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He could in theory go with a 750Ti, bit more power and would hold out graphically a bit longer I would assume.
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Don't exactly need to hold out graphically if all he's doing is internet and movies. I say 730 because driver releases will last way longer.
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I just ordered the GeForce GTX730 2GB $72 shipped and the cx430 $23 after rebate including shipping
Thank you for your time and help I am also going to try window 7 drive as you suggested. then I will have to decide what drives to add. what would you suggest I have the 320gb with vista on it another 2 320gb and a 2 tb that are just storage. I dont want to work the machine any harder than need be or make it slower.
Somewhere I read this machine could support up to 2tb? Maybe I was sleep surfing when I saw it. But I currently have a 2tb drive and two 320gb ones hooked up.
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Newer boards can take as many TB as available. It's usually just the OS and partition in question that won't support something higher.
I'd save your Vista drive just in case you want to revert back.
I'd save your Vista drive just in case you want to revert back.
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This. A GT730 would be a clean upgrade over his GT610, and not cost the earth. Plus the lower capacity PSUs are cheaper, and are fine for the more multimedia aimed graphics cards.
No need for him to buy a GTX980 if he's not a gamer or if doesn't do a lot of rendering, he won't see a benefit.
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Well I merged the machines and added the the new corsair cx430 and GT730. I used the Windows 7 Ultimate from the newer machine. This gave me 8gb ram. Everything was working fine I could stream video to the (new present) 80" sharp thru the hdmi cable or wireless. I had one video that the sound skipped on but all others worked fine. No speakers connected to PC except thru the tv.
Then yesterday it went to sleep and refused wake up or at least show me anything on my screens. I basically Had to disconnect everything and reconnect. This got me running. But then every song or video acted up with the audio skipping. I tried them thru different players with no difference. I tried some reading on the subject and saw no easy fix. I shut it down and removed the GeForce GT730. I connected to the onboard graphics with vga going to my 32" and HDMI going to my 80" and everything seems to be working ok.
NOW can anyone tell me why the GT730 being installed would cause this?
Then yesterday it went to sleep and refused wake up or at least show me anything on my screens. I basically Had to disconnect everything and reconnect. This got me running. But then every song or video acted up with the audio skipping. I tried them thru different players with no difference. I tried some reading on the subject and saw no easy fix. I shut it down and removed the GeForce GT730. I connected to the onboard graphics with vga going to my 32" and HDMI going to my 80" and everything seems to be working ok.
NOW can anyone tell me why the GT730 being installed would cause this?
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Carnagex I think I let it just load generically to start. Then I put the disc in and installed the drivers from it and I am not sure but it seems like it updated them.
Don't download the updates from disc since it's probably not the most recent one. Use this one to update to current driver.... Drivers | GeForce
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