That looks like a cool graphics card for a good price. Only problem is that they recommend a 450 watt power supply; mine is 300 watt, plus I will be overclocking my CPU.
Does the computer monitor hooked up to HDMI make the game look much better?
That looks like a cool graphics card for a good price. Only problem is that they recommend a 450 watt power supply; mine is 300 watt, plus I will be overclocking my CPU.
Seeing as this is a prebuilt (or so I believe), have you upgraded the motherboard? If not, chances of actually overclocking the processor, is slim to none.
It's really not about the watts, it's about the amps on the +12 volt rail. I would be looking for something 25+ amps on the +12. and i know the Antec Earthwatts will hit that.
You have an ECS 945GCT-M3. It has a Clock Ratio adjustment, but most people haven't had any luck actually getting the option to show (probably because of a BIOS update, or Manufacturer's edited BIOS.). To overclock your processor, you'd need a new motherboard. I have no idea on what good Intel boards are, but if you do want a new motherboard, look into either the G31/G35 or P43/P45 chipsets, as I've heard decent things about those, and they usually pop up in this forum.
I have an Intel Dual Core E2140 which runs at 1.6 ghz at usual 40 degrees Celsius. I usually judge based all CPUs based on the GHz number alone. So that is how I concluded that mine wasn't very good at only 1.6 GHz. Is this right?