Cant play games need help please

[igodofwari]

Hello,
i have been having this problem for a long time now i just put a ati radeon 5450 hd 1 gig card in i have 6 gig of ram and quad core what could be the problem please help

 

[HostileDonut]

I am not 100% sure because my pc's are all custom built by me, but i am sure i have heard of oem boards been able to oc.

Well, I have never heard of that, so I wouldn't trust it. If you had done, that would be different. 😉

 

[igodofwari]

ok ill return the card and upgrade the psu hopefully that fixes thingsthank you all for your help

 

[HostileDonut]

Overhead...
Plus if he can oc he will need a good 500 watt and a decent gpu 😉

Well, if his system peaks at 300w, he adds another 50w for OC (max), then he would be just fine. 430w corsair would do that.

 

[HostileDonut]

ok ill return the card and upgrade the psu hopefully that fixes thingsthank you all for your help

Cool, tell us what you get and if it works for ya!

 

[HostileDonut]

I was thinking along the lines of higher oc (3GHZ) =handle bigger card 😉

Well, I was saying even with a bigger card, it would peak at 300w. 110w pull from a hd6850, 150w pull from an OC CPU, (maybe 175w), plus the rest of his system would be around 330-340w

 

[igodofwari]

just a quick question should i put my 3450 radeon 256 mb card back in or would this one run games better than that

 

[FlintIronStagg]

ima +1 the corsair 500w, but honestly for his system a 6790 would be great for the games he wants to play and balance his system well, esp because he doesnt have the ability to OC.

 

[HostileDonut]

just a quick question should i put my 3450 radeon 256 mb card back in or would this one run games better than that

Well, the hd5450 is 2 generations better than the hd3450. Notice, hd3450 and hd5450. They are each 450 series, just one is a hd3450 and one is a hd5450. That is how AMD works, the 1000 part is the generation, and the next three digits tell the performance of the card basically. Until the 6 series, performance kept improving, but then they changed. But that way to find out how much performance the card will have and the generation still stands.