Can I use a Palit HD 4670 with a P-IV based system ?

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Hi..

I have DELL DIMENTION 4700 system which I bought 4 yrs back and it has come with Factory fitted 128 MB ATI Radeon X300SE.

I want to upgrade the GPU now rather than going for a whole new system as I have no issues with other system performance.(Planning to wait till prices of core I-7 based systems drop a bit)

Is it worth upgrading to Palit HD 4670 for the moment ??

Is the card compatible with DELL 915 board based P-IV system ??

Plz advice.
Thx in advance.

...Amit

i think it is best you wait to buy it for ur new pc

Its not on the CPU that the support for g-card depends on - its rather the mobo which decides that!

915 chipset supports x16 PCIE 1.x bus.

So if ur mobo has the PCIE X16 slot it will support a decent pcie g-card.

Also plz some more specs about ur system.

U can add it, but do u think it will be worth it?

I dun think so.

Save up 25-30k, yeah that much by March-April 09, and u'll get a beautiful rig, 19" TFT with a gfx card to give you full settings everything high at 1280x800 if not 1440x900.

dont put a gpu on ur current sys.chances r that ur proccy will be a bottleneck.

Yes, I agree.

It would be benificial to go for a whole new system rather than upgrading components 1 by 1.

Other than DELL (XPS exceeds 80k), do we have other branded options available in India with Core I-7 config ??

Dude go for HD4670....it will not bottleneck ur performance if ur proc. is 3.0ghz ht and u have ample of ram (i assume 2gb)
Because Hd4670 is not that great card (not gt280) that it will bottleneck ur performance
com'on 0~5 fps drop will be negligible based on what resolution u game....!!!
At lower resolution this card is very good...(1280*1024,,,1650*1050,,low-med setting wit AA on)
(i did own this card somtime back)

p4 prescott were massacred by amd's counterpart back in the old days. Now its outdated, no way you run that on an outdated architecture properly.

orange3 said:
Yes, I agree.

It would be benificial to go for a whole new system rather than upgrading components 1 by 1.

Other than DELL (XPS exceeds 80k), do we have other branded options available in India with Core I-7 config ??

F* branded configs, wait till March or April and for 80k u'll get Core i7 as well as an uber end gfx card.