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Gavinhenderson5
By Gavinhenderson5
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So around Christmas time in 2011 I received an Asus PC. It was before i really knew much about PC's. If I was to get one now I would probably build my own but now I am looking to upgrade because I can only just run games at low quality.

So I have an ASUS CM-1730 and the specs are:

AMD Athlon II X4 645 Processor 3.10GHz

6Gb RAM (Not sure what type but i guess just standard Asus RAM)

Win 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

1Tb HDD

AMD Radeon HD 7400M Series

I want to know what I should get to upgrade. If you need more info to help me just let me know

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Definitely a new graphics card. The other parts will be fine for some time. For example you could get a Radeon HD 7870 or a 7850. They should be able to play almost all games on max.

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Definitely a new graphics card. The other parts will be fine for some time. For example you could get a Radeon HD 7870 or a 7850. They should be able to play almost all games on max.
Thanks I'll probably go that route. I want to sell me card although apparently AMD Radeon 7400M isnt a card its the GPU or something. Do you know if there is a way i can check the name of my card with software.
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Definitely a new graphics card. The other parts will be fine for some time. For example you could get a Radeon HD 7870 or a 7850. They should be able to play almost all games on max.
You probably wont get more than a dollar or two for that card, so i wouldnt bother. Give it away if you have a friend that needs one.
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7400M? I don't think it's a physical card... sounds like some kind of integrated motherboard GPU. Who knows what kind of graphics your power supply could handle though... If you can find a spare 6-pin PCI Express power from the power supply then that's good, but if you don't have any PCIe power plugs available then a Radeon HD 7750 would the highest you could go.

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Yeah 7400M is chipset graphics. (remember those days :)

If you're going to put a graphics card of any sort I would upgrade the power supply. Most OEM PC's barely have a big enough PSU to power the components in them.

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7400M? I don't think it's a physical card... sounds like some kind of integrated motherboard GPU. Who knows what kind of graphics your power supply could handle though... If you can find a spare 6-pin PCI Express power from the power supply then that's good, but if you don't have any PCIe power plugs available then a Radeon HD 7750 would the highest you could go.
It is not on the motherboard. There is a physical card on a PCIe slot
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