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January 4th, 2006 21:00

4700 video

Couple things:
 
Anybody had experience with Blitzkrieg2 running on a 4700 utilizing the built-in graphics?  What card would you recommend - needs minimum of GeForce 3 or Radeon 8500 class.  Do not want to sell the farm on a new card, but do not want to be "out of date" again in the near future.
 
Why in the world would DELL sell its customers a 4700 with a highly rated (by them) PCIe slot but not put a power supply in the machine capable of supporting the cards going into that slot????
 
Now if I want to go to a decent PCLe card, will have to purchase a more powerful power supply and additional cooling fan.  Just doesn't sound right and sure is not good PR for DELL.
 
Have read about the fan in some 4700 being put in backwards.  Which way should it be blowing air - in or out of the case?  Showing my ignorance here!
 
Thanks for any help here.
 
Kingfish
  • SuthrnGirl

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    Posted January 4th, 2006 22:00

    well the PSU is actually rated at 305W which should be enough to get you a 6600GT maybe even a Vanilla 6800 but you must note that they dont make Geforce 3s and 8500 in PCI-E. Anyway this site helps some to calculate what kinda PSU you need to upgrade to if any
     
     
    the 6600GT are going at around $150 at newegg which is quite cheap for a decent vid card with sm3.0 capabilities which will allow you to run the latest games at probably medium settings