yo_john117 said:
zarx said:
yo_john117 said:
I figured this would be the best place to post this.
So someone donated their computer to me because I needed onez for college and it seems like a pretty good computer. But I have a few questions about it.
1. How good of a machine is it? Specs are below:
Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
8GB of ram
Graphics card is an Nvidia Quadro FX 1800
2. It has Vista (ewww!) on it and I was wondering if anyone knows of a place where I can find a really cheap upgrade for preferable Windows 8.
3. I have the computer hooked up to my 23" Asus 1080p capable monitor via a DivX adapter that has a female HDMI on the other side and I have my HDMI cord hooked up from that to the monitor. Now my problem is I can't put it on 1080p resolution because if I do the screen looks like its shaking. It works fine on 1680 x 1050 resolution though so I'm not sure how to fix this. Nevermind, got it fixed.
Thanks!
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The CPU is a bit long in the tooth but is probably still ok for most games, if you want to overclock it a bit all the better. The GPU isn't really that great for games TBH, it's an old low end Quadro card so driver support for games will be nonexistant plus it's just not that powerful. You would be able to buy something a lot better for not that much money.
As for you OS as a student you should be able to get a student discount through your college which will knock a fair ammount off the price.
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Yeah I did some further research and found that whilst the card itself is good even by today's standards, it absolutely sucks for gaming. Oh well I'm not going to complain since it was donated to me.
@perm: I may get a different graphics card but probably not for a good while. How does one go about overclocking the CPU?
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Push the Front Side Bus clock up, maintain the Ram at it's default speed and when you encounter stability issues, push up the voltage, Core 2's can generally handle 1.4 volt just fine.
Plus, you may need to adjust the ratios for PCI/PCI-E busses too to keep them at default clocks.
That's provided the motherboard even lets you overclock to begin with.
