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Video Card upgrade?

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feverlax

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I am looking to upgrade my video card so that I can play COD: Black Ops and NFS: HP on higher graphical settings/have less lag (hopefully) in BO multiplayer. I'm looking to spend less than 100 dollars, but am also looking to buy the card used. I would prefer to be able to reuse my Accelero S1, but it's not a dealbreaker if I can't. Finally, I currently have an Antec EarthWatts EA380W PSU, are there any higher end GPU's that will be able to get by on this? I'm looking to minimize spending as much as possible.

My specs are as follows:
AMD Phenom II X3 710
PNY 9600GT w/Accelero
3GB DDR2
1x 320GB WD HDD
1x Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB drive.

edit: also, I'm running at 1680 x 1050

Any recommendations?
Thanks
 
hossdaddy said:
well you are asking a lot here. First off that psu is not going to power a lot. But, I will give it a try.

GIGABYTE GV-R485OC-1GH Radeon HD 4850 1GB $99.99
and it should take you cooler. But, if you can spend $100 then find a way to spend $119.99 and get this and be done with it.

PowerColor AX5770 1GBD5-H Radeon HD 5770 1GB $119.99 + fs

I am a little worried about that psu though.
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Thanks, I would definitely be willing to buy a new PSU if it's going to be a little iffy (I'd rather buy a new one then have it wreck my hardware). Would I be able to buy a used vid card and a decent PSU for under 150ish?
 
Is that X3 710 OC'd or not? If not, any plans to do so?

If only a small OC or no OC, you should be fine with the HD 5770 that hossdaddy posted with that PSU
 
Danny Bui said:
Is that X3 710 OC'd or not? If not, any plans to do so?

If only a small OC or no OC, you should be fine with the HD 5770 that hossdaddy posted with that PSU
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It's not overclocked at the moment, and if I do overclock in the future it won't be more than an extra .4 Ghz.

Would the 5770 work with some room to spare with the PSU or I would I not have enough power to add anything else (extra HDD's, etc).
 
feverlax said:
It's not overclocked at the moment, and if I do overclock in the future it won't be more than an extra .4 Ghz.

Would the 5770 work with some room to spare with the PSU or I would I not have enough power to add anything else (extra HDD's, etc).
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You would have only have about 80W to 90W leftover on the +12V rail after the small OC and the HD 5770. So enough room for a low power hard drive but that would be far as I would go considering that PSUs last longer the lower the load is on the PSU.
 
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