Well that defeats the whole purpose of a simple and cheap upgrade.
Actually, the entire purpose of the 780G chipest is to be a simple and cheap upgrade, while still getting very good performance at the same time.
It's definitely not the absolute best graphics card. But it beats all other
onboard cards (usually by a very large margin), and it'll beat the FX-5200, and it supports DirectX 10.1, and it will reduce CPU load if you want to play videos... It also includes an onboard sound card (or you could use an old PCI sound card if you have one... PCI has been around for ages and is still being used, though slowly being replaced by PCI-E)
But at the same time, it's cheap, and it's quite low on power consumption....
Basically, it's probably the best motherboard/GPU combo if you want to get the most out of your money.
That being, if i want to install such a high tech graphics card, then my motherboard, CPU, Ram and other components wouldn't match very well so i would have to replace everything. In that case i would buy a new pc, lol!
That wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
I mean, if you know what to look for, or know people that do, then you can find the components to make what's basically a new system, for very cheap.
I mean, if a single core CPU will do the job for you, you can get something like a Sempron (single core) for about $30, which will probably be significantly better than the CPU you're running
here is a Sempron 3200+ for $25:
Topcom online)
stock speed of 2.3GHZ (equivalent to about a 3.0-3.4GHZ Pentium 4)
2GB RAM can be had for about $50-$60 - and if you don't plan on running the absolute top end games like Crysis, you can completely disable paging file, and your system will just run really smoothly (as well as using less hard drive space with no paging file)
one of the biggest reasons for unresponsiveness on computers is the need to use paging file, if there isn't enough RAM. Paging file is a file on the hard drive used like RAM; however, a hard drive is ridiculously slow compared to RAM. I'm not sure on the actual figures, but it's something lie 50-100 times slower.
here:
Centre Com Online
at the same place as the 780G motherboard I posted before
So that's about $96 for the motherboard, $25 for the CPU, $60 for the RAM
or about $180 for what's basically a new system
1. I am not a hardcore cutting edge gamer, yes i play games occasionally, but most are either DOS based or a few years old.
2. No, i don't have heaps of money to buy the latest and greatest system, i'm a student.
3. I really don't care to have the latest or most powerful pc or electronics gadgets, if it does what i need them i'm happy. I'm usually 2-3 years behind in the pc industry because i don't bother to keep up with developments and new products. You know the whole electronics industry is based off planned obsolescence, but i guess you wouldn't believe it, would you?
Yes, I'm not going to recommend you get the best of the best.
The fact that hardware becomes obsolete is one of the reasons forums like this exist: so we can discuss and share information about current and future products and find out what's worth getting now, and what isn't, etc..
I just recommended the 780G because I'm impressed with what you get out of it for the money. And I have a system that's a lot more powerful (I spent about $300 on the motherboard, $660 on two graphics cards ($330 each) running in crossfire, $100 on RAM, $300 on the CPU, $500 on watercooling, $350 on the
case, $180 on the power supply, and over $1000 on hard drives... so yeah, my system wasn't cheap)