Need help people

[Shikhar1]

Hello guys just joined the forums today so hello to everyone

So i have a Dell Inspiron 560s and the specs are
4gb ram-Hynix ddr3(2x2gb)
graphics card-ati radeon hd 4350 512mb
psu-i dont know (never cared)
motherboard-default dell 0k83v0

So my question is i want to add another graphics card for crossfire so do you guys have any suggestions also i f you happen to know or even if you dont know the default psu of inspiron 560s tell me a good psu for it

and yes cooling fans dont have compatibility issues right(if this is a dumb question forgive me)

thanx in advance

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Welcome to the forums.

Now for the bad news. You only have a single PCI-E slot on your motherboard so you can only run a single graphics card at a time. No Crossfire supported.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/insp560st/en/cs/cs_en.pdf

You have a 250w power supply so pretty much any graphics card upgrades you do will require a new power supply.

You have an old LGA 775 system so we need to know what processor you have to tell you the best graphics card for you.

 

[Shikhar1]

Welcome to the forums.

Now for the bad news. You only have a single PCI-E slot on your motherboard so you can only run a single graphics card at a time. No Crossfire supported.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/insp560st/en/cs/cs_en.pdf

You have a 250w power supply so pretty much any graphics card upgrades you do will require a new power supply.

You have an old LGA 775 system so we need to know what processor you have to tell you the best graphics card for you.

thanx a lot for the quick reply I appreciate your help a lot.Thank you

 

[Shikhar1]

Uh.... one more thing are you aware of any motherboards supported by my shitty cpu tower because i have enuff money to buy one graphics card AND a cheap or moderately expensive motherboard(cheap but not too shitty) also ram isnt a problem because very soon i will upgrade it to 8 gb cos i have(or will get) 2 kingston 2 gb rams

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Why would you get a new motherboard? If you want to spend money on your system you need to be looking at a new power supply and a decent graphics card.

What CPU do you have? We need to know to tell you waht a good graphics upgrade would be. You do not want to create a huge bottleneck with an overpowered graphics card on a slow CPU or vise versa.

It is almost always better to use a single more powerful graphics card than to run Crossfire/Sli. You just need to write off that 4350 if you want to do any decent gaming. It's crap even in Crossfire.

What is your monitor resolution? That is important as well when choosing a new GPU.

 

[Vettedude]

If you are serious about upgrading, do what I did to my Studio 540s (almost same thing as yours). I bought an new case, PSU, and an HD 6850. (I have a Core 2 Quad though so I'm not bottlenecked with a good GPU)

 

[Shikhar1]

Why would you get a new motherboard? If you want to spend money on your system you need to be looking at a new power supply and a decent graphics card.

What CPU do you have? We need to know to tell you waht a good graphics upgrade would be. You do not want to create a huge bottleneck with an overpowered graphics card on a slow CPU or vise versa.

It is almost always better to use a single more powerful graphics card than to run Crossfire/Sli. You just need to write off that 4350 if you want to do any decent gaming. It's crap even in Crossfire.

What is your monitor resolution? That is important as well when choosing a new GPU.

by cpu do you mean the tower well then its the default small case that comes with the inspiron 560 also thank you for shedding light on the MOBO topic and are you aware of any good cases or towers that the default motherboard(ok83v0)would support.
Expecting help from you lol

 

[Shikhar1]

If you are serious about upgrading, do what I did to my Studio 540s (almost same thing as yours). I bought an new case, PSU, and an HD 6850. (I have a Core 2 Quad though so I'm not bottlenecked with a good GPU)

Dude can you tell me a good tower that he motherboard(0k83v0) would fit in also a good psu suggestion would be not only be appreciated but worshipped

 

[Shikhar1]

If you are serious about upgrading, do what I did to my Studio 540s (almost same thing as yours). I bought an new case, PSU, and an HD 6850. (I have a Core 2 Quad though so I'm not bottlenecked with a good GPU)

also if by cpu you mean the processor it is the default one that comes with the inspiron 560s

 

[Shikhar1]

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[Vettedude]

Any tower that support MicroATX boards (almost all cases) and any ATX12v PSU would work

 

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