As for now I am probably going to go for the Diamond X1550 --- Card and the 500W PSU for about 60bucks Thanks to everyone for helping... Now another problem Where can i find a bit cheaper 1GB ram stick for this computer? so i can get atleast 2 GB ram into it...
take your pick http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....And&Order=PRICE and again, you probably wouldn't need a new PSU. my system literally draws twice as much power as yours would and it's fine under a good 400W unit.
But Xelink for the new diamond --- 1550 you need atleast 420W powersupply... also I believe my computer uses some odd type of ram not ddr2 dont know which one it is an old Dell Dimension 8200
uhh that's bull----. I can assure you that card doesn't need atleast a 420W PSU. see that picture there? that's the PCI version of the card. It has no additional power connectors. That' means it gets all it's power from the PCI slot. As far as i know, PCI slots can't deliver past 25W worth of power. Which means that your x1550 would run at under 25W. That's usually well within the headroom of an OEM system. let's put it into perspective. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814121034 this card uses 5 fold the power ATLEAST. Note the 400W ranking. so basically the 420 ranking is BS, it's probably a typo of some sort in fact http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....n=x1550&x=0&y=0 no other x1550 even mentions power requirements. Really, they don't draw much power. ========= so 1.8Ghz P4- 60W 512 RAM - 20W 80GB at 7200 RPM - 12W CD Writer/Reader -15W(but only rarely) low end motherboard - 20-30W current video card/video solution <25W TOTAL ~150-170W what's you're changing to 1.8Ghz P4- 60W 512 RAM - 20W 80GB at 7200 RPM - 12W CD Writer/Reader -15W(but only rarely) low end motherboard - 20-30W x1550 <25W TOTAL ~150-170W then consider the fact that each component can never be 100% loaded simultaneously with the others. if you're CPUs @100%, the the board and RAM aren't doing much since they're not transferring much data to the CPU and vice versa. same applies system wide. again try it first. basically install card, install drivers, then run orthos and ATitool articfact scanner simultaneously and that should put more load on your system(and consequently the PSU) than is likely under 95+% of circumstances. and viola some searching nets http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductRevie...N82E16814102081 someone with a system that eats around 30-40W more running off an average quality 250W OEM PSU. trust me you'll be fine in this case.
ohh for your RAM. don't bother. your system uses RAMBUS RAM. most horribly overpriced garbage ever. did I mention it's overpriced? http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....n+RDRAM+(16bit) have a look. It's out of production and it's not getting any cheaper since there's around a 50$ licencing charge placed on it by RAMBUS. better/cheaper to buy a CPU/board combo on sale and new RAM. as for linking DDR2 RAM at first, force of habit, everything went to DDR in 2001 or so and then in 2004 or 2006 it went to DDR2(depending on if you went with intel or AMD) I'm used to linking to DDR2. as it is, DDr2 is soon to be replaced by DDR3.chances are my next system will be using DDR3.
ooh ok I know because I went to fry's and they said the same thing about it being stupidly overpriced! don't worry bro Probably this upgrade might not happen I am waiting for the intel prices to come back down a bit so i can probably then build a whole damn computer! Thanks again! Zain
Fry's is one of those stores where you either get a good deal or you get ripped off horribly. sometimes you can get good deals, I got a 7600GT for 73$ after rebate from fry's around 6 months ago. A week later, they were 160 w/o rebate. Today the cheapest I can find one is like $90
lol to that also I was wondering if I want to buy a premade computer.. where shall i go to get it? and what site is best if i just want to build / customize computer online dell? alienware? sony? toshiba? fujitsu? etc etc...
