Aphrodite01 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Computer Specs HP <-- Clip there I recently had to change my hard drive due to error messages that said I had a corrupted registry. It caused my hard drive to fail. It was sent back from HP working fine. (Currently out of warranty) When I had it returned and I started to update windows again soon after I started once again getting errors ! I had nothing major installed. I installed a new Hard drive and ran a few updates before the same issue started recurring! I immediately stopped the updates and went back a few updates close to factory settings.. My PC now works fine but I can not update my PC windows without losing my hard drive again or my PC going crazy! Any ideas what is going on? All the input is appreciated With all this its a pretty sweet PC I want to keep it instead of buying a new one Am shopping for a new Graphics Card Model Brand XFX Model PVT95GZAFG Interface Interface PCI Express 2.0 x16 Chipset Chipset Manufacturer NVIDIA GPU GeForce 9500 GT Core Clock 550MHz Stream Processors 32 Memory Effective Memory Clock 800MHz Memory Size 1GB Memory Interface 128-bit Memory Type GDDR2 3D API DirectX DirectX 10 OpenGL OpenGL 2.1 Ports D-SUB 1 x D-SUB DVI 1 x DVI TV-Out HDTV / S-Video Out General RAMDAC 400 MHz Max Resolution 2560 x 1600 SLI Support No Cooler With Fan System Requirements Minimum 350W or greater system power supply (with a minimum 12V current rating of 18A) Dual-Link DVI Supported Yes Would this Card work on my PC and not damage my motherboard? Am not sure how much can a motherboard handle or what type of Graphics cards work with this PC. Considering I have no idea about the wires that need to be connected please help One of the things I will need to upgrade for this card to work is my power supply.. If that is the only other thing I need to make this video card work any ideas on a power supply that works with this computer? Am not sure so please help before I blow up my motherboard or burn something lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionKnight Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 How about an Antec Earthwatts 650 W PSU? You can run anything and its a very very good brand =D. Only $59.99 Canadian from NCIX. Of course for that video card you don't really need that powerful of a PSU. An Antec or OCZ 450 W would be easily enough to run this card. Its like hmm piss voltage consumption? Graphically it can run Crysis around 20 fps at 1280 x 800 in medium settings and COD4 around 35-40 fps at high settings (direct x 9.0 i am not 100% sure. It depends on way too many things like your CPU..etc) Just to give you where the card stands. lol this does not reflect how well it performs in certain games for fps, but it tries to give some sort of standing to video cards ex.) GTS 250 and HD 4870 may show similar marks but in reality the 4870 performs almost 20% more fps at the same quality. 3d mark Vantage scores ATI Radeon HD 5870 - 20831 <---- $400 ish Canadian GTX 295 - 16662 <---- $699.99 Canadian ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 -13000 GTX 260 -9095 HD 4870 - 7933 GTS 250 -7706 9800 GTX - 7300 HD 3870 X2 - 7290 8800 GTX - 6732 9600 GSO -4108 HD 4670 - 2300 HD 4650 - 1954 9500 GT - 1100 9400 GT - 733 HD 4350 - 570 <--- $19.99-29.99 Canadian Intergrated graphics - 50-120 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoGooD Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Computer Specs HP <-- Clip there I recently had to change my hard drive due to error messages that said I had a corrupted registry. It caused my hard drive to fail. It was sent back from HP working fine. (Currently out of warranty) When I had it returned and I started to update windows again soon after I started once again getting errors ! I had nothing major installed. I installed a new Hard drive and ran a few updates before the same issue started recurring! I immediately stopped the updates and went back a few updates close to factory settings.. My PC now works fine but I can not update my PC windows without losing my hard drive again or my PC going crazy! Any ideas what is going on? All the input is appreciated Could you elaborate about what you mean when you say "losing your hard drive"? What exactly do you mean by that? Also HP's tend to have a hidden partition on the hard drive from which you can reinstall your windows. I've seen on occasion this parition become corrupted and cause problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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