heres the deal. im on a tight budget. so for christmas, im trying to get my parents to get me a new graphics card. i love COD4, and am hoping to love COD:mw2, as soon as i can get my hands on it. my only problem is that my current rig can only handle it on close to the lowest settings.
what i have now,
Pentium D 3.2ghz
2Gb corsair ram
Rio 3 motherboard
Asus X550 512mb graphics card
250 GB seagate HDD
all wrapped up in windows XP
what im hoping to get from my parents is this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.292676
its a XFX HD 4670 and a corsair 400 watt power supply ( i have a puny 250 watt ATM)
after getting all my hopes up for this, i discover that my MOBO is a PCI-e 1.0a, and the Graphics card i want to get is a 2.0. after putting many an hour into trying to figure out if it was compatible or not, i came to the conclusion that everyone online likes to confuse me. half of the things i read said that 2.0 is only backwards compatible with 1.1, while the other half say its fully backwards compatible with 1.0a.
so my question to you would be:
A. is the graphics card in question backwards compatible with a 1.0a PCI-e slot
B. if so, will the HD 4670 handle COD4 and COD:mw2 and make them look sexy? ( yes i know their the same engine)
C. if not, what are some good PCI-e 1.0a cards that could handle these two games?
thanks for all of your help and advice before hand,
Jon Loe
what i have now,
Pentium D 3.2ghz
2Gb corsair ram
Rio 3 motherboard
Asus X550 512mb graphics card
250 GB seagate HDD
all wrapped up in windows XP
what im hoping to get from my parents is this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.292676
its a XFX HD 4670 and a corsair 400 watt power supply ( i have a puny 250 watt ATM)
after getting all my hopes up for this, i discover that my MOBO is a PCI-e 1.0a, and the Graphics card i want to get is a 2.0. after putting many an hour into trying to figure out if it was compatible or not, i came to the conclusion that everyone online likes to confuse me. half of the things i read said that 2.0 is only backwards compatible with 1.1, while the other half say its fully backwards compatible with 1.0a.
so my question to you would be:
A. is the graphics card in question backwards compatible with a 1.0a PCI-e slot
B. if so, will the HD 4670 handle COD4 and COD:mw2 and make them look sexy? ( yes i know their the same engine)
C. if not, what are some good PCI-e 1.0a cards that could handle these two games?
thanks for all of your help and advice before hand,
Jon Loe