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[Gorath Alpha]

Askal wrote...
I'm glad to help. Don't worry about being a noob at least you don't waste a lot of time on computer articles like me

EDIT: If you want to future proof, you should take Doofus' advice and get that Corsair. It would be a good investment since PSUs are one of, if not the most important component in a computer and comply to a standard size so even you wanted a brand new computer, you could take the TX650 out and plop it in the new one.

I have gotten arguments about having named the PSU as number three from the top three in importance for best game performance in this locally published article (Dragon Age's TechForum):

PC Hardware Basics (and inventorying PC Components):
social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/509580

I hope that any wastes of time on "articles" was for material from other authors, not including any of the several I posted on the Social Forum Site (mostly, as above, on the Dragon Age tech discussion forum).

I've expanded the original reply that I added in this thread at the start.  My smallest enclosure in active use here is a Cooler Master Elite, but far too many HP models are sold in the "slimline" mini micro box, instead of a proper case (oops, left this out -- and I didn't verify that the HP model I'd found and linked to was only sold in the normal shaped case), and those slimline boxes won't accept a standard ATX power supply because of the too-small size. 

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 31 mars 2010 - 10:38 .

[Demonik Angel]

I just wanted to thank everyone who helped me out, i got the power supply and video card today and got em both installed and all my pc games are running 100% better now. the only thing i couldnt find out is where the crossfire piece the videocard came with goes to, me and my friends just couldnt figure that one out.

[Doofus42]

Demonik - That's great to hear! Just hang onto the crossfire piece. It is used when you have 2 ATI video cards running in parallel. Your system can not do Crossfire because it only has 1 PCI-e x16 slot.

Sounds like it is time for your Shep to kick some ass!

What PSU and videop card did you get?

Modifié par Doofus42, 07 avril 2010 - 02:48 .

[Brayton]

All of this stuff just kinda kicks me in the crotch...my XPS M1530 has the Geforce 6800M...which means its obsolete now...Which doesn't make sense because I can still get decent graphics for 3 to 4 hours...I then just have to give it an hour brake and its good to play again...The performance got even better when I moved all my games over to my new 1 terabyte external hard drive...I've been thinking of getting the external ram upgrade, but I've run out of slots .

One is taken by my wireless mouse, the other one is taken up by the EHD(external hard drive) and the last is taken up by an exterior fan I have to help keep the laptop from overheating.

[Demonik Angel]

Doofus42 wrote...

Demonik - That's great to hear! Just hang onto the crossfire piece. It is used when you have 2 ATI video cards running in parallel. Your system can not do Crossfire because it only has 1 PCI-e x16 slot.

Sounds like it is time for your Shep to kick some ass!

What PSU and videop card did you get?

these are the two I got:

PSU:
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16817139005

Video Card:
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814102868

[Doofus42]

Good stuff!  

[Askal]

RockingKraut wrote...

All of this stuff just kinda kicks me in the crotch...my XPS M1530 has the Geforce 6800M...which means its obsolete now...Which doesn't make sense because I can still get decent graphics for 3 to 4 hours...I then just have to give it an hour brake and its good to play again...The performance got even better when I moved all my games over to my new 1 terabyte external hard drive...I've been thinking of getting the external ram upgrade, but I've run out of slots .
One is taken by my wireless mouse, the other one is taken up by the EHD(external hard drive) and the last is taken up by an exterior fan I have to help keep the laptop from overheating.

Hehe, I guess it all depends on what settings you like to play at really. I would't be able to play with that hardware BUT I'm very stubborn about playing at a resolution of 1920x1080 because I've gotten used to doing everything else at that size. Objectively thinking, I'm not playing this very smart when my income isn't great but shhh...