My CPU

[Chaos 2]

Yea well I have a dell inspiron 530.. And I'm looking for a video card of $100 or less that would be really good for my cpu. If you guys could help out it would be greatly appreciated..

Here are my specs.. Just post some video cards that would work with my cpu.. I'm not really good with tech stuff so yea..

Current gpu: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS 512MB

Processor

Processor type

2.33 GHz

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor

Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor

Level 2 (L2) cache

At least 512 KB pipelined-burst, eight-way set associative, writeback SRAM

Memory

Type

DDR2 SDRAM(667/800-MHz)

Memory connectors

four

Memory capacities

512 MB, 1 GB or 2 GB

Maximum memory

4 GB (Inspiron 530 only ) 8 GB(Inspiron 530a/530c)

Computer Information

Chipset

G33/ICH9

RAID Support

RAID 1 support (on-board)

DMA channels

seven

Interrupt levels

24

BIOS chip (NVRAM)

16 Mb (Inspiron 530 only) 8Mb (Inspiron 530a/530c)

NIC

Integrated network interface capable of 10/100 communication

Video

Type

Intel integrated video

Audio

Type

Realtek ALC888 (7.1 Channel audio)

Expansion Bus

Bus type

PCI 2.3

PCI Express 1.0A

SATA 1.0 and 2.0

USB 2.0

Bus speed

PCI: 133 MB/s

PCI Express:

x1 slot bidirectional speed - 500 MB/s

x16 slot bidirectional speed - 8GB/s

SATA: 1.5 Gbps and 3.0 Gbps

USB: 480 Mbps high speed, 12 Mbps full speed, 1.2 Mbps low speed

PCI

connectors

two

connector size

124 pins

connector data width (maximum)

32 bits

PCI Express

connector

one x1

connector size

36 pins

connector data width (maximum)

1 PCI Express lane

PCI Express

connector

one x16

connector size

164 pins

connector data width (maximum)

16 PCI Express lanes

Drives

Externally accessible:

one 3.5-inch drive bay (FlexBay)

two 5.25-inch drive bays

Internally accessible

two 3.5-inch drive bays

Available devices

two 3.5-inch Serial ATA hard drives and two 5.25-inch Serial ATA CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, or combo drive (optional)

one 3.5-inch floppy drive (optional) or Media Card Reader (optional)

NOTE: Floppy drive is supported only on Inspiron 530.

Connectors

External connectors:

Video

15-hole connector

Network adapter

RJ-45 connector

USB

two front-panel and four back-panel USB 2.0-compliant connectors

Audio

six connectors for 7.1 support

System board connectors:

Serial ATA

four 7-pin connectors

Internal USB device

two 9-pin connector (supports one flexbay device)

Floppy drive

one 34-pin connector

Processor fan

one 4-pin connector

Chassis fan

one 3-pin connector

PCI 2.3

two 124-pin connectors

PCI Express x1

one 36-pin connector

PCI Express x16

one 164-pin connector

Front panel control

one 9-pin connector

Front panel USB

one 9-pin connector (one connector supports two USB ports)

Front panel audio HDA header

one 9-pin connector

Processor

one 775-pin connector

Memory

four 240-pin connectors

Power 12V

one 4-pin connector

Power

one 24-pin connector

[Oreo 2073]

EVGA GTS 450 is only 100$.

[paperwastage 0]

EVGA GTS 450 is only 100$.

problem is that the GTS 450 is quite power hungry. you want at least 450W/22amps on the 12+V...

Dell PSUs are prolly <300W... u'll need to get a new PSU along with a GPU

also, just making sure, your dell inspiron 530 is NOT the slim case right?

[TURKISH RAMBO 9]

Wow. Out of all that you didnt even post how many Ghz it is.

Also, you cant really get to powerful of a GPU cus itll probably be bottlenecked by the CPU. go with the GTS 450 like ^

what is your current gpu? what are you looking to play? ...................

also, yeah, crap OEM shit, youll prob have to buy a new psu also, if itll even be compatible with the case. (GPU also) Can you find a picture?

[Chaos 2]

Wow. Out of all that you didnt even post how many Ghz it is.

Also, you cant really get to powerful of a GPU cus itll probably be bottlenecked by the CPU. go with the GTS 450 like ^

what is your current gpu? what are you looking to play? ...................

also, yeah, crap OEM shit, youll prob have to buy a new psu also, if itll even be compatible with the case. (GPU also) Can you find a picture?