Well you may be a noob,
Alex but they don’t make it easy.
The windows 8 (
E8850) specs =
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/Desktop/M11BB/XX09_E8850_M11BB.pdf They don’t give the motherboard specs because they don’t want to advertise it’s vintage… just post as a M11BB (
windows 8) and people on the Asus forum will know what you have.
I'm not getting a signal with the 6750 because my PSU is too small
Yes that’s the main stopper with that card… once you got it running, then all that extra power will also generate more heat and that could become an issue later because of the limited space for air to flow around the internal parts.
So if you buy a new G-card and a bigger PDU to power it AND a larger case for the cooling… at some point the Upgrade will become more expensive than building a new system which is the conundrum gamers run into a lot. At this point you may as well grab a cheap $50-100 motherboard and enjoy your games on something designed for handling the stress that a good G-card places on your system. As
nmsuk correctly points out, a pci-e slot will take a higher rated G-card and run it through the bottleneck as long as you can power it then it will boot but the actual performance it gives you just depends on to many factors and we can’t be sure.
Basic Option 1: buy a new G-card that your system can handle without needing extra parts (
stress the need to run it as is in your post). This is why I would lean towards the lower end G-cards because the power needs aren’t excessive and they tend to be cheap.
Basic Option 2: your mate already gave you a nice card so spend your dosh on a PDU instead… I hesitate to recommend this simply because I know where this path leads and many a hard core mod’da with systems that wouldn’t look out of place on the bridge of the star ship Enterprise, started out this way.
+ on the up side this system runs just fine (
as is) under normal work loads and was NOT designed to be a game rig… perhaps you have a sibling that wants it?
