Be sure to check your case dimensions. That looks like a huge card. Hope you have a monster PC case. the HD 5830 barely squeezed into mine. When it first came to market back in 2000 the Thermal Take: Tsunami Dream I use was one of the largest all aluminum cases you could get. When I installed the HD5830 a few months ago I had to remove a drive bay for the install and now the back of my video card is almost resting against the reinstalled bay. The GTX 580 looks to be at least as big as the HD 58xx series.
Your motherboard should be fine. 2 things to check though- make sure the card is going to fit in your pc 34.2 x 26 x 7.5 cm and make sure you have a big enough power supply at least a 600 watt for a gtx 580
anyways here the system requirements from Nvidia
PCI Express 2.0-compliant motherboard with one dual-width x16 graphics slot one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCI Express supplementary power connector
A minimum 600W or greater system power supply (with a minimum 12V current rating of 42A)4
Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon XP class processor or higher
200MB of available hard disk space
2GB system memory (4GB recommended)
Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 Operating System (32 or 64-bit)
DVD-ROM drive for installation
DVI or HDMI or VGA compatible monitor
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how do i find out?
Cheers
Rick
If your Motherboard is newer than 2007, then you can probably get the card. If it is older, then you might, but it won't perform as good as it should.
Serial Number: MT7001K33102104
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0403 12/25/2009
got that from belarc advisor, is that what i am looking for?
do you need any more info? i wanna be 100% sure before i spend £350+
sorry i'm not to much help, I am ok with most things but i draw the line at lots of numbers hehe
anyways here the system requirements from Nvidia
PCI Express 2.0-compliant motherboard with one dual-width x16 graphics slot one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCI Express supplementary power connector
A minimum 600W or greater system power supply (with a minimum 12V current rating of 42A)4
Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon XP class processor or higher
200MB of available hard disk space
2GB system memory (4GB recommended)
Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 Operating System (32 or 64-bit)
DVD-ROM drive for installation
DVI or HDMI or VGA compatible monitor
I have this PSU, so that should be ok right?
Just had the ruler out and measured to be sure and is a-ok hehe
you'll be fine ye just make sure you got room in the case and your good to go.