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General => General Discussion => Computer Talk => Topic started by: KIDwild on August 07, 2008, 02:26:41 AM
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how can i know that my pc can support a graphic card.?
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I lol'd.
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what i meant was.
how do i know if my pc can support a certain graphic card....
common sense..
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windows XP
start-run and write dxdiag
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Seriously Fallen, don't write if you don't know what you're speaking of.
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Seriously Fallen, don't write if you don't know what you're speaking of.
omg if he open dxdiag he can wwatch system information -.-
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Well lol Fallen. Just check does your motherboard have for example PCI Express x16 if the graphic card requires one.
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Also your psu has to be powerful enough and you need enough ram
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Well, since most MoBo's have PCI-E slots, I guess you don't need to worry. Unless you have a hella old PC
(http://www.viaarena.com/images/articles/pcie%20002.jpg)
Hope this helps
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Mythic, nearly every answer you've posted in this forum is either extremely wrong, extremely misinformed or just stupid. So personally, I'd say that you are in no position to tell Fallen not to post if he doesn't know what he is talking about.
Basically, first off you need to make sure you have one of the following on your motherboard (which you will, just depends how old your computer is, it is most likely to be AGP or PCI-E)
- ISA
- MCA
- VLB
- PCI
- AGP
- PCI-X
- PCI Express
You then need to find out how much RAM you have (which can be found by dxdiag). And how powerful your PSU / processor are.
To find out your PSU, open up your case, and find the thing with all the wires coming out of it, read the stickers.
To find out your processor, dxdiag works again.
Then when shopping for a new graphics card, make sure your machine specs (which you have just got) meets them.
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tUDUDUD .. My comp is 6 years old now and uses AGP .. i dont know anything about the motherboard and the processor .. So i was planning to buy a new videocard but i dont know that would the comp read it .. so please help me too over here?
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Mythic, nearly every answer you've posted in this forum is either extremely wrong, extremely misinformed or just stupid.
Could you name ten posts (out of 2000, it should be easy) where im saying that im 100% right about something, and wrong at the same time?
And yes im in position to tell him not to give his shitty tips because by knowing your PC Statistics doesn't tell that does your PC support certain Graphics Card. Yes, it can be helpful, but I doubt that KIDwild knows enough about them so he could tell by his motherboard that does it support the card he is thinking about.
And instead of writing tens of lines trying to help, I could just say something a lot more helpful.
http://www.afterdawn.com/ (http://www.afterdawn.com/)
-> Forums
-> PC hardware
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tUDUDUD .. My comp is 6 years old now and uses AGP .. i dont know anything about the motherboard and the processor .. So i was planning to buy a new videocard but i dont know that would the comp read it .. so please help me too over here?
Dont think they sell agp cards anymore.
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If you know your PC has an AGP card then you need an AGP card, that's it.
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In which case, an NVIDIA 7800 may work, I believe thats the highest you can get with the AGP slots...would be nice if someone confirmed that though .
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If I was you , I wouldn't invest into a new AGP card. Just buy some new stuff , costs a little more but it's more worth it than buying old stuff
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If I was you , I wouldn't invest into a new AGP card. Just buy some new stuff , costs a little more but it's more worth it than buying old stuff
x2
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i dunno what cpu you got, but you could get a cheap motherboard with i dunno lets say you got socket 478 get a motherboard with pci express and then just get a cheaper graphicscard since you really get nice prices these days with pci-e cards.