Looking for cheapy new graphics card.

sweetafton

My desktop PC is a few years old now, but it's held up well. The one craptastic feature is the graphics card, an onboard NVIDIA GeForce 7050/nForce 610i. I have trouble even running games from the humble bundle such as Aquaria and Penumbra. The PSU is a pitiful 250w so that would have to be replaced too.
I'm not really a "gamer" so what I was just looking for is a low-end dedicated graphics card and PSU to play WoW and the like.

Current specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @2.4GHZ
3gb ram
NVIDIA Geforce 7050

Any suggestions?

sweetafton

Hmmm, no answers. Guess I'll just go with a bargain-basement psu and cheap GPU This computer doesn't really deserve any better.

BostonB

You don't even give what slot you have available or if its full size.

Overheal

a system that old we have to know if it has AGP or PCIx.

It's old enough to where you are losing a lot of Euro-value upgrading that box, versus buying or building a new one. You could for instance hang on to the PSU for the moment and buy a new processor and motherboard with an upgrade onboard GPU to keep you afloat, which will leave you plenty of headroom to install a modern graphics card when you can afford it.

zilog_jones

Q6600 isn't that old, I doubt they were still selling boards with AGP slots by then (Intel's first Core 2 chipsets were definitely all PCIe), but does it have a 16x slot?

Overheal

from googling the socket and the onboard 7050 looks like a lot of motherboards on average had a pcix16 slot.

BostonB

I think the NVIDIA Geforce 7050 is on the motherboard. he may have no usuable slots.

Overheal

BostonB wrote: »

I think the NVIDIA Geforce 7050 is on the motherboard. he may have no usuable slots.

If its a really shyte motherboard. Otherwise it's the northbridge IGP and it should have a slot (that's what she said)

BostonB

Would it be a low profile case though?

Overheal

BostonB wrote: »

Would it be a low profile case though?

Not necessarily, unless stated by the OP. Plenty of slimlines vary in what size motherboard they use. We're selling a slimline HP model right now that uses a full size ATX board, and a Full Size compaq tower that has a mini-ATX board in it (and THAT is a crock of **** with no slots on it). So it completely depends. Either way there are plenty of low profile options out there for a PCI-x upgrade.

BostonB

Whats the best low profile gfx you can get.

Whats the slimline HP model?

Overheal

basically http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/series_can.do;HHOJSID=rxWkPCdG2hTKg32XyGJD12N3LhVT2QJ5nQX1lGxThx2GbdGCCpFh!530273712?storeName=computer_store&landing=desktops&a1=Category&v1=Slim+and+sleek&jumpid=in_R329_prodexp/hhoslp/psg/desktops/Slim_and_sleek

GPU hard to say i dont have a lot of anything in stock right now

BostonB

I didn't mean you personally, I meant if I went shopping for one for my own low profile system and wanted a GFX upgrade whats the best low profile gaming card you can get.

Last time I looked the consensus was all the low profile cards were pretty low end.

That doesn't look like a full sized ATX more like uATX.

TerrorFirmer

I was looking at this for something recently. The best I found was a LP GT430 for about 40-50 euro, it's by no means a stellar card but it's about 20 times faster than an integrated 7050, if you look at Guru3Ds review it holds up OK in Modern Warfare 2 (2, not 3, for reference) at 1920x1200 max settings, I doubt the 7050 would string together 800x600 at low settings, by comparison.

BostonB

Looks interesting alright.

http://www.guruht.com/2010/10/geforce-gt-430-vs-radeon-hd-5570-vs.html

Does it come with a half height back plane slot as the one in the review the back panel is full height.