Need video card for emachine el1352-07e for diablo 3 help

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Can anyone help me out I'm trying to play diablo 3 on my pc and need a new video card for my emachine el1352-07e . It's a pretty slim pc do Im in dire need of help .thank you
 
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I don't think you can safely put any discrete card in that system.

A 220W power supply is absolutely pitiful. That's about as small as they make them, and they do it both to cut costs and to prevent you from upgrading your computer (they make more money when you go through them for upgrades).

Putting your system specs into this PSU calculator gives me a minimum power of 178W, and a recommended of 228W. This means you're going to be maxing out the PSU pretty much at all times, which is going to stress it a great deal. Run the computer long enough (probably a few months to a year) and you're going to kill the power supply. Dying PSUs have a nasty habit of taking other components with them.

That system is nearly impossible to do any meaningful upgrades with. The eMachines are well known as some of the worst OEM computers ever made.

Sorry buddy, but any discrete video card you put in that system is going to carry a lot of risk with it. If you can replace the power supply with one about twice as powerful, that's the only way I'd ever recommend a video card upgrade.
 
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Did a quick search on eBay and your options are really limited. Found a 250W supply, which would safely handle the 6570, but it's ludicrously expensive at $105. My top of the line, SeaSonic X650 Gold (one of the best 650W PSUs on the planet) barely cost that much. Managed to find the same PSU on another site for $80, but that's still grossly overpriced.

Looks like people are exploiting people like you who are just trying to get a bit more life out of old computers by gouging on the PSU. These PSUs should cost, at most, a third of what they're asking, probably less. 250W supplies are dirt cheap.

The only way I could see you getting a new PSU for any kind of reasonable price would require that you leave the side panel off the case and just lay the PSU on top of it. All PSUs, even these crappy oddly shaped ones like you need, use the same connectors and produce the same voltages. Almost any old PSU will plug into your motherboard and power it, the question is only of whether or not you can actually attach it to your case, which isn't strictly necessary.

But again, this is not something I'd really recommend doing. It's unsightly, and if you're careless and bump into the case while the PSU is perched precariously, it could fall into the case and cause permanent damage to your motherboard. Your computer will also be louder, may run hotter (just as likely to run cooler actually), will collect more dust, and if you have a cat...
 
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The computer is already at close to a minimum draw. The DVD burner will pull around 25 watts when being used, and each hard drive is around 8-10 watts, and you can only improve on that by going with an SSD. Each USB device also draws a bit of power (my calculations were for 4 active USB devices).

220W is just a ridiculously low amount of power.
 
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ok i just wanted to tell you that i have the same computer and thinking of buying that card can you tell me if that card worked on your computer
 
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hey guys signed up just for this cause i have the same problem. Dycegamez please let us know if that works cause ill buy one my self. For the rest of you though i have an ATI radeon HD4650 now its not low profile but lets say i could get it to fit could my pc run this? I have the same one as Dycegamez
 
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Did you recieve it if yes please reply and also tell me if it worked.
 
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Yes it is because of the power supply it is using more watts then you thought. Does anyone over here know a graphics card that will use a lot less watts the the Nvidia 430 GT?
 
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Dycegames bought the graphics card and installed it. It kept freezing as he said is their a solution to this or do you know of any other graphics card that use less watts then the GT 430?
 
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Im sorry i meant to say that the ati 5570 takes more watts then you thought. You will need to find a graphics card that will use less then watts then this card.
 
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I dont know if that going to fit. the computer psu is very slim and there is barely enough space to put that one in. Are you sure its going to fit.
 
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