December 12, 200817 yr Alright, I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card to something with enough power to run WoW easily and have dual monitors. So It need enough power to run WoW AND several other tabs possibly including movies. I'm currently running Windows XP and I have a Dell Dimension E521. What do you recommend? EDIT: budget is $150 at the most, less would be preferred. monitor is VGA EDIT2: Do the monitors have to be identical? The monitor I have now isn't stocked by dell anymore. If I buy a new model with the same resolution will it work?
December 12, 200817 yr What is your budget? That should help us narrow it down. And what outputs do you need? (Are your monitors DVI or VGA?)
December 12, 200817 yr Author budget is $150 max. not sure about the monitors. where would I find that information?
December 12, 200817 yr budget is $150 max. not sure about the monitors. where would I find that information? Just look on the back of your monitor for the ports it should name them fore you. With DVI you can also use HDML with a converter.
December 12, 200817 yr Author I'm looking all over the Monitor and PC but theres no specification on anything. I think it might be VGA because theres a little box with two lines on my tower like there is in this wikipedia picture: But I'm not sure.
December 12, 200817 yr I'm looking all over the Monitor and PC but theres no specification on anything. I think it might be VGA because theres a little box with two lines on my tower like there is in this wikipedia picture: But I'm not sure. That is vga.
December 12, 200817 yr Alright then, I'll edit that into the first post. Is that the only port you have?
December 12, 200817 yr Author Alright then, I'll edit that into the first post. Is that the only port you have? Um, yes. Thats why I want a card with 2+ ports.
December 12, 200817 yr To answer the monitor question, no they don't have to be the same model. I am using a 22" widescreen and a 19" normal monitor with 2 different resolutions.
December 12, 200817 yr You could get a card with dvi ports and just buy the adapter which are fairly cheap. Also i would try to get the same monitor. It always looks better.
December 12, 200817 yr Author Alright. How much power would I need to run WoW and a few other windows comfortably?
December 12, 200817 yr Alright. How much power would I need to run WoW and a few other windows comfortably? Not much power for 07/08 computers. Anyways here's the guys comp: http://www.dell.com/content/products/pr ... l=en&s=dfh Accrding to WoW's reqs & the CPU in that machine: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2& ... odelmenu=1 I found that for $70. And for $30 more you get this from nVidia: http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.ph ... 99.243.390 Gf price/performance Nvidia. Though someone should confirm I'm not missing something totally obvious with these. >.> Though the one thing I couldn't find is the power needed for either card. So I don't know if the PSU will be able to handle dual monitor/graphics card(s). That's about as far as I'm gonna go with this. Sorry if I've screwed up somewhere.
December 13, 200817 yr Author One thing that concern me is that 512mb is the minimum requirement for WoW. Wouldn't running WoW and other stuff not work? Unless computer programs aren't cumulative. I'm a total newb to actual computery stuff, I just surf the web. Otherwise I like that one very much.
December 13, 200817 yr Thats graphics RAM, not normal RAM. WoW is nowhere near powerful enough to use 512mb of it. 32-64mb at most
December 13, 200817 yr Thats graphics RAM, not normal RAM. WoW is nowhere near powerful enough to use 512mb of it. 32-64mb at most I see where your coming from but keep in mind he will have to run it in window mode to do stuff on the other monitor.
December 13, 200817 yr Thats graphics RAM, not normal RAM. WoW is nowhere near powerful enough to use 512mb of it. 32-64mb at most I see where your coming from but keep in mind he will have to run it in window mode to do stuff on the other monitor. 512 video ram is still more than enough. [cabbage], I can run 2 or 3 copies of WoW at once with a 9600GT 512MB.
December 13, 200817 yr I only picked that card because it was the lowest one in price I could with dual DVI.
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