This board is painfully slow for me, it took 20 minutes to register and get to the point where I can ask a question. So I am going to try to get this done in one shot.
Is there a place with recommended GPU/Graphics card upgrades for specific PC systems?
There used to be. You could go to card manufacturers and they would provide a "configurator" to tell you what is *probably* your best options. I can find the hierarchy for video cards but that doesn't really help.
I want to play video games (i.e., Far Cry Primal.) My current system works but I would like to boost the "rezzing" at higher resolutions (2560 x 1440) on my 32" display. (I have poor eyesight.)
I don't need "bleeding edge" I just want to through the next couple of years before buying a new system.
Any help would be appreciated. Here are my "specs" that someone always asks for (but I would look it up myself if I could find it online...)
Radeon Software Version - 16.6.1
Radeon Software Edition - Crimson
Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Memory Size - 2048 MB
Memory Type - GDDR5
Core Clock - 1000 MHz
Windows Version - Windows 10 (64 bit)
System Memory - 8 GB
CPU Type - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Graphics Card Manufacturer - Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Device ID - 683D
Vendor ID - 1002
SubSystem ID - 6886
SubSystem Vendor ID - 103C
Revision ID - 00
Bus Type - PCI Express 3.0
Current Bus Settings - PCI Express 3.0 x16
BIOS Version - 015.014.000.004
BIOS Part Number - 113-C4680100-100
BIOS Date - 2012/01/31 01:34
Memory Size - 2048 MB
Memory Type - GDDR5
Memory Clock - 1125 MHz
Core Clock - 1000 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth - 72 GByte/s
2D Driver File Path - /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/Class/{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}/0000
Radeon Settings Version - 2016.0602.1651.28487
Driver Packaging Version - 16.20.1025-160602a-303160E
Provider - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2D Driver Version - 8.1.1.1558
Direct3D® Version - 9.14.10.1197
OpenGL® Version - 6.14.10.13440
OpenCL™ Version - 2.0.6.0
AMD Mantle Version - 9.1.10.123
AMD Mantle API Version - 98309
AMD Audio Driver Version - 10.0.0.3
Vulkan Driver Version - 9.1.0.10.11.0
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| OS Name | Microsoft Windows 10 Home |
| Version | 10.0.10586 Build 10586 |
| Other OS Description | Not Available |
| OS Manufacturer | Microsoft Corporation |
| System Name | BASE-HP |
| System Manufacturer | Hewlett-Packard |
| System Model | h8-1240t |
| System Type | x64-based PC |
| System SKU | A5U31AV#ABA |
| Processor | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) |
| BIOS Version/Date | AMI 7.09, 3/14/2012 |
| SMBIOS Version | 2.7 |
| Embedded Controller Version | 255.255 |
| BIOS Mode | UEFI |
| BaseBoard Manufacturer | PEGATRON CORPORATION |
| BaseBoard Model | Not Available |
| BaseBoard Name | Base Board |
| Platform Role | Desktop |
| Secure Boot State | Off |
| PCR7 Configuration | Binding Not Possible |
| Windows Directory | C:\WINDOWS |
| System Directory | C:\WINDOWS\system32 |
| Boot Device | \Device\HarddiskVolume1 |
| Locale | United States |
| Hardware Abstraction Layer | Version = "10.0.10586.420" |
| |
| Installed Physical Memory (RAM) | 8.00 GB |
| Total Physical Memory | 7.96 GB |
| Available Physical Memory | 2.67 GB |
| Total Virtual Memory | 10.7 GB |
| Available Virtual Memory | 3.34 GB |
| Page File Space | 2.75 GB |
| Page File | C:\pagefile.sys |
| Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions | Yes |
| Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions | Yes |
| Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware | Yes |
| Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection | Yes |
| OS Name | Microsoft Windows 10 Home |
| Version | 10.0.10586 Build 10586 |
| Other OS Description | Not Available |
| OS Manufacturer | Microsoft Corporation |
| System Name | BASE-HP |
| System Manufacturer | Hewlett-Packard |
| System Model | h8-1240t |
| System Type | x64-based PC |
| System SKU | A5U31AV#ABA |
| Processor | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) |
| BIOS Version/Date | AMI 7.09, 3/14/2012 |
| SMBIOS Version | 2.7 |
| Embedded Controller Version | 255.255 |
| BIOS Mode | UEFI |
| BaseBoard Manufacturer | PEGATRON CORPORATION |
| BaseBoard Model | Not Available |
| BaseBoard Name | Base Board |
| Platform Role | Desktop |
| Secure Boot State | Off |
| PCR7 Configuration | Binding Not Possible |
| Windows Directory | C:\WINDOWS |
| System Directory | C:\WINDOWS\system32 |
| Boot Device | \Device\HarddiskVolume1 |
| Locale | United States |
| Hardware Abstraction Layer | Version = "10.0.10586.420" |
| User Name | Base-HP\Base |
| Time Zone | Pacific Daylight Time |
| Installed Physical Memory (RAM) | 8.00 GB |
| Total Physical Memory | 7.96 GB |
| Available Physical Memory | 2.67 GB |
| Total Virtual Memory | 10.7 GB |
| Available Virtual Memory | 3.34 GB |
| Page File Space | 2.75 GB |
| Page File | C:\pagefile.sys |
| Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions | Yes |
| Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions | Yes |
| Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware | Yes |
| Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection | Yes |
