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pspfreak2
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17. September 2005 @ 20:17 |
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Hey every1,
I currently own a:
Compaq Presario Computer System
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 26004
2.13 GHz, 480MB of RAM
And I own a graphic card:
S3 graphics Pro Savage DDR
32mb graphic card
Directx 9.0c
Anyways, I'm thinking of upgrading my graphic card, because as you can tell S3 graphics suck and my graphic card isn't worth shit!
So I was wondering If anyone could tell me what are the best graphic cards out there today. Because I want to buy a card for gaming and so on.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thnx =:)
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17. September 2005 @ 20:19 |
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I would say the 7800gtx but the 6800gt is a cracking wee gfx card.
aye aye man
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pspfreak2
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17. September 2005 @ 20:26 |
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Are any of those cards made by ATI?
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pspfreak2
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17. September 2005 @ 20:33 |
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What graphic manufacturer is better for all of todays new PC games ?
ATI or Nvidia
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17. September 2005 @ 20:46 |
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Sorry both cards are Nvidia, i would say Nvidia have the upper hand with the gfx cards right now.
aye aye man
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ddp
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17. September 2005 @ 20:49 |
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see if your motherboard has an agp slot as most likely the s3 card is built into the motherboard
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rugripper
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17. September 2005 @ 21:07 |
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do you have pcie?you need that for a 7800gtx.if you have agp the 6800gt or ultra is pretty good.if you have regular old style pci slot,which is a different slot then pcie,id go build a new pc with a better motherboard.you can use your case possibly and your hard drive,cdrom,dvd,etc.motherboards are cheap about $35usd and up.posibly use the same 2600+ or upgrade to a 64 bit cpu.you could buy a cheap video card for about 200-300usd[agp or pcie,dont buy a regular pci video card wont be able to play many games not fast enough].then you can get your battlefield 2 on or what ever you want to play.i play every game including fear demo on my 2800+ with a gf 6800gt agp,768 ram[memory]looks real good to.doom i can play on medium my processor is slow,but it looks and plays fine.hope this helped peace
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pspfreak2
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17. September 2005 @ 21:26 |
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Thnx ever1 for all your help!
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pspfreak2
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17. September 2005 @ 21:28 |
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One more question...
Why would the card be built into agp slot? Do all graphic cards nowadays come like that?
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18. September 2005 @ 05:31 |
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The onboard card is not built into the AGP slot, if there is one. It is built into the motherboard.
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rugripper
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18. September 2005 @ 05:42 |
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yea like grandpa said,its builtinto the motherboard which always is a slower interface.so get a motherboard without onboard video.i think the asrock939-sata2 motherboard dosnt have onboard video but you will have to change the processor or cpu.
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ddp
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18. September 2005 @ 08:52 |
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what is the model# of the presario so can see what the motherboard has or doesn't have on it
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rugripper
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18. September 2005 @ 09:31 |
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go to compaqs website look up make and model,see what is in the pc.klike agp slot or integrated video and pci slots.you should be able to read about what was originaly put in your pc and what is compatable or what you can upgrade to.
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