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blotchyprune · 06-01-2011, 10:38

Hi all,

I was real lucky the other day and got given a old pc work, it aint half bad either i'll give you the specs.

It's a HP Pavillion
Windows Vista
Motherboard - asus NARRA3
Processor - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
3Gb DDR2
360Gb HD

Only things is it only has on board graphics, now this is the first PCI-E (2 x PCI-E X1 and 1 x PCI-E X16) comp I've had....I looking for help in which GFX i should get, i'm thinking anything to high end will bottleneck at the athlon 4400, either that or i get a cpu upgrade. I think the best one i can get is a AMD Phenom X4 9600+ which dont seem to be that pricey.

I not too sure about a few things so any opinions would be great, Thanks.

06-01-2011, 10:38	#1
blotchyprune cf.addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 154	new graphics card Hi all, I was real lucky the other day and got given a old pc work, it aint half bad either i'll give you the specs. It's a HP Pavillion Windows Vista Motherboard - asus NARRA3 Processor - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 3Gb DDR2 360Gb HD Only things is it only has on board graphics, now this is the first PCI-E (2 x PCI-E X1 and 1 x PCI-E X16) comp I've had....I looking for help in which GFX i should get, i'm thinking anything to high end will bottleneck at the athlon 4400, either that or i get a cpu upgrade. I think the best one i can get is a AMD Phenom X4 9600+ which dont seem to be that pricey. I not too sure about a few things so any opinions would be great, Thanks.