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I am thinking to purchase a new card to be used with my Lenovo ThinkCentre M57. This time, I am thinking to get the Sapphire ATI HD 6570. Before I buy that card, I would like to know that if this is going to work with my Lenovo ThinkCentre M57? Please suggest me if you are having some other better option for me.
I would like to tell you that the ATI 5xxx and 6xxx Graphics cards are not having support for the Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 and so I think that they will not work with your Lenovo ThinkCentre M57.
There is one more good alternative that I would like to tell you and that is NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT. I am using the same and having great experience with this. I always recommend my friends for this and so telling you the same. I can say that this really worth for its price.
If the ATI 5xxx and 6xxx Graphics cards don’t support the Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 then you can also consider to have ATI radeon hd 4600. This is designed according to the manufacturer for the medium price segment, and will lend it to higher performance in games and in HD. Among the new graphics card series Radeon HD4600 models are the two ATI Radeon HD 4670 and ATI Radeon HD 4650. Both models are based on AMD's 55-nanometer architecture; support DirectX 10.1 and the cards will eat less power as compared to a standard light bulb, because AMD have told that the Radeon HD 4670 is with power consumption at complete load at 60 watts and Radeon HD 4650 at 50 watts.
Yes, I also think that getting between ATI Radeon HD 4670 and Radeon HD 4650 will be better option for you. The ATI Radeon HD 4670 and Radeon HD 4650 is AMD's TeraScale graphics engine and features 320 stream processor cores.
It will be better for you to look at the specification of both of these and this will give you better idea regarding that.
ATI Radeon HD 4650:
- 600 MHz core speed
- 667 MHz memory speed
- 512 MB of DDR2 or GDDR3 memory
- 21.3 GB / s memory bandwidth
- 320 Stream Processors
- 384 GFLOPS of compute shader power
- 16 TMUs
- UVD2 Video Processing Engine
- 55 W TDP, 55nm Silicon Fab. Process
ATI Radeon HD 4670:
- 750 MHz core speed
- 1000 MHz memory speed
- 512/1024 MB of GDDR3 memory
- 32 GB / s memory bandwidth
- 320 Stream Processors
- 480 GFLOPS of compute shader power
- 16 TMUs
- UVD2 Video Processing Engine
- 70 W TDP, 55nm Silicon Fab. Process
I am also having the Lenovo ThinkCentre M57 and using the ATI Radeon HD 5450 with this. It gives me quite decent performance and there is no problem with this. I am happy with this card. It is totally compatible and if you want then you can also get the same. I am sure that you will not regret your purchase.
Better option for you is, when you go for any of the card then before actually buying that, just look at the supported device and see if your device is listed there or not. If it is listed then there is no doubt that it will work with that but if it is not listed then no one can give guarantee that it will function properly.
Why don’t you directly contact to the Lenovo support and ask them that whether that card is supported or not. You will get the best response from them and that will be accurate. I think that it is the best thing that you can do to make it sure.