Hello, Hi. I bought a standard version of dell's inspiron 580s. It sucks for gaming because of its terrible Radeon hd 5450 1gb ddr3 that it comes with. the processor is decent, an i3 at 3.2 ghz 4gb RAM but the radeon HD 5450 really makes all my games have fps issues even at lowest settings(and these are OLD games). I want to be able to play battlefield 3, skyrim, batman arkham city,guild wars 2, modern warfare 3, ghost recon future soldier and black ops 2 when they come out all in maxed out 1080p , so i need a better graphics card. What would meet all my needs? Also, since im no expert, will i need to change things like the power supply or change cooling fans and things like that when i change the gpu or are those things unaffected by a change in graphics card?
one more thing in yahoo answers i found this
"Because you got the slimline model (ending in s) you cannot upgrade to any serious gaming cards.
Slimlines have 3 major disadvantages compared to regular tower desktops.
1) The narrow chassis only accepts low-profile graphics cards. There aren't any high-end graphics cards available in low-profile.
2) They have physically smaller, lower wattage proprietary power supplies. You can't simply buy a standard ATX power supply made by Antec, Corsair, OCZ or Silverstone to replace your factory psu... only small power supplies made specifically for your specific slimline model will fit, and frequently those aren't available in high enough wattage to be useful.
3) The smaller chassis is terrible for airflow and cooling, so overheating problems are common, especially when any standalone graphics card is installed."
is that true 🙁 ? Thanks.
PD: i like the radeon hd 7850 2gb ddr5 OC EDITION but i dont know if will be able to run in my inspiron 580s
mi mobo its a dell inc 0c2kjt
one more thing in yahoo answers i found this
"Because you got the slimline model (ending in s) you cannot upgrade to any serious gaming cards.
Slimlines have 3 major disadvantages compared to regular tower desktops.
1) The narrow chassis only accepts low-profile graphics cards. There aren't any high-end graphics cards available in low-profile.
2) They have physically smaller, lower wattage proprietary power supplies. You can't simply buy a standard ATX power supply made by Antec, Corsair, OCZ or Silverstone to replace your factory psu... only small power supplies made specifically for your specific slimline model will fit, and frequently those aren't available in high enough wattage to be useful.
3) The smaller chassis is terrible for airflow and cooling, so overheating problems are common, especially when any standalone graphics card is installed."
is that true 🙁 ? Thanks.
PD: i like the radeon hd 7850 2gb ddr5 OC EDITION but i dont know if will be able to run in my inspiron 580s
mi mobo its a dell inc 0c2kjt
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