Upgrading a FX6800-01e

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chocoperson145

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Hi guys,

I'm very new to computer upgrading and building and don't really know much of the terminology, but I have been thinking of upgrading my Gateway FX6800-01e for some time now.

Specifically, I've been wanting to upgrade my graphics card (An ATI Radeon 4850 w/ 512mb of VRam) to run newer games like Shogun 2 and The Witcher 2 (To name a few) on the mostly highest settings at a resolution of 1600x1050. Does anyone have any recommendations? Preferably between the $150-$180 price range.

My computer model's details can be found here:

http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/gateway-fx6800-01e/4507-3118_7-33392302.html?tag=rnav

Thanks guys the help is much appreciated, and any other details like if my power supply is able to handle it or if my RAM (3GB) is not high enough
 
A 6850 in that price range. It claims it has a 500W power supply, but most OEM ones are pretty much poor quality. So its a (up in the air) if it would work or not. Might be a good idea to replace both. Good quality supplies, look at Antec/Seasonic/XFX/Corsair/Silverstone/PC P&C/ some XClio
 
chocoperson145 said:
Would this power supply be up to par with most things today?

http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-CMPSU...ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1307543581&sr=1-1
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Yeah, thats fine. Pretty much overkill if your just going to run a single 6850. But if does give you alot of overhead for upgrades.

For your system as is, one of these would be fine.
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Certi...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1307565678&sr=1-20

http://www.amazon.com/XFX-Watt-Powe...2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1307566084&sr=1-2






chocoperson145 said:
Second, when I did a search for the 6850 I got multiple results for the card, which one is the best, and what difference would they have from each other?

http://shop.amd.com/US/_layouts/shop/shop-amd.aspx?csquery=radeon%206850
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Stick with a Sapphire/XFX/Asus/Gigabyte and some HIS models are not to bad.
 
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