Nvidia 8800 Video card

[Raven2490]

Will a AMD 64 X2 5000 + be able to hold the new Nvidia card w/o blowing up or overheating?


thanks in advance :)

[dohray]

Hi,

It's not the CPU which decides whether or not a card is going to blow. There are multiple factors involved. These are mainly a combination of your Power Supply Unit and what juice it has to provide to your video card, RAM, optical drives etc;

Get the biggest and best PSU/ motherboard you can afford.

Both your choices of CPU and vid' card are good. Don't skimp on the quality of RAM or motherboard either.

Here's another guide to the 8800 at Toms Hardware. (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/graphics/charts.html?modelx=33&model1=606&model2=547&chart=227)

[Raven2490]

I'm looking at 3 gig of ram and the ppl at Dell have sworn it should be a great combination with the GTX.

thx for the reply.

Edit: Thanks for the link. I'm looking at it right now has great info there thx :)