Upgrading Video Card Help!

Yea but those look like 2 DVIs I have one Vga going into my card and another VGA On a VGA-DVI converter going into the DVI one on my card. Those look like two dvi's. ( Disregard I see that it comes with two converters anyways. )

 

I should really check the picture that says whats all included before posting. So this thing will run high end games? The only game I am really looking to be playing is D3 which isnt all that high graphics need but just wandering how far will this go in games? Excuse the dumb question just want to make sure on everything this has most recent ver. of shader right?

And on a side not please excuse my earlier post a couple days ago. I think I might have edited it before anyone saw but anyways I was being an ass. You've been so much help, I really don't know what I would have done without you

 

They say that card will run under 300 watts and requires no auxiliary power.

Under your circumstances, without upgrading your PSU, that is about the best card you can get.

Good price too.

Here are other reviews:

EVGA 01G-P3-N945-LR GeForce 9400 GT 1GB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 - Google Search

 

Here is the EVGA page:

EVGA | Products

 

·Digital Vibrance Control™ (DVC) Technology
·NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology
·NVIDIA® GigaThread™ Technology
·Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Shader Model 4.0 Support
·True 128-Bit Floating Point High Dynamic-Range (HDR)
·PCI Express® 1.1 Support
·NVIDIA® CUDA™ Support
·NVIDIA® PhysX™ Ready
·NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD Technology
·OpenGL® 3.0 Support
·Unified Shader Architecture
·NVIDIA® Lumenex™ Engine

http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/01G-P3-N945.pdf

 

So is this the best I can get I'm looking at some reviews on it and there not great. The card itself is good but I want something that can handle better, is this really the only thing my crappy power supply will offer? I just wish some people put it what games they played with it. So far all I've seen is WoW with medium settings even though I can run WoW now with low settings and my video card is baaaaad, it just doesn't add up to me.

 

For a more powerful card you need PCI_E 6 pin leads and 500 watts.

These cards will be a bit more as well @ $100 and the PSU would run @ $100 more e.g.

Newegg.com - Thermaltake TR2 RX W0134RU 550W ATX12V Ver2.2 SLI Ready Modular Passive PFC PFC Power Supply - Power Supplies


We can look at other cards to fit your current hardware but I doubt we will find much better then that EVGA model.

It is actually quite powerful considering its limitations.

 

You said something about no auxiliary power right? Can I use that to get a higher wattage.

 

You said something about no auxiliary power right? Can I use that to get a higher wattage.

 

What I meant by "auxiliary power" is that most upper end graphics cards require PCI_E 6 or 8 pin leads from the PSU.

Some require multiple combinations.

In general only a PSU rated @ 500 watts or more will have these leads.

Again if I get the time I will look further but I still see that EVGA card as about the best your current PSU can handle.

 

So what will the card run speaking games?

 

I think it will.

It is the highest end Nvidia card your PSU will run and I see no ATI cards that compare to it at its level.

 

You think it will run games XD I meant like what but I'm pretty sure that answer gives me the impression you don't know, no big deal.

 

I was not familiar with XD

games XD - Google Search

But it appears to be streaming media which should pose no problems to that card.

For what it is that card being a 9400 series is a very advanced GPU and very high G-RAM.

The fact that it runs under a limited PSU makes it a good fit unless you want to upgrade the PSU as well.

Also good price.

 

No wow I said what will it run speaking games....... You said yea I think it will. I meant specifically speaking how far in games will it go. Like my video card runs like nothing others can run like CoD. And this is a face XD tilt your head and use your imagination . Its the wow did he just say that face. Ok maybe I shoulda done this inch:

 

Well I guess I am at an end point as I can only reiterate that to go beyond that card you need a new PSU as well.

However I do think the card we are talking about will be a vast upgrade to your current system.

 

Yea but jeez I don't even know any other way of putting it. I don't want to know if it can run games thats painfully obvious that it will. But based on its specs can this video card run something like Call of Duty 4 or something? It'd be like bad video card Super mario cart XD Good video card Crysis. Get it? I just want to know what I'll be able to run.

 

I'd say it will run any game at least at the lowest level.

Crysis probably won't run above the lowest level.

As to particular games try to Google them such as:

call of duty 4 system requirements pc - Google Search

Video card: 3.0 Shader Support recommended. Nvidia Geforce 7800 or better or ATI Radeon X1800 or better

Clearly the 9400 is better than the 7800

 

Alright long time no see. Just thought I would post back to tell you whats going on after getting that card. I can't run crysis on even the lowest settings? Is my computer Jesus? Performing miracles and what not? Even though it seems like a crappy computer? I run Crysis on normal/high settings ( Some things medium some things high ) So yea anyways.