I didn't know they still made the 8800GT. Good deal probably. Hopefully you got a decent PSU with it.
don't go for anything too over the top, if you have a widescreen LCD, your fps will top out at 60 personally, i hated playing FPS games at 60 frames, i need 99
I just checked and the Dell Vostro has a PSU: [regular ATX12V power supply] Will that run the 8800GT?
I think they're talking about the PciExpress 6 pin adapter. Does your power supply come with one or will you be using the adapter that comes with the video card. I had 2 8800GT's before and they run on a normal 500watt power supply.
That means nothing. I am sure they will upgrade the PSU when upgrading the Video. If not, return it. No big deal.
"they" is me. The point is to see if the card will run on my computer without having to swap out the power supply. I'd rather not return it. I guess I'll just check when I get home from work. But I think it should work either way, I was reading that the GT series is very power efficient, and doboyz said he was running two on a 500W just fine.
alright, problem number 1 is that you have a dell. problem 2 is that you know not much about computers the 4770's all sold out within a few weeks online at 100 bucks. you can find them in stores for 135ish. Uprising: do you have the element S case? the description of the fan placement sounds exactly like mine yobod: you have to find out the wattage on the power supply, if you're getting a card that is powered by the bus you are plugging in to (yours probably is, i have a 9500gt and it doesn't have an external power connector) you should be fine in regards to power. HOWEVER: your computer will not be able to support 4 gbs of ram fully if it is not running a 64 bit operating system... also, did you make sure that you can upgrade to 4 gigs? you might only have 2 slots available for ram, which means you need 2 2gb sticks. edit: nevermind, looking at nvidia's website it says you need a 6pin and 8pin connector and a 400watt psu, so without looking at your system specs and taking into account previous dell's i've owned, chances are about 50/50 you can support the card
I have 4 slots for RAM, there are currently two 1GB sticks. If you have 4GB installed in your system. Windows is "seemingly" only allowing you to use 3 to 3.5GB when using 32bit This is because Windows is reserving 500MB (.5 GB) to 1GB of your 4GB to BOOT from and run necessary background services as well as your system devices (usb,etc). Thus, only 3-3.5GB is accesible by Windows and it's applications. Once you install Service Pack 1 for Vista, 4GB is fully detected. Which also means that I know more about computers than you do and that you throw like a girl.
you will need to get a new PSU if u want something even remotely decent for example, i have a stock HP desktop, when i purchased my geforce 8600, i made sure i purchased a PSU to go with it open your case up, read the label on the stock PSU, i am almost 100% certain, you'll need to upgrade, but the good news, it costs barely nothing, and you can most likely patchwork the PSU on your next system
4gb shows up but still isn't fully accessible by cod4. windows made it say 4gb eventually, so when people put 4gb in their computers they would stop getting pissed and asking questions and saying "omg vista sux buy a mac" one night of research on the internet =/= expert ...arguing on the internet... you bought a dell which only came equipped with onboard graphics. ultimately, you lose. ps. 1gb = 1024 mb, .5gb= 512mb
All he asked for advice and that he wanted to play a game on his dell. Yet you come in here and insult his computer, and his intelligence. Why not just offer help and guidance instead of being so smug about it.
