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Hi forum. My Lenovo MoBo does not let Nvidia 570GTX to be installed. I could be wrong but this information was obtained from Lenovo's support link for drivers: support.lenovo.com/ca/en/downloads/ds041866 This link shows that 90% Nvidia GPUs can be installed EXCEPT mine.. Feels Bad Man.... I really want to use 570GTX no matter what. This Lenovo MoBo was scraped from a ThinkCentre M81 SFF 7 years old PC. Only solution I could think of is replacing the Lenovo Mobo but I want to check if CPU, or RAM are involved? (sorry Im a noob) Note: GPU doent show up in device mgr, bios, I reset cmos, psu is fine, tried AMD card and it worked fine, so definitely a driver problem. Thank you for reading

You are right. After some research I am now looking for gtx 1050 ti instead of r7 250. This is fun.

Thanks! Today I went out to buy it. Seller had four Thinkcentres. I chose the one with broken cd rom drive and only paid CAD$105. Next, I need a preowned low profile Radeon R7 250 from ebay. PSU is only 250W but low profile graphics should be ok.

My bad E8400 & Q8400. And I screwed up on Hyperthread description -_-. Thanks for pointing out Case size... Below are the links to Craigslist #1 https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/sys/d/hp-z400-workstation-266ghz/6375542141.html #2 https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/sys/d/dell-precision-t3500-xeon/6376760324.html #3 https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/sys/d/wireless-dell-quad-core/6381813124.html #4 https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/rch/sys/d/school-games-computer/6334984582.html #5 https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/bnc/sys/d/reduced-thinkcentre-m81-igb/6384384787.html #6 https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/bnc/sys/d/older-gaming-desktop/6346584354.html

Craigslist 6 got cut out of the screen.. please see imgur link : https://imgur.com/gallery/rF4HG

Instead of buying a Console (never owned any), I decided to buy 'Two' budget (CAD$150~$200) & outdated (CPU released in 2008~2011) PCs on Craigslist to enjoy old school games like WoW. This way my entire family could enjoy gaming & multi media. Also, I've never owned a gaming PC before so I missed out the entire WoW era. I always wanted to give it a shot. From Craigslist I found 6 ideal computers that has decent CPUs, DRR3 RAM. If my theory is correct I just need install 5~7 years old 1GB Graphics Card for $30 and play Vanilla WoW. IMGUR Link: List of used budget gaming PCs on Craigslist Which two PCs would you buy? Anything I am not thinking of? I am happy if I could use them for minimum 2 years. 1.) Craigslist 1 & 2: I like W3520 because of quad & hyperthread. Also seller is offering decent RAM size 2.) Craigslist 3 &4: Older CPUs. Perhaps too old? If they have at least 2 years life left I wouldn't mind 3.) Craigslist 5: i5 2400 is the best CPU among here. Only problem? is its case is one of those slim Think ThinkCenter ones. Not sure if a Low Profile graphics could fit? 4.) Craigstlist 6: Almost a decade old CPU but comes with SSD, free monitor, keyboard which I could save money on. So I could buy this and spend more money on GPU? Craigslist 1 Craigslist 2 Craigslist 3 Craigslist 4 Craigslist 5 Craigslist 6 Price ($CAD) $200 $180 $150 $150 $150 $150 CPU Xeon W3520 Xeon W3530 i2 Q8400 i2 E6750 i5 2400 i2 E8400 Speed 2.66 2.8 2.66 2.66 3.10 3.00 Cache 8 8 4 4 6 4 Year Released 2009 2010 2009 2007 2011 2007 Core 4 4 4 2 4 2 HyperT 8 8 RAM (DDR3) 12 9 4 8 8 4 HDD 250 250 250 320 200 SSD 180 Graphics Nvidia Quadro FX 580 Nvidia Quadro FX 580 NVidia GeForce 310 XFX Radeon HD4770 i5 2400 integrated AMD Radeon HD6800 PSU ? ? ? ? ? ?