Well what i am going to do is just start off with a pcie card that has no power connectors and see how they work. I am not someone who wants 60fps in game, so once i do get my new computer and if i can play timeshift, jericho, crysis and COD4,and other games at around 20-40fps at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 at low to high or medium to high then that would be that and i will be happy.
Thanks for the info!
Dear Tha General;
Any card that would give you these specs would require a fairly beefy PSU. The newer Nvidia cards such as the GT8400 and GT8500 would possibly function with a decent 300(iffy) to 350 watt PSU. Plus they won't likely give you the frame rates you're trying acheive. So, it's up to a 400 to 450 watt supply which would enable a GT8600 series card, which might. It doesn't seem sensible to me for a gamer to automatically limit himself this way. Every year, the games grow more demanding. So actually, the GT8800 series cards are what you should be considering. They eat PSUs for breakfast, and so be prepared to feed them heavily.
This thread is based on the idea that you think a different, higher set of performance parameters can be obtained by sheer force of will, or forensic discussion. Sadly, that just isn't the case. If great frame rates were available with stock video cards and 300 watt PSUs, then everybody would be doing it, don't ya think?
Second, the thread is still a jumble of different disparate concepts and computers.
If you want to buy or build a new computer, fine, we're glad to help you. But at least take some to time to correctly define the point and purpose of your objectives.
If you want to banter about your legacy machine, we're cool with that too. I just really doesn't quite make all the sense it could, talking about them both at once.
