Asus M11BB - looking to upgrade graphics performance

[DOAJones]

This is not a gaming computer and i am only looking for decent graphics on the low end games like Plants Vs Zombies, Zuma, and the like. Right now the graphics are not even up to this simple task.

Asus F2A55-M/M11BB/DP_MB - Motherboard
AMD A10-6700 - APU
ASU16D3LU1KBG/8G - 8Gb ram single dimm so single channel at 800MHz with CL11 PC3-12800
Integrated AMD Radeon HD8670D graphics with no dedicated vram so operating as same 800MHz as the single channel ram.
Crappy power supply labeled as 350W peak but with two +12V rails at 13 amps each for a total of 216W on the +12VDC and 286W total when not including the -12V or the +5Vsb

Question: Would getting a matched DIMM set so I can run the memory in dual channel mode help significantly? Should I get a better power supply and new graphics card and simply disable the onboard graphics? Is it worth getting a AMD card and running dual graphic with the APU?

My guess would be to upgrade the power supply, get a low end graphics card (prefer Nvidia), and forget about the memory or dual graphics and just move on.

Any recommendations for a decent low end video card for low end gaming?

 

[Gingerbread]

Actually this GPU is supposed to actually fly, compared to most low end gpus. It should perform way, way better. And yes dual channel provides around 20% boost for integratd GPUs.

 

[DOAJones]

One of the issues is that there is no hardware acceleration available as an option - reported as not available with my video card. Recently upgraded windows 7 64-bit to windows 10 64-bit and the issue changed. With win7 I would get nasty frame stutter where the display would lock, jump ahead, lock and just get nasty jumpy but at least the display quality was good. Now I get crappy quality but reasonably smooth video. Not sure what I am doing wrong.

 

[DOAJones]

I found out the games do not play well with windows 10 so I went back to windows 7 and the quality improved but the stutter came back. I put some memory on order and will know how much that helps in a couple days.

ordered a 2x4Gb set of the corsair platinum ddr3 2133Mhz PC3-17000 memory. with a cas latency of 9 and in dual channel mode it should be a major improvement over the 800Hz single channel chip I have now with a cas latency of 11.

I'll let you know if it is a noticeable improvement.

 

[Rastadan2143]

One of the issues is that there is no hardware acceleration available as an option - reported as not available with my video card. Recently upgraded windows 7 64-bit to windows 10 64-bit and the issue changed. With win7 I would get nasty frame stutter where the display would lock, jump ahead, lock and just get nasty jumpy but at least the display quality was good. Now I get crappy quality but reasonably smooth video. Not sure what I am doing wrong.

well first I know what you are saying ,because I installed every operating system to see which runs best highest ratings and performed the best,and for this model computer they designed the built the computer with windows 8 as the Operating system ,and I have installed them all win 7 on up to windows 9 you may know it as windows 8.1 ,which is not the same as windows 8 ,my stock video card rates at 4178 mb....do this bro upgrade the ram to the full 32 gb and get quality ram buy it by the set go to am-zon and then you will be playing all games nice mine has win 8 pro 64 bit ,and plays all games without a problem,,,start with the correct operating system to get the best results and on that computer it is windows 8 64 bit NOT 8.1 ,,if you have any questions just ask

 

[Tsonta]

I have the same pc, and i added 2x8gb ram sticks (1866 Mhz). I am trying to setup dual grapgics option, which is possible says AMD. They recommend pairing with PCi card HD6680. Anything more than this card, dual inst worth. Go single card if you use a 2gb> card.

Memory will provide huge boost to games (even if you dont get a card).

Keep in mind 2 things:
1) in order for dual graphics to work, you must have 2x ram sticks, and not 1x stick.
2) In this motherboard we have, can handle 2133 mhz RAM frequency but will max jester 1600 unfortunately..., so no dual fraphic option...