Ferret Posted August 3, 2011 Member ID: 859 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 681 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 10 Achievement Points: 4117 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2014 Birthday: 11/04/1968 Share Posted August 3, 2011 I was thinking about getting Crysis2 or BlackOps..... would my rig run it? Dell DX4850 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383241,00.asp Core i5 Processor 6 GB memory Intel GMA HD "on-board" graphics card This rig runs COD2 on high graphic settings like a champ, but struggles with COD4, even on low graph settings.... playable, but not good. My brother got me a sweet Radeon grahpics card for it, but later found out (after a catastrophe) that the power supply is too wimpy to run the card. I read on the above review, that that it is a decent rig, but the power supply is a "vagina". It hung up Windows 7 TOTALLY after card installation (wound up having to "re-image" the whole !*@$!*@#$&% hard drive ) . Even after taking the new card out, it wouldn't boot. I don't know much about video cards/ hardware, and a little afraid to try to put in another power supply for the new card & having to re-do my whole damned hard drive again..... what a pain in the fargin' ass. Question - could I run Crysis2 or BlackOps on a playable level with this current rig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbart Posted August 3, 2011 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Go to www.canyourunit.com and check the game you want to run it will tell you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NightmareXI Posted August 3, 2011 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Edit... I am a idiot today....omg its not a big deal to install a new psu.... what kind of card did you try ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted August 3, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1073 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8436 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7295 Achievement Points: 74932 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 10 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Android Share Posted August 3, 2011 Your PC is actually pretty good for day to day stuff but lacks sufficient power and graphics if you want to get into some heavier gaming. I would check the physical dimensions of your current PSU and see what you can find to fit that case that is of higher wattage that can support a decent graphics card suitable for the newer games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
sabreeyes Posted August 3, 2011 Member ID: 1642 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 22 Topic Count: 72 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 900 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 241 Achievement Points: 6952 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/05/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 3, 2016 Birthday: 07/30/1958 Share Posted August 3, 2011 the best advice I can give you Ferret, is get the oldest card for the worst lagg, so just before you slice my thorat i can kill you. lmao, just kidding bro. I have a Radeon hd 6870, and it only requires a 500 watt, all though I paid more for the 900 watt, you should be able to fit at least a 600 watt in that case. you should have no problems with the hard drive just replacing the PSU. NewEgg 650 watt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171052 hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 859 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 681 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 10 Achievement Points: 4117 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2014 Birthday: 11/04/1968 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 The card I have is a Radeon 5750. From what I understand, a decent mid-level card that *should* run most games OK. Certianly a lot better than the factory on-board card in there now. The 5750 card requires 450 W for a one-pin connector, the pc has like 275 available. *REALLY* not wanting to load up everything again if it freezes Win7 up again..... if I did get a better power supply, would it be a problem to run that card with the on-board factory card that is in there now? (would they run parallel or should I shut the old one off?) Again, I'm not a hardware techie, but I think my processor is plenty fast enough but being held hostage by an average card. Thanks for help, my friends..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleTooT Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 113 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 19 Topic Count: 156 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1295 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 207 Achievement Points: 8353 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 17, 2018 Birthday: 07/11/1969 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Not sure but if you have the onboard card enabled it might over ride the PCI-E one, seek help from bigger geeks, I am only a semi-nerd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
RD Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 2520 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 50 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 627 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 48 Achievement Points: 3748 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/23/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16, 2018 Birthday: 08/18/1953 Share Posted August 4, 2011 I just did a dell for a friend with exact same issues as you. It was a slim line and one could not "easily" put in a 450-500watt PS due to space availability..... so I simply moved motherboard and drives to a used Dell standard tower.......bought a 500W power supply from newgg for $22.00 and a ATI 6670 for 84.95 and PRESTO.....works like a charm. All you need is a power supply and you'll pay more at Dell for the same supply fyi. Best of luck with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareXI Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Share Posted August 4, 2011 the 5750 will be enough to run the actual games on low maybe even some medium settings... like Merlin said have a look at the dimensions of the old psu and go for a 500 watts that will be enough.... and disable the onboard after that not to cause trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Ferret Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 859 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 681 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 10 Achievement Points: 4117 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2014 Birthday: 11/04/1968 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 NightmareXI the 5750 will be enough to run the actual games on low maybe even some medium settings... like Merlin said have a look at the dimensions of the old psu and go for a 500 watts that will be enough.... and disable the onboard after that not to cause trouble Just to be sure I understand.... I *should* disable the on-board card if I put the new card in? My brother said the same thing, but the guy at Geek Squad (when we tried to recover my old system image) said that disabling on-board cards will mess up my "driver hierarchy" (or something along those lines) and bug out the OS - and that I should let them run in parallel. The Geek Squad guy seemd to know what he was talking about, but I dunno. Sorry to be Mr. 50 questions.... but I am NOT a techie and all I want to do is play games without having to get a degree in computer science or pay someone $150 to plug in a card & load a driver or two. Thanks for help, much appreciated!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabreeyes Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 1642 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 22 Topic Count: 72 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 900 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 241 Achievement Points: 6952 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/05/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 3, 2016 Birthday: 07/30/1958 Share Posted August 4, 2011 I have mine off and never had a problem. dont want it to cause problems for my video card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabreeyes Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 1642 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 22 Topic Count: 72 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 900 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 241 Achievement Points: 6952 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/05/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 3, 2016 Birthday: 07/30/1958 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Damn if you have been playing with onboard vid, hate to see you with a good card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 859 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 681 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 10 Achievement Points: 4117 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2014 Birthday: 11/04/1968 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 sabreeyes Damn if you have been playing with onboard vid, hate to see you with a good card Haven't been on COD4 too much lately, the screen-flicker gives me epileptic siezures (not really, but a headache anyway).... but you have motivated to tough it out & come back more often & give you some "Ferret-love". Hopefully a better card will let me sprint more without running into walls all the time lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfTiS Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 1130 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 28 Topic Count: 216 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2267 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 586 Achievement Points: 17291 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 12, 2021 Birthday: 04/02/1948 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Turn of the onboard video if you put in another card and most of the Geek Squad people don't know shit. I have had to fix problems for friends that had the Geek Squad work on their PC's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
sabreeyes Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 1642 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 22 Topic Count: 72 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 900 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 241 Achievement Points: 6952 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/05/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 3, 2016 Birthday: 07/30/1958 Share Posted August 4, 2011 lol basturd, I think i am going to start using clamors. Sorry bud you are still going to stick to jambs, little twigs and pebbles lmao thats Cod for ya. also Ferret you might want to wait on C2 for a bit and see how it goes. save yourself 60$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris4874 Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 2491 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 37 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 354 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2140 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/11/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 04/20/1961 Share Posted August 4, 2011 WolfTiS Turn of the onboard video if you put in another card and most of the Geek Squad people don't know shit. I have had to fix problems for friends that had the Geek Squad work on their PC's. my two pennies worth? turn off the onboard card otherwise you wil get a hardware conflict [plain english both cards attempting to do the same job] i think thats why they always advise guys to use a driver sweep program to dump the old drivers[again this is what i have found for me, but then again i have had two burnouts fooling around with the old "whats this do ? lol] as for you buying another card, as victim of your game play on cod 4 my advise is too save for a really good card about 6/9 years will be enough time for me too have moved on to cod 17 [by that stage you will be using light sabres not knives] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PigDog Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 222 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 88 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3846 Content Per Day: 0.72 Reputation: 1626 Achievement Points: 25628 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 24 Birthday: 02/05/1968 Device: Windows Share Posted August 4, 2011 Turning off the onboard card will not cause you any problems. I have mine turned off and I would bet most of us that have good video cards have the onboard graphics turned off. You turn off the on-board graphics in your BIOS, just in case you didn't know. It is pretty easy to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NightmareXI Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Ferret NightmareXI the 5750 will be enough to run the actual games on low maybe even some medium settings... like Merlin said have a look at the dimensions of the old psu and go for a 500 watts that will be enough.... and disable the onboard after that not to cause trouble Just to be sure I understand.... I *should* disable the on-board card if I put the new card in? My brother said the same thing, but the guy at Geek Squad (when we tried to recover my old system image) said that disabling on-board cards will mess up my "driver hierarchy" (or something along those lines) and bug out the OS - and that I should let them run in parallel. The Geek Squad guy seemd to know what he was talking about, but I dunno. Sorry to be Mr. 50 questions.... but I am NOT a techie and all I want to do is play games without having to get a degree in computer science or pay someone $150 to plug in a card & load a driver or two. Thanks for help, much appreciated!! I would disable the onboard after the sys is up and running with the new card...drivers installed and everything is working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Ferret Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 859 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 681 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 10 Achievement Points: 4117 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2014 Birthday: 11/04/1968 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 WolfTiS Turn of the onboard video if you put in another card and most of the Geek Squad people don't know shit. I have had to fix problems for friends that had the Geek Squad work on their PC's. Thought that might be the case.... but with my level of computer expertise, talking to those Geek Squad guys I feel like a soccer Mom getting told by a shady car repair shop that "you need to fix the hyper-drive, and put in a new flux capacitor & we can do that for a mere $3,500". They haven't got a dime from me yet, and they ain't gonna. Thanks for the advice though fellas, my brother is going to put the new power supply & card in next week, wish me luck... but THIS time I am going to have it backed-up properly & update the image disks, so I don't have to go through THAT farkin' nightmare again. CHEERS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfTiS Posted August 4, 2011 Member ID: 1130 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 28 Topic Count: 216 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2267 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 586 Achievement Points: 17291 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 12, 2021 Birthday: 04/02/1948 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Ferret WolfTiS Turn of the onboard video if you put in another card and most of the Geek Squad people don't know shit. I have had to fix problems for friends that had the Geek Squad work on their PC's. Thought that might be the case.... but with my level of computer expertise, talking to those Geek Squad guys I feel like a soccer Mom getting told by a shady car repair shop that "you need to fix the hyper-drive, and put in a new flux capacitor & we can do that for a mere $3,500". They haven't got a dime from me yet, and they ain't gonna. Thanks for the advice though fellas, my brother is going to put the new power supply & card in next week, wish me luck... but THIS time I am going to have it backed-up properly & update the image disks, so I don't have to go through THAT farkin' nightmare again. CHEERS! Good luck Ferret but you shouldn't have any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GMoney Posted August 5, 2011 Member ID: 1735 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 24 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 142 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 9, 2012 Birthday: 06/29/1963 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I agree with Nightmare on the get it stable first. GMoney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kswift420 Posted August 5, 2011 Member ID: 1071 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 22 Topic Count: 30 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 879 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 261 Achievement Points: 5414 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 5, 2017 Birthday: 12/29/1974 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Ferret WolfTiS we can do that for a mere $3,500". (SHIT YA CAN BUILD A BAD ASS RIG FOR 800 BUCKS!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kswift420 Posted August 5, 2011 Member ID: 1071 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 22 Topic Count: 30 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 879 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 261 Achievement Points: 5414 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 5, 2017 Birthday: 12/29/1974 Share Posted August 5, 2011 http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=2Zo&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=700+watt+power+supply&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1611&bih=673&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=12741551036747084413&sa=X&ei=jjk7TsDAMo66tgf5g4j-Ag&ved=0CI8BEOUNMAA 700wATT POWER SUPPLY http://www.amazon.com/Acer-S211HL-21-5-Inch-Widescreen-Ultra-Slim/dp/B003U4IROY MONITOR 21.5 INCH 240-mb 180-processor 65-ram 80-power 130-monitor = 695 BUCKS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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