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    Upgrades for my cpu/gpu in my desktop pc

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by OmarAn, Aug 30, 2011.

  1. OmarAn

    OmarAn Notebook Geek

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    here are info about my motherboard and my gpu/cpu! what are the upgardes that i can do for my cpu/gpu!
    i think my Gt9400 is plugged via a pcie v1.0 and my mother board supports 2.0! but my motherboard doesn't support dual gpu's, right?

    it's a 1GB DDR2 pluged in pcie 1.0! in cpu info what ThermMon mean? in operating mode tab, what's CPU HFM max?

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    thanks for your help guys!!!!
     
  2. woofer00

    woofer00 Wanderer

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    First, the e7400 is a desktop processor, and that harddrive is a deskstar. Wrong forum.

    Moving on from that, you have to check what the mobo supports. That's near the end of the core2duo wolfdale-3m series, so that might be it depending on the board. The CPU might go max to e8xxx, assuming the mobo supports it, but that's not a huge jump. 3 GB of DDR2, so you might have some luck going to 4 or 6gb, but do it sooner than later - ddr2 prices are apparently rising.

    ThermMon is thermal monitoring, I think. If it says okay, that means you're not throttled or you haven't hit any warning levels. I think LFM/HFM indicates high and low ranges for clock frequencies.
     
  3. OmarAn

    OmarAn Notebook Geek

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    yeah, it's a desktop, can't you tell me from the picture which gpu's is supported by my board?
     
  4. atobe

    atobe Notebook Enthusiast

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    it's a desktop then you can pretty much get any PCIE video card you want out there. but then if you get too high of a card then the CPU will bottleneck it.
     
  5. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Desktop questions should be asked on Desktop Review, thanks.