GPU for HP, and how did you come up with it?

[psuryan]

Hi all,

I recently purchased a HP Pavilion P6741c from Woot. I would like to get a graphics card to be able to play some more recent games, and I believe the most intensive game that I am interested in would be Just Cause 2 or Empires, total war. If I can do a lot better that this with my setup, let me know.

Here is a link to the computer specs from HP, so you know what I have.

HP p6741c


So, I am know I need a new power supply to start with.

What I would like to know is what kind of graphics card would work best for this computer. It has a PCIe 1.0 x16 as far as I can tell. Are there cards out there that have surpassed this speed yet, or will any card not have a significant fps loss?

The resolution will be 1920 x 1080

I will plan on spending up 200 on the GPU, so, what is the best I can get for that.

What if I had a 500 dollar budget, could I really do much better? Not that I would, just a theoretical question.


I have been reading lots of posts about choosing a GPU, but I am still confused on how to figure what will be best. I know you can cause a bottleneck, but how do you tell where it will be? Is there any way to really find the fps loss for PCIe 1.0 vs 2.0 or 2.1? If you can spare the time, could you please give a brief explanation on how you came up with this?

Thanks in advance

PSURyan

 

[rolli59]

What is your monitor resolution? $200 will get you GTX560TI or HD6950 1GB after MIR.
There is no loss over the different PCIe versions until you hit dual GPU cards. (You have 2.0 slots like most boards on the market)

 

[12345690]

Hi all,

I recently purchased a HP Pavilion P6741c from Woot. I would like to get a graphics card to be able to play some more recent games, and I believe the most intensive game that I am interested in would be Just Cause 2 or Empires, total war. If I can do a lot better that this with my setup, let me know.

Here is a link to the computer specs from HP, so you know what I have.

HP p6741c


So, I am know I need a new power supply to start with.

What I would like to know is what kind of graphics card would work best for this computer. It has a PCIe 1.0 x16 as far as I can tell. Are there cards out there that have surpassed this speed yet, or will any card not have a significant fps loss?

The resolution will be 1920 x 1080

I will plan on spending up 200 on the GPU, so, what is the best I can get for that.

What if I had a 500 dollar budget, could I really do much better? Not that I would, just a theoretical question.


I have been reading lots of posts about choosing a GPU, but I am still confused on how to figure what will be best. I know you can cause a bottleneck, but how do you tell where it will be? Is there any way to really find the fps loss for PCIe 1.0 vs 2.0 or 2.1? If you can spare the time, could you please give a brief explanation on how you came up with this?

Thanks in advance

PSURyan

your pc only has a 250W psu so that has to go, here's a really cheap corsair 500W psu
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139027&Tpk=500%20watt%20power%20supply%20corsair
as for a graphics card i would def, recommend the GTX 560TI
here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139027&Tpk=500%20watt%20power%20supply%20corsair

 

[psuryan]

Thanks,

The card recommends a 500 watt power supply, any reason I should get a bigger one, or by recommending 500, is that going to be just fine?

And how can you tell I have PCIe 2.0? I know that is the current standard, but I cannot find anywhere to confirm, and know that unless it is labeled as such, it is usually 1.0

Thanks again

 

[12345690]

np, but remember that when a card says it needs 500W it doesn't mean it draws that much wattage, a 560 draws about 170W full load, but if you're worried about your pc that much you could do 550W, but Corsair makes some really good psus that sometimes surpass the 500W mark and supply more, as for the PCIe problem all PCIe versions are cross compatible with each other the catch is that a PCIe 2.0 is faster than if you put a card in a PCIe 1.0 slot, get it? the most recent the PCIe version is the faster the card should perform

 

[psuryan]

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