Would the GeForce 8800gts video card be overkill on a system that has a Intel core duo 2.33Ghz and 4GB of RAM?
2007-09-12 08:37:09 · 6 answers · asked by No Chance Without Bernoulli 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
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2007-09-12 08:37:22 · update #1
NOT really. But 8800GTS could still be a bit bottlenecked at that processor speed. You can unleash some more performance from that card if you overclock your processor to 2.6 to 2.8Ghz. Do NOT be afraid to overclock an OC friendly processor. Just stay within stock voltages and you should be safe.
This might interest you:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/newbie-oc-guide.html
2007-09-12 12:55:13 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heck no it wouldn't be overkill that is perfect for those specs. Really the 4GB of RAM is overkill unless you're doing some renders in 3dsmax/maya or some video editing. Just make sure you have a good psu that will support it.
Gonna say its prebuilt and they hardly ever come with good psu's.
2007-09-12 09:00:36 · answer #2 · answered by Chris 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Best bang for the buck. Here's a chart comparing the 320MB card to other cards. Probably gonna replace my ATI 512MB 1900XTX with the superclocked 640MB 8800GTS. My ATI rocks with DX9 but I put 64bit Ultimate in and want DX10.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=725&model2=778&chart=302
2007-09-12 08:50:26 · answer #3 · answered by s j 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ITS actually pretty good, although the 4 gigs of ram does do too much to it. i would have 2 gigs in dual channel and make sure your 8800 doesn't have anymore than the 380 bit processing... if you have too much, its gonna slow the games down a little bit.
you want to have tight settings on the ram and video card processing. i would also recommend getting a good sound card (x fi) and turn the onboard sound off so your cpu has less clock cycles
2007-09-12 10:26:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am an AMD man myself but if you upgrade to a quad core processor you will have to buy a new motherboard , memory possibly power supply it will cost a few bob that for sure and if you stay 32 bit there is no point having more than 4gb of memory, unless you go to 64 bit operating system and then install 16 gb of memory. like I said costly.
2016-05-17 23:25:45 · answer #5 · answered by dixie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no .. it would be about ryt if u want to play all the latest games at a good detail setting ...
2007-09-12 08:39:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋