Re: XC 605 graphic card change?

Tomberrox — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:44:50 GMT

Hello Jordan,

I kindly thank you for your answer and your dedication to my issue.

I think I found the model I bought here : http://fr.acer.ch/ac/fr/CH/content/model/DT.STEEZ.005

As specified, it only has a 220W power supply, as you thought it might...

So I guess this card is off limits for me.

Best regards,

Tomberrox.

XC 605 graphic card change?

Tomberrox — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 22:36:21 GMT

Greetings,

I'll start this conversation by saying that I always liked ACER products, my last computer was an ACER aspire laptop 7738 series that lasted me for over 4 years! I played WoW, fallout new vegas and many games with this little fella.

I have bought an ACER XC-605 with windows 8.1 a few days ago and I'm generally satisfied, OS runs fine, so does web surfing, multitasking and such.

My main problem comes from the graphic card, it was (in my local shop, not by ACER itself) advertized as a powerful yet compact computer. I knew the Nvidia GEForce GT705 was average for a gaming card, but I mainly play games such as WoW, so I figured it would do the trick for a medium-setting experience.

Well it is not the case at all. Even on lowest settings, the game struggles to have a stable 30FPS, Even heartstone sutters in medium graphics (A card game!).

Having invested so much of my student savings to be not able to play the game with some average efficiency... I feel a little down... I tried running with DirectX9 instead of 11, updated my drivers, looked around in the graphics options, there's no end : The card just doesn't make it!

I could be disposed to upgrade the card, since christmas is around the corner, but I would like to know first :

-What card should I pick if I wanted to upgrade, I heard there is a lot of compatibility stuff to check between the graphic card and the voltage, and with the motherboard also. but as you propbably guessed from the beginning of my post, I am not very tech sawy with computer hardware
-What if I can't upgrade it? =(

I thank you with the force of a thousand suns in advance.

Best regards,

Tomberrox.

PS : Since there are a few versions of the ASPIRE XC-605, here are the specs :
Intel core i5 4460
12GB DDR3 RAM

HDD 1TB

NVidia GEforce GT705 1GB dedicated

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Re: XC 605 graphic card change?

XC 605 graphic card change?