and an 8800 GTX is a far cry from a 4650 or 9600.
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Midrange card for WoW?
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and an 8800 GTX is a far cry from a 4650 or 9600.
I agree, just get the low profile HD4650 for $41 AR. Why waste more on a $150 system. It will let him enjoy WOW at nice enough settings and he can keep cost to a minimal.
Oh I know, I just assumed $100 was being used arbitrarly and $110 would be close enough to warrant a consideration.
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I can't seem to find any power supply requirements for this card ... will the 250W be enough to power it, along with the other components?
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/HD_4650_OC/24.html
The HD4650 is one of the lower powered dedicated GPUs. ATI probably recommends a 350w, but that doesn't mean much.
You will probably be fine. Really depends on if the PSU lives up to its rating.
The HD4650 is one of the lower powered dedicated GPUs. ATI probably recommends a 350w, but that doesn't mean much.
You will probably be fine. Really depends on if the PSU lives up to its rating.
My 3870 could max WoW at 1680x1050 cept for shadows. My 4870 added maybe 4 fps with medium shadows.
Going Pentium 4 --> i7 920 added 15 fps.
Going i7 920 @ 2.66ghz --> i7 920 @ 3.4ghz added 10 fps.
This game needs clock speed more than anything. I'm now at ~35-40 fps in Dalaran all maxed shadows at medium. Supposedly patch 3.2 is going to fix the coding on the shaders and make it run a lot better.
Going Pentium 4 --> i7 920 added 15 fps.
Going i7 920 @ 2.66ghz --> i7 920 @ 3.4ghz added 10 fps.
This game needs clock speed more than anything. I'm now at ~35-40 fps in Dalaran all maxed shadows at medium. Supposedly patch 3.2 is going to fix the coding on the shaders and make it run a lot better.
Remember, make sure you get what you want for WoW, you're gonna be staring at that screen 10+ hours a day for the rest of your life, so might as well treat your eyes a little.
hahaha, funny and true. For wow, I would just get that 9600 for $55 everyone seems to be linking. If he only paid $150 for the whole system, I think $100 for just the gpu is overkill. Plus most more powerful cards might not run on 250w psu
Wow thanks for the link. I have been searching for something like for the past week.
WoW is waaaaay more CPU dependant than GPU dependant. I upgraded from a 6600GT to a 260 core 216 and only saw a 2 or 3 fps increase. However when I went from an Athlon 3500 to a Phenom II 810 I saw about a 25- 50 fps increase (depending on where I was). Plus I was able to max out my video settings. Just some food for thought.