Is A GeForce 280 GTX compatible with my computer?

[FrAgGEr]

That is a computer i built


Is it good enough?

It's good enough for now.
It doesn't need upgrading.

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[OneWithFire]

Even with it's processor?

[Starcraftman]

Well the processor you have in that computer is crap. No point upgrading your graphics card unless you get a substantially more powerful processor.

[Visage]

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. You shoulda just bought like a 4800 or 9800, or even an 8800, and then getting a dual core with decent clock speed and nice ram and an 80 dollar mobo with at least one pci x16 slot. Also what is your PSU, I wouldn't go under 600 watts if you are going to have a card that power hungry, 800 would be a safer bet.

[Starcraftman]

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. You shoulda just bought like a 4800 or 9800, or even an 8800, and then getting a dual core with decent clock speed and nice ram and an 80 dollar mobo with at least one pci x16 slot.

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.

[Visage]

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.

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]

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.

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.

[OneWithFire]

But the site doesnt say how many cores it has, how do i figure that out?

[OneWithFire]

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

Yeah, i am trying to find the cheapest gaming computer out there.

[Inv3rted]

Remember, this guy broke a motherboard.

[Syntho]

[OneWithFire]

Remember, this guy broke a motherboard.

IF you look around, you'll find out what happened.


But can anyone tell me how to know if a processor is dual or triple, or anything like that, that is all i wanted to know.

Also, How many cores would i need for this card to work?