Need help on buying a new graphic card!!

Desktop PC's are very simple machines! There are a few major areas to consider.
Motherboard: What holds the hardware and links everything together
CPU: The brains that operates everything
RAM: What is area allowed to work on, just like the size of a table
Hard drive: That is the allowed operating limits to be stored. How much space total!
Video Card: What you can see when using your PC by the human eye
Operating system: what method the directions are told, like a language

That is the basics.

How to put it all together,

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most of it is snap and click, with a few screws here and there.

Being built by Dell I feel you will be quite happy with that PC. I know you paid a pretty penny for it. I know some of the guys at Dell and They will walk you through any problems you have. Not that I would think you will have any. That graphics card is very good and the i7 CPU is wonderful. You won't have any problems with gaming on that configuration.

Well people told me to go with a different ATI card, so this is my final decision and i ordered this one


Alienware Aurora Chassis - Cosmic Black ALX
Power Supply - 875 Watt Power Supply

Processor - Intel Core i7 Overlocked to 3.6GHz,8MB Cache

Power Supply- Alienware 875 Watt Power Supply
Operating System - Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium ,64bit

Video Card- Single 2GB ATI Radeon HD 5970

Memory - 6GB Triple Channel 1333MHz DDR3

Hard Drive - 1.2TB Raid 0 ( 2 X 640GB )- SATA,3Gb/s, 7,200RPM,16MB Cache HDD

Optical Drive - 24X CD/DVD Burner Dual Layer Burner ( (DVD±RW) w/ double layer write capability
Sound Card - Integrated Audio
AlienFX Lighting - Customizable through Alienware Command Center
Processor Cooling - Alienware High-Performance Liquid Cooling
Keyboard and Mouse- Alienware TactX Gaming Keyboard & Mouse

people told me that the ati radeon dual 5870 takes more advantage tha the 5970 if you have insane screen resolution, so i went with the 5970 since am gonna play under 1920X1200, i hope this desktop does great on gaming performances..!! thank you window 7 for your support!

12V rail amperage is the most important feature to look at on a PSU followed by the effeciency.

The last thing you should be concerned with is wattage.

You will find in many higher end systems, the actual watt requirement is not all that much.

12V rail is what makes or breaks a PSU

Generally speaking, a good quality 650W (such as a Corsair) will power most any system without issue.
Although it may have issues with larger dual GPUS.



To figure out how much wattage you need:
eXtreme Power Supply Calculator

Then find a good quality PSU, that meets this requirement, with a powerful 12V rail, and good effeciency rating and youll be golden.


that should be a very good gaming build though :)

Diabolical said:

Well people told me to go with a different ATI card, so this is my final decision and i ordered this one


Alienware Aurora Chassis - Cosmic Black ALX
Power Supply - 875 Watt Power Supply

Processor - Intel Core i7 Overlocked to 3.6GHz,8MB Cache

Power Supply- Alienware 875 Watt Power Supply
Operating System - Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium ,64bit

Video Card- Single 2GB ATI Radeon HD 5970

Memory - 6GB Triple Channel 1333MHz DDR3

Hard Drive - 1.2TB Raid 0 ( 2 X 640GB )- SATA,3Gb/s, 7,200RPM,16MB Cache HDD

Optical Drive - 24X CD/DVD Burner Dual Layer Burner ( (DVD±RW) w/ double layer write capability
Sound Card - Integrated Audio
AlienFX Lighting - Customizable through Alienware Command Center
Processor Cooling - Alienware High-Performance Liquid Cooling
Keyboard and Mouse- Alienware TactX Gaming Keyboard & Mouse

people told me that the ati radeon dual 5870 takes more advantage tha the 5970 if you have insane screen resolution, so i went with the 5970 since am gonna play under 1920X1200, i hope this desktop does great on gaming performances..!! thank you window 7 for your support!

What a rip off - it doesn't even have 7 Ultimate or a Blu-Ray writer. What about the motherboard?

i dont need blu-ray becuase i have a ps3 with blu ray and a big t.v., i dont care about window 7 ultimate am fine with window 7 home premium, and alienware brings its own motherboard, its not your option to choose..., like i said i want a desktop for GAMING ONLY

Diabolical said:

i dont need blu-ray becuase i have a ps3 with blu ray and a big t.v., i dont care about window 7 ultimate am fine with window 7 home premium, and alienware brings its own motherboard, its not your option to choose..., like i said i want a desktop for GAMING ONLY

Exactly why you could have built your own - and I'm sure for the price you paid Win 7 Ultimate should be standard as is the Blu-Ray writer. Hopefully the motherboard isn't proprietary.