|
which to pay attention more, Video Card or Rams?
|
|
|
BrokenDream
Newbie
|
1. April 2013 @ 07:27 |
Link to this message
|
I was wondering, I wanted to upgrade my comp a bit, I have friends that seem to drown me of the thought to try Skyrim but my comp isn't up the standards to play it really, ( plus I did like morrowind ) and ideally, I always wanted to try Dark Souls.
So here's my ordeal, I went to check out the minimum recommendation from System requirement lab: Can you run it, and it seem under the minimum, my ram was fine of the minimum of of 2.0 ram ( I have 3.8 ram to note ) but the video card which require 512MB dedicated video ram, it only give out 384MB
When I check under the recommended, it recommend that the ram should be 4.0, and my video card 1GB of ram ( the Pixel and Vertex shader is fine to note ).
So my question is, as a guy on a budget, should I buy and upgrade my video card, or ram?
As a additional question, is there a way to to force more dedicated video ram to the video card?
If it help, here is my specs:
Acer AspireX3400G AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 255 Processor
3.1 GHz Cpu speed
3.8 GB Ram
GeForce 9200 video card
(If anyone can recommend a good video card and a good price, I would very much appeciated it. )
|
|
Advertisement
|
|
|
|
|
ddp
Moderator
|
1. April 2013 @ 12:30 |
Link to this message
|
|
get a videocard as your pc has onboard video not a seperate videocard. also onboard video are low end versions compared to full blown videocards. what is your budget & what is the output wattage of your power supply?
|
|
BrokenDream
Newbie
|
1. April 2013 @ 13:27 |
Link to this message
|
|
My limit give or take is $100 - $300, I know their costly, but I don't want to go over the $300, ideally any money saving deal would just be helpful as long as the video card is powerful enough for some major games ^^;;.
As for the Output, I may be wrong about this since I'm not 100% sure, but checking inside the comp, the label say "Output continue Power 220W, 80 plus Bronze"
There is some additional thing on the label such like: +3.3V & +5V total output not exceed 80W
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 1. April 2013 @ 13:28
|
|
ddp
Moderator
|
1. April 2013 @ 13:53 |
Link to this message
|
|
|
|
BrokenDream
Newbie
|
1. April 2013 @ 14:17 |
Link to this message
|
|
Thats definitely the same comp.
|
|
ddp
Moderator
|
1. April 2013 @ 14:29 |
Link to this message
|
|
|
|
BrokenDream
Newbie
|
1. April 2013 @ 14:47 |
Link to this message
|
|
ok, I will do so, although it will take me awhile since ideally I don't know how to answer some of the calculations. ^^;;
|
|
ddp
Moderator
|
1. April 2013 @ 15:34 |
Link to this message
|
|
|
|
BrokenDream
Newbie
|
1. April 2013 @ 23:26 |
Link to this message
|
|
Thank you for the info, I would have been definitely lost on this part for awhile . ^^;;
Although I do have a question, how do I know which PSU would be advisable to buy and able to actually fit in my comp?
Edit: Err...., scratch that, now that I truly check my comp,A new PSU and probably Video card would be quite big to actually fit in this small computer case, this is becoming quite more complicated then I expected. XD
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 1. April 2013 @ 23:30
|
|
ddp
Moderator
|
1. April 2013 @ 23:37 |
Link to this message
|
|
that is why i use clone computers instead of namebrand computers as you can replace any part in a clone easily compared to some namebrands like yours. you might still be able use your current parts minus the psu in a new case thereby allowing you to upgrade whenever you want. can get a new case with psu for $80+ & still have money leftover for a new video card.
|
|
BrokenDream
Newbie
|
1. April 2013 @ 23:55 |
Link to this message
|
|
Sounds like a plan that I will have to do if I want this to work for me.
Question though, is there any computer case that you might suggest would be good to go for?
( I'm sorry for asking all these question, although I have some knowledge, I only know some minor to basic things of such trivia. ^^;; )
|
|
ddp
Moderator
|
2. April 2013 @ 11:32 |
Link to this message
|
|
look at the cases but get 1 that has 4x5.25" bays & at least 4+ 3.5" bays. if you have to then take your computer with you to see if the motherboard will fit to the mounting posts of the case.
|
|
BrokenDream
Newbie
|
4. April 2013 @ 09:19 |
Link to this message
|
|
Thank you very much ddp, I think for now I will take the time to do a bit of research on what component I need and invest a bit more money for the parts, I know it will take some time, but I do look forward to this nifty project.
|
|
Advertisement
|
|
|
|
ddp
Moderator
|
4. April 2013 @ 15:01 |
Link to this message
|
|
no problem.
|
