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Is A GeForce 280 GTX compatible with my computer?
Visage:
--- Quote from: Starcraftman on December 01, 2009, 10:01:12 PM ---From what OneWithFire said in his posts, I'm pretty sure he did not by the GTX 280 yet. Also, the GT 220 IS a PCIe graphics card, which means technically he could get a GTX 280, even though it would be a extremely handicapped idea.
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Yea processor seems main priority, and if you are strictly gaming a core2duo is your best bet on power and price, unless you want an amd 64x2 but I am just not an amd cpu fan. You just want 2 fast ones it would be substantially more useful in gaming than slow quad.
Starcraftman:
From what I know, he could still buy a cheap AMD dual core without any other hardware upgrades because many of the Dual core Athlon series uses the same socket as the CPU he has now.
General Nick:
TL;DR Your processor is stuffty and buying a GTX280 is useless because it'll be bottlenecked by your processor unless you get a new one.
If you thought that the Sempron was a good buy, you're really wrong.
CC:
New processor will have to be compatible to the motherboard, right?
If you want a good cheap one, I'd say go with an Intel Core 2 Duo or better processor from Tigerdirect.
I'm not really sure about motherboard compatibility and whatnot, you'll have to look that up from somewhere else. :s
Miga:
--- Quote from: Visage on December 01, 2009, 09:57:41 PM ---Looks like the classic case of someone being short on budget for a comp and buying all worthless crap and then buying an uber graphics card thinking it would make the whole thing awesome.
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I've made this mistake before when I had a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz processor and a GeForce 8800 GT...
Only when I upgraded to my 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo is when I got a huge change in performance.