Graphics Card Compatability Advice

Saruwatari

Howya's. I'm interested in getting into PC gaming and upgrading my graphics card - nothing too crazy, if I could play something like Red Orchestra 2 or S.T.A.L.K.E.R on some level I'd be happy, forget high-end BF3 or Crysis.

I've had the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT recommended to me previously and it's certainly within my price range, but could someone tell me if it'd be compatible with my system? And whether I'd need any other upgrades too, I know next to nothing about all this! Thanks in advance!

Here's my specs;

CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3200 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Speed: 2.4 GHz
CPU Cores: 2
Motherboard: PEGATRON CORPORATION Evans 1.02
TDP (Power): 65W
Graphics: Intel(R) G41 Express Chipset
RAM: 4.5GB
System Type: 64-bit OS
HD: 917GB

uberpixie

Power supply.....?

This a custom build or an oem off the shelf pc?

Saruwatari

Off the shelf jobby. Haven't checked the power supply yet I'm afraid, keep forgetting to - and I'm sure it doesn't make it any easier for ya, hahah.

uberpixie

Saruwatari wrote: »

Off the shelf jobby. Haven't checked the power supply yet I'm afraid, keep forgetting to - and I'm sure it doesn't make it any easier for ya, hahah.

Power supply is a big issue: the less watts you have to play with, the less powerful gfx card you can get.....

So if you can post up the specs listed on the side of the psu, you will get proper advice and less tears all round.

Saruwatari

uberpixie wrote: »

Power supply is a big issue: the less watts you have to play with, the less powerful gfx card you can get.....

So if you can post up the specs listed on the side of the psu, you will get proper advice and less tears all round.

Rightyo then, I'll get on that in the morning. Cheers!

Saruwatari

Okey-dokey, finally remembered to get around to finding out what the power is - turns out I have 300W, which sounds a little poor to me...

ShadowHearth

as long as you got pcie slot, i would not bother to go any higher then 6670. CPU is a real bottleneck there.