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Upgrading my desktop...
billwill
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... and I am terribly afraid of screwing it up, ON TOP OF not having any knowledge about this whatsoever. So I was hoping the fine ladies and gents of Penny-Arcade could just tell me what I need to buy and what precautionary steps I would need to take while installing it.
I have like a four year old desktop computer at home. It has three gigs of RAM, an AMD Quadcore processor that is 2.20 GHz, and is running Windows 7. The graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT which, as I understand it, was even subpar when this darn thing came out. I'm just looking to upgrade the graphics card, but apparently I may need to upgrade the power supply to my computer as well so it could handle a more powerful card? How would I go about finding out info about the power supply to my computer and also upgrading it?
I'm looking to spend around $150 total. I may be willing to go a little higher. I just want to be able to play Dawn of Discovery and Empire: Total War at like medium settings (or hopefully above that?). What card/power supply should I get? And how would I go about installing it?
Thanks.
I have like a four year old desktop computer at home. It has three gigs of RAM, an AMD Quadcore processor that is 2.20 GHz, and is running Windows 7. The graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT which, as I understand it, was even subpar when this darn thing came out. I'm just looking to upgrade the graphics card, but apparently I may need to upgrade the power supply to my computer as well so it could handle a more powerful card? How would I go about finding out info about the power supply to my computer and also upgrading it?
I'm looking to spend around $150 total. I may be willing to go a little higher. I just want to be able to play Dawn of Discovery and Empire: Total War at like medium settings (or hopefully above that?). What card/power supply should I get? And how would I go about installing it?
Thanks.
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Probably the best place to ask. An entire thread dedicated to computer builds and upgrading.
http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-DL-DVI-I-SL-DVI-D-PCI-Express-100315L/dp/tech-data/B0047ZGIUK/ref=de_a_smtd
Any reason it wouldn't work? Also, I can't find how much power it needs, as I'm sure what I have now is inadequate.