Hd 7850 will be plenty of bang. Itll max out everything at that resolution and enough for a monitor upgrade down the road.
Solid_Link22
This one looks good. What kind of power supply would be suffiecient for this type of GPU?
At least $60-70 psu with 80% efficiency. 500w is plenty for the new cards even with overclocking. ~600-700w if you ever plan on a dual card setup. If you have already have a decent one in the wattage range I stated than it should be good, post a link here to double check.
Cosair, enermax, seasonic, silverstone are good brands. Don't cheap out, mines lasted for 4 years going 5, so is worth splurging.
At that resolution it would, but if you intend to upgrade the display than a beefier gpu maybe better. In retrospect 6850/70 is still around from 2 years ago.
Just so you know you can hookup the rig to a hdtv with a ps3/x360 controller, it'll gaming like a bawss.
my max resolution is 1440 x 900. What would be an ideal GPU that would play games at high settings using this resolution?
Solid_Link22
My son uses a gtx460(256bit version) and he currently games on a 20in HP monitor that is the same resolution. All his games run great. It is a bit hard to find one of those cards now. I was thinking about getting him another one for SLI but theyre a bit scarce. I would just get him a higher end card later but he really loves that Nvidia card! Lol
I use an overclocked GTX 460 at 1920 x 1080 and it runs like a champ! i haven't had a single problem running the newest games. Anything above the GTX 460 should be fine for you.
There's some definite overkill suggestions from a bunch of the above posts, 1440 x 900 isn't that high of a res. You'll be fine with a 460 or a 6850 or higher.
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