Cheapish HMDI graphix card

silkyuk9

Since I have a HMDI slot on my pc monitor and not in the pc itself I thought I would buy a card so thought I would ask suggestions from the pics ive added about my pc. I will also havw 16gig of memory in a day or 2.

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I also do not have hundreds of pounds to spend.

Thanks for your help

maas

Give us a screenshot of the graphics page?

What will you want to do with the graphics card in addition to what you currently do?

silkyuk9

Well to be honest I cannot play football manager very well as its sluggish (Fifa Manager) but I watch a few videos with my grandson on my monitor now and again. Just baiscally want a better quality picture if a HD graphics card will improve things. I play an online golf game (WGT)

custardy

If it were me,I would just pick up something like a 2nd hand gtx 460

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=gtx+460&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

maas

Games like football manager are going to be slowed down more by an older CPU than by a old video card. A newer video card wont make any difference in that particular case.

If you just want better picture quality then just go with todays entry level video cards. You can get an upgrade to what you currently have from £50-£100, which include HDMI out. Something like this;

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-sapphire-radeon-radeon-r7-240-1800mhz-gddr3-gpu-730mhz-boost-780mhz-320-streams-d-sub-dvi-d-hdmi

Most of the newer cards are what we call "dual slot", which basically just means its a fat card (depth-wise) and will take up 2 slots worth of space in your PC. Your current video is integrated into the motherboard so you dont actually have a card.

What you'll need to do is make sure you have room in your PC for a dual slot card.

See picture below, a new dual slot video card will fit in PCIEX16 and it will cover both the X16 (blue) and X1 (white) slots. So you need to check there isnt any cards plugged into there.

andydiysaver

not the best by a long way but the best cost thousands


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/XFX-Radeon-HD-6670-800M-1GB-DDR3-HDMI-DVI-VGA-PCI-E-HD-667X-ZHF2-D-/141419891351?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item20ed484a97


lot of bang for buck - loadsa output options, inc hdmi

NiftyDigits

andydiysaver wrote: »

not the best by a long way but the best cost thousands


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/XFX-Radeon-HD-6670-800M-1GB-DDR3-HDMI-DVI-VGA-PCI-E-HD-667X-ZHF2-D-/141419891351?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item20ed484a97


lot of bang for buck - loadsa output options, inc hdmi

Good card, but;

Requirements

Minimum Power Supply Requirement : 400 Watt

XFX Recommended Power Supply : XFX 450W PSU

I guess his Zoostorm's PSU is rated at 250W.

silkyuk9

Can i find out what my power supply unit is without opening the pc up?

GunJack

or something basic that'll give hdmi o/p and will work ok with the existing PSU, popped one of these into my desktop recently:-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MSI-GeForce-GT-210-1GB-Graphics-Card-Low-Profile-PCI-Express-2-0x16-589MHz-HDMI-/331328684791?

and for under £20

NiftyDigits

silkyuk9 wrote: »

Can i find out what my power supply unit is without opening the pc up?

So how are you going to get the 16GB of RAM fitted?

Power Supply
300 watts

silkyuk9

NiftyDigits wrote: »

So how are you going to get the 16GB of RAM fitted?

is this any help



I put in 2 8 gig sticks of ram took out my 2 gig