games I want to play:
World of Warcraft>Graphics Card Compatibility Page-
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_GB&articleId=19669&parentCategoryId&pageNumber=1&categoryId=2094
Dragon Age: Origins-
http://eastore.ea.com/store/eaemea/en_GB/pd/productID.208591800/sac.true
Dragon Age 2-
http://dragonage.bioware.com/da2/info/faq/
(System reqs are there, just scroll down a bit to around question 4)
Plus, If there is anything else I need to play these games please say.
http://www.zoostorm.com/Products/30-zoostorm-3371-2341-economy-home-pc.aspx
Is that your computer?
The link you provided gives very little info on the specs of the computer and the manufacturersite also has no accessable user-support to speak of other then the possibility to contact technical support. In other words customer service for this computer sucks.
Benchmarkresults for your cpu can be found here:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/mid_range_cpus.html
This is better then the minimum required cpu for dragon age 2 but a lot weaker then the recommended cpu. The cpu should be good enough though to play dragon age 2.
1 Gb of memory combined with windows 7 is to little to play dragon age 2, you would need to upgrade the memory to lets say 2Gb.
Benchmark results of the minimum required card for dragon age 2 can be found here:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/mid_range_gpus.html
you would need to find a card with at least a bit higher benchmarkvalues that is compatible with the videocard interfaceslot of your motherboard and with the powersupply of your computer.
Let's asume your motherboard has an pci-e x16 slot (dunno) then a card like this:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/sapphire-ati-radeon-hd-4350-pci-e-graphics-card-03758021-pdt.html
would do for dragon age 2, but not at the highest settings, certainly not with your already meager system-specs. (you can find benchmarkresults of this chipset on the same page as the results of the minimum requirements card, and it's a bit better)
Above card (radeon hd 4350) needs at least a 300 watt powersupply. The big question is: does your computer have a good enough powersupply to support the card? If the powersupply in your computer has standard dimensions (the casing makes me think it has) you might be able to replace it with a better one.
But, as i said, the mentioned card needs a pci-e x16 slot, so first check out if your computer has one. Overhere is a freeware utility that might help you find this out:
http://www.freewarefiles.com/MiTeC-System-Information-X_program_55143.html
Maybe it can tell if you have that slot directly (dunno) or maybe it can give you the modelname of the motherboard so that you might have a chance of finding it's specs online. You also might try to determine the type of slot visually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express although this would be kinda hard for an unexperianced person.
You could write a message to technical support asking if the card i mentioned is supported by the powersupply/computer/interfaceslot. When so all you would need to play dragon age 2 (probably not very smoothly) would be this card for 35 pounds and 1 gig of extra memory.
To upgrade the memory it's handy to first know what u have: the number of memory banks, the number of memory modules and their size. The mitec system info utility i mentioned earlier can probably tell you that. The type of memory should be ddr2 (IF the specs i mentioned in the first link are correct) and the speed 800Mhz. The problem is though that you don't know the maximum total memory supported by the motherboard and the maximum module size supported. This memory isnt'all to expensive though so you might take the gamble:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/integral-pc2-6400-ddr2-800-dimm-ram-memory-module-1gb-09641830-pdt.html
If you need a new powersupply and if a standard one would fit this might be something:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/jeantech-400w-atx-power-supply-unit-07929913-pdt.html
These kind of cheap low-end powersupplies may be a risky investment also but at least they are cheap, and the wattage of 400 watt (although wattage is often exagerated) should be enough.
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