Hey All.
I have a Acer Aspire XC-105 AMD A4-5000 Quad Core 6GB 1TB Windows 8.1 Desktop. I have managed to pick up 2x GTX 670 2GB cards for under £30. One is for m oldest daughter and sims lol, But now my youngest has now decided she would also like to step into the world of pc gaming albeit one little toe. I have the above pc laying around with a spare case and 800w PSU. Now i want to know before i take the motherbaord out and stick it in the spare case and connect everthing will the card be ok with the CPU? the CPU is Soldered on to the board. and i will be sticking in 8gb of ram not the six. just want to make it will run ok before i waste time sorting it all out over the weekend.
Cheers
Bell:D:D
I doubt it.
That is a pre-made PC with a notebook CPU in it... but the bigger issue is the motherboard - I don't think it will have a 16x PCIe slot for you to connect the GPU to.
These pre-mades are often put together with cheap but purpose built motherboards, and as such you're unlikely to find connections the PC didn't need when built. They would have had absolutely no need to put a 16x slot on that board, with no intention of ever pairing it with a GPU... so I don't see why they would have bothered.
If you open it up and there IS a compatible slot for the GPU then go ahead and test it. Theoretically it will work... but wow, the performance will be straight from the stone-age with that CPU. :flirty:
If you can't tell from my pessimism, this is probably a waste of your time. :woot2:
Ok so looked on hwinfo and it says there is a pcie 2.0 slot and on the board there is one. Gonna put a sad on and will see what it runs like lol
Just don't be surprised if you open it up and that's not a slot that supports a GPU. I'd wager that it's more likely that's a physically smaller slot than what you'd need, more aimed at smaller add-on cards - but really you can only tell by having a look. There are always adapter cards but that's really not worth the faff. Tbh, I think either way that CPU will limit your performance significantly, but let us know how you get on, and GL :roflmao: !