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HaroldinCA
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June 29th, 2010 16:00
Video Card
I currently have a Nvida 8300GS 128mb video card that is running in an Inspiron 530 w/4GB of RAM. I would like to upgrade without having to change out the power supply. What would be a good upgrade. I have been looking at the EVGA 8400 GS with 512 MB. I don't want to go backwards, and I assume that the 8400 is better than the 8300 but am not sure. Any help on what to get would be appreciated. I just installed the Dell 2309W monitor and it seems like the performance suffers under the 8300 video card. Thanks for any help
HaroldinCA
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Posted July 2nd, 2010 10:00
Perfect. I'll go with the GT 240.
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Posted July 1st, 2010 12:00
The 8400 GS is really the exact same card as the 8300 GS and just the retail version as the 8300 GS is OEM only. Therefore, this would just be a lateral move and not an upgrade even though you are getting more video ram. The best card you can put in the system without changing the PSU is the Nvidia GT 240. If you don't want to spend this much, you can look at the 9500 GT or 9400 GT. Their newer equivalents are the GT 220 and GT 210. If you wanted to change over to ATI, the HD 4670, HD 4650, HD 5570 or HD 5670 would be choices to consider. Look for GDDR5 memory on the GT 240 and HD 5670 and GDDR3 memory on the others versus the slower DDR2.