I need help

[Victoria Zervas]

Okay, I have this Windows 7 Intel computer, and I'm desperate to play games on it, but I'm inept when it comes to computer hardware. I need someone to tell me EXACTLY what graphics card to use.

My specs are:

Processor: Intel Core 2 CPU 6300 @1.86GHz 1.87GHz
System type: 32-bit operating system

That's all that it says when I right click Computer and click Properties. If you need any more details, please let me know and I'll try to look for them.

 

[Saif Uv]

Which motherboard and power supply do you have??

 

[BeADev]

which motherboard do you have?

 

[Saif Uv]

which motherboard do you have?

if talking only about graphic card i'll prefer nvidia gtx 970
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-graphics-cards/#page-2
hope this help you out

No Offense to BeADev Here
But thats extremely foolish ! If you couple GTX 970 with e6300 then theres gonna be a huge bottleneck .

 

[BeADev]

which motherboard do you have?

if talking only about graphic card i'll prefer nvidia gtx 970
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-graphics-cards/#page-2
hope this help you out

Thats extremely stupid ! If you couple GTX 970 with e6300 then theres gonna be a huge bottleneck .

Thanks for telling ,
and letting me correct myself

 

[Saif Uv]

Well if she couples gtx 970 with that cpu then she wastes almost 70% of her money .i.e You shouldnt really mislead people if you dont know much.

 

[Saif Uv]

And you have no idea if her PSU and motherboard support this card !
the gtx 970 might just not even fit in her case
or her system might just go to pieces if she tries that so please dont mislead people!

 

[Saif Uv]

And BTW Victoria if this is exactly whats written in your computer properties [Processor: Intel Core 2 CPU 6300 @1.86GHz 1.87GHz]
Then your cpu is running at its 50% i.e core multi-processing is disabled in BIOS . You can double the performance of your CPU by Enabling core multi-processing in BIOS!

 

[Divyanshu Sah]

It would be better if you don't think of getting one graphics card.

 

[Saif Uv]

OP can if she has a good motherboard and chipset
but OP has gone unresponsive!

 

[Victoria Zervas]

With your help Saif Uv I managed to double my performance so thank you very much! However, I'm unsure as to how I can check my motherboard and power supply. How would I do that? Again, I'm a hardware noob so please forgive me.

 

[Saif Uv]

Hmmmm youre Welcomee!
you should try opening the case and see the brand of power supply and no of watts it supplies!
And You could install CPU-Z for checking the motherboard or type dxdiag in "RUN"
Lemme guess . You have a pre-built system ??
if yes then tell me the the name and model no of the system e.g DELL optiplex 745[guessing] ??