SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY Radeon HD 7730 New graphic card, made my computer lag.

[ShiraQ]

SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY Radeon HD 7730. I installed the new graphics card and drivers with the disc it came with. Then after these steps my computer become incredibly slow. My guess is that it may have something with the power supply has too little capacity or that I have too little ram on the data.

(My motherboard: GA-M52L-S3P.)

Proccesor: AMD Athlon (tm) x2 250 Processor (2 CPUs) - 3.0GHZ

RAM: 2.00 GB

PSU: ATX TS500 (PFC) 500W


(Here is the new video card info.)

Graphics Engine AMD Radeon HD 7730

Core Clock 800 MHz

Stream Processors 384

Process Technology 28 nm

API Supported DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.2

Memory Size 1 GB

Technology GDDR5

System Requirements Min RAM Size 4 GB

Required Power Supply 400 W

 

[Mussels]

what was your old graphics card, and did you try the latest drivers from AMD?

 

[Hood]

Sounds like another AMD driver problem, try cleaning out all old video drivers, and installing the latest Catalyst driver compatible with your hardware.

 

[ShiraQ]

My old graphics card was ATI Radeon HD 4650th But I downloaded CPU-Z and saw that the # 1 RAM slot shows nothing. And the # 2 slot shows 2 gb. I suspect that one graphics card has broken recently. I'll go off to the store now and buy Additional 4g ram so I have 6GB. It says that the new video card needs 4GB or?

The graphic card info: System Requirements Min RAM Size 4 GB

 

[ShiraQ]

Can i use ddr3 graphic cards. On my motherboard ?

 

[Mussels]

Can i use ddr3 graphic cards. On my motherboard ?

yes. whats on the video card does not matter to the PC.


i'd say something went wrong with the drivers, and you need to try the latest AMD ones.


i have no idea where you're getting these ideas about needing more system ram - you can ignore that.

 

[shovenose]

Can you post pic of the side of your computer off so we can see the psu brand, ram config, etc.

 

[Hood]

My old graphics card was ATI Radeon HD 4650th But I downloaded CPU-Z and saw that the # 1 RAM slot shows nothing. And the # 2 slot shows 2 gb. I suspect that one graphics card has broken recently. I'll go off to the store now and buy Additional 4g ram so I have 6GB. It says that the new video card needs 4GB or?

The graphic card info: System Requirements Min RAM Size 4 GB

You really should use a matched pair of DIMMs (2 x 2GB, 2 x 4GB) to enable dual channel (twice the memory bandwidth). You also need a 64 bit operating system to use more than 4GB of RAM (Windows x32 will show only about 3.2 GB usable with 4GB installed). I suspect your RAM is bottlenecking the PCIe lanes/video card.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

You really should use a matched pair of DIMMs (2 x 2GB, 2 x 4GB) to enable dual channel (twice the memory bandwidth). You also need a 64 bit operating system to use more than 4GB of RAM (Windows x32 will show only about 3.2 GB usable with 4GB installed). I suspect your RAM is bottlenecking the PCIe lanes/video card.

memory in itself can not really cause pcie video card bottleneck.

OP are you on the newest AMD drivers?

 

[Vario]

Check cpu temps