I'm looking at a basic yet expandible tower. The 'CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra GUA140'. I plan on adding more RAM, but the graphics card also needs to be replaced, as it's just not good enough.
The card I'm looking at ('EVGA - GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0') is compatible with the OS (windows7) and with the cooling, and with the power supply (500W power supply), but I can't tell if the new card will be entirely compatible, as I don't know if the tower has the correct power connectors.
Is there an easy way to tell? Does practically every power supply have a 'six-pin PCI express connector' or 'two hard disk power connectors?'
I don't know how to tell because I only started this pc stuff a couple months ago and I've never swapped out a part. If anyone knows anything, please answer. I really want a computer capable of maxing Oblivion's graphics, and this is the best, cheapest combo I've been able to find. If this isn't compatible I have no idea what I'm going to do.
Other specs:
1TB HDD
AMD Phenom II Quad Core CPU
4GB RAM by default (though I'll get more)
The card I'm looking at ('EVGA - GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0') is compatible with the OS (windows7) and with the cooling, and with the power supply (500W power supply), but I can't tell if the new card will be entirely compatible, as I don't know if the tower has the correct power connectors.
Is there an easy way to tell? Does practically every power supply have a 'six-pin PCI express connector' or 'two hard disk power connectors?'
I don't know how to tell because I only started this pc stuff a couple months ago and I've never swapped out a part. If anyone knows anything, please answer. I really want a computer capable of maxing Oblivion's graphics, and this is the best, cheapest combo I've been able to find. If this isn't compatible I have no idea what I'm going to do.
Other specs:
1TB HDD
AMD Phenom II Quad Core CPU
4GB RAM by default (though I'll get more)
