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whats a good graphics card for Compaq presario 5000?
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DBZB126
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28. November 2006 @ 18:28 |
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hi. i have a really old computer, about 4 years old. its a Compaq Presario 5000. my graphics card sucks, its a nVidia Geforce2 MX 100/200 with only 64 mb ram. i need/want a better graphics card, that has atleast 128 mb ram. i searched on google, but i cant find any.
can anyone point out some good and cheap ones for me?
thanks a bunch!
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28. November 2006 @ 19:27 |
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i have a heavily upgrade hp pavillion 7845(nothing orginal other than mobo case and power supply) had same graphics card when i bought it expect 32MB Ram ran REALLY REALLY nice i had to replace it tho cause i could play some games that req. 64mb vrma but most of the games i bought came up with errors saying that i neeeded a betta video card ANYWAY i bought a radeon 9250 cheap nothing fancy 256mb ram so it will get all ur decent games but nothing like battlefeild 2 or advance games but its a good buy
1.2ghz T-Bird OH YEAH!
512mb ram OH YEAH!
radeon 9250 256mb ram OH YEAH!
200gb Maxtor 7200rpm OH YEAH!
Creatavie Labs 5.1 OH YEAH!
ok the proccer is MEDIOCAIRE
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DBZB126
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29. November 2006 @ 13:11 |
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cool, but the problem is, that graphics doesnt have a driver for vista, and i need it. is there a good graphics card under 60 bucks, that has drivers for vista?
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DBZB126
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29. November 2006 @ 16:13 |
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ddp
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29. November 2006 @ 17:11 |
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DBZB126
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29. November 2006 @ 17:45 |
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ddp
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29. November 2006 @ 18:06 |
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you have a p3 or equivalent amd cpu. pci/e slot(s) are on p4 socket 775 or equivalent amd cpu. what color are the expansion slots as pci are usually white & an agp is brown?
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DBZB126
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29. November 2006 @ 18:49 |
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the slots are white.
so are you saying the card will work? or no?
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29. November 2006 @ 19:53 |
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You have only PCi slots thus meaning most good cards will not work a radeon 9250 PCI version will but it has much slower bandwidth then the AGP version meaning some games that require a larger transfer via the Graphics card to other commponents it will lag PCi i think only has 133mb/ps transfer while agp 4x and 8x have 4x and 8x more bandwidth and PCiE has 16x more then PCI one other pci set back is that it shrares the bandwidth with every slot say you plug in somethign tha uses 71mb/ps you only have 71mb/ps left for all oyu other slots meaning even crapier transfer so if you have any other PCi cards pkuged in when you buy or if you buy a PCi card I would recommend taking the cards out to give the graphics card more transfer rate meaning you will have better graphics
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DBZB126
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30. November 2006 @ 03:21 |
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well, i dont want the card for playing games. i never play games on my comp. i want a card that supports windows vista aero interface.
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ddp
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30. November 2006 @ 06:20 |
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get a new computer than if want to use vista as wants 512meg of ram plus about 14gig of hd space.
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DBZB126
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30. November 2006 @ 12:16 |
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i have 1GB of ram, and 160 GB of HDD space. :)
i already have it installed, just the aero interface wont work.
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ddp
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30. November 2006 @ 13:24 |
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Will my PC run Vista?
That depends on how recently you bought it and just how much Vista you want. To get the basics, like the new search abilities and improved security, you'll need a PC with 512MB of memory, an 800MHz processor and a 20GB hard drive with at least 15GB of free space. But to see Vista in all its glory, particularly its new Aero graphics, you'll really need a relatively modern video card with around 128MB of dedicated graphics memory or, for a system with shared systems and graphics memory, you'll need 1GB of memory.
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