Looking for help.

[elevendarkdays]

Hi, I'm not much of a computer person when it comes to the hardware and knowing what I need to make things work right. I have an Acer Aspire M3100 AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core 3GB Ram computer that has a ATI Radeon X1250. Well the video card to my understanding isn't good enough to play certain games Like WoW and COD4. So I was looking for video cards and I seen most of them need 350+ PSU. Well i only have a 250 so I need to upgrade that in order to upgrade my Video card. But here is the problem I don't have clue as to what Kind of PSU I need to Video card I want. So if some one could please help me find a good match for my computer and video card that would be awsome.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4128445&Sku=P450-9616

That is the Video card that I was looking at

 

[Twist86]

I am curious how fast is your X2?

X1250 that is 128mb and DDR memory right? I can see why you can't play WoW atm...even a 7600GT is struggling for that game.

Whats your budget? Firstly you would be happier and would last longer to get a 4830 or 9800GT for roughly 20 bucks more + free shipping from Newegg.

9800GT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130397

4830
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102803



Power supply you will want a 500w or so to be safe and to "future proof" if you upgrade later to say a quad-core or a new dual-core etc.
One thing I learned is buy more then you need...other wise next upgrade you might have to buy a new 60 dollar + psu when spending 20 extra now would have saved you.

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One my buddies swears by his OCZ 600w
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341010


Though I prefer corsair for single rail and I never played with 4 rail PSU before but you pay for it with Corsair but they are dependable name as well as OCZ.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139004


BTW all the items I listed are free shipping so you save 15-20 bucks over Tigerdirect. I wish they had free shipping options...they get items to me in 1 day ^-^


With my 8800GT (its the same as a 9800GT) I can max out WoW with x8 AA and never drop below 60 FPS cept in towns which I drop to 30-40 FPS which is a bug with the game engine...not my hardware. Since even with no AA and lower resolution my FPS still slumps to 40ish FPS.

 

[elevendarkdays]

thanks

thanks for all the information. The video card is 256 I think and for the processor its a 4800+ 2.50ghz. But I just want to make sure that I buy a good PSU one that is not gonna crap out on me in like a month or something. And make sure that I get one that is compatible with my computer and what ever card I get. But my price range is about $150-170. Not much I know, But any thing right now is better then the 10fps i get in raids. Doesn't really go hand in hand being a healer.

But once again thank you for all the help.