im trying to upgrade my brothers old computer

[humanbacon88301]

the pc is a dell deimention4700 with a pentium (R) 4 cpu 2.80GHz with a 330 watt psu what graphics card should i get

 

[USAFRet]

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Question from humanbacon88301 : "trying to upgrading garbage pc"

im trying to upgrade brothers pc its win 7 with a pentium 4 and has a 330 watt psu

 

[USAFRet]

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Question from humanbacon88301 : "trying to upgrade my brothers pc"

my brothers pc has a win 7 pentium 4 with 330 watt psu im only trying to upgrade the GPU witch GPU should i get

Given that it is a Pentium 4. We'd need to know which Pentium 4 and what motherboard it has. If it is an OEM like Dell or HP. Which specific model number. So, don't just say Dell Opteron. We'd need to know something like Dell Opteron 390 MT. Also if the case is small form factor or mini tower.

Given it is a Pentium 4 it could use an AGP or PCIe slot. Some cheap models just had PCI slots.

As for upgrades. Any card would be used. You'd really be limited to mid 2000's games. Maybe some late 2000's.

 

[velocityg4]

Given the age of the computer. I'd just put something like a used GeForce GT 730 2GB (GDDR5 revision not DDR3) in there. It's much faster than any of the GPU of the era and uses a lot less power. So, no need for a new PSU. It should handle any game an old Pentium 4 can play.

 

[william p]

Here are the builds for that. Not much hope I'm afraid.
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-Dimension-4700/3487
The fastest P4 just equals the slowest Core2 Duo. A Dimension E520,9200, or Optiplex 745 can run P4 but also Core2 Quad Extremes. But the older chipsets won't support them. You coulld stick a GT730 or 750 in there, but it would be a waste mostly.

 

[zyh1987]

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Question from humanbacon88301 : "intel inside copatipilaty"

which graphics card is compatible with the intel inside pentium 4

you need to find the cpu and mobo from cpu-z. then let us know the model.

it's like an agp card or pci.

 

[rgd1101]

Please stick with 1 thread and not spam the forum

 

[DSzymborski]

Yup, no recommendation possible without knowing if this is an AGP or PCIe-slotted motherboard. If AGP, you can try and track down an old HD 4670 AGP, which I believe was the best GPU that used AGP, but I wouldn't invest much money in this. Simply put, you can refurbished rigs for $120 or so on Newegg that are far better than this PC. Unless there's something very specific that makes the PC interesting for a collecting, PCs age more like sandwiches than wine.

 

[Kisianik]

It has PCIE x16, the first generation.

The best source for upgrade information http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/332610-28-dell-dimension-4700-upgrades

Anything else I can help you with?