Help On GFX Card

[Shadowe]

Thanks Guys.... Still Accepting Advise If You have Any .. I Won't Get To The Store Till Prolly Wednesday

[Fozzer]

Here you go... ;)...!

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Drool... ...!

Paul.

[Shadowe]

J/W If even the lowest one the GeForce FX 5700 would boost my preformance? of course i will get a better card but i was curious


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[bm]

Please don't rush out and buy anything before you are certain what you are going to get. Looking at your specs it is quite possible that you will be unable to upgrade - You need to find out whether you have an AGP expansion slot, firstly whether you have one at all & if you do whether its x4 or x8 acceleration. The easiest way is to open up the side of your case & take a look. You will see 3 or 4 (probably beige) slots, hopefully you will see a slightly different sized slot (usually brown).

[Shadowe]

well i havent opned my case up but my manual says i have one that is 4x

[Shadowe]

ok i just opened my case and i dont have an agp slot but i do have a place on my mother board to mount one... i have 2 questions ... 1) will a pci card help any? and 2) can i buy an agp slot to mount on my mother board?.......


1 more question... will more ram increase my preformance?

[bm]

1) No.  2) No. 3) Possibly very slightly but you'd be flogging a dead horse.  :(

[alrot]

ok i just opened my case and i dont have an agp slot but i do have a place on my mother board to mount one... i have 2 questions ... 1) will a pci card help any? and 2) can i buy an agp slot to mount on my mother board?.......


1 more question... will more ram increase my preformance?

Unless you get an PCI video card (wich also are very good)no way out pal.....sorry  :-[

[Shadowe]

I heard the GeForce FX 5200 is a pretty good PCI GFX card ..... is this true???

[alrot]

I heard the GeForce FX 5200 is a pretty good PCI GFX card ..... is this true???

Indeed!Just make sure that your motherboard is 2x 4x compatible,

[the_autopilot]

Any card is better than your integrated gfx.

I recommened a 6600 gt agp. It will boost your performence by far and is the best bang for your buck. The geforce FX series are notoriously bad cards (horrible dx9 support) and you should get one only if all you have is PCI.

[Shadowe]

K Thanks

[bm]

Ok - Yes it will improve performance slightly But is there any point That is never going to be a suitable machine for FS.

If I were you though I'd start saving up for a new beast - and no Dells/HP/Compaq/Emachines/Tiny etc this time :-/

[Skligmund]

He ha sno AGP slot.
He has a PCI slot.
He has integrated graphics.

A Geforce FX5200 or FX5500 will substantually increase his performance over the integrated graphics solution. Get one.

Don't go out buying a card based on the above benchmark results, they were based on version 1.1, which has been superceded by version 1.2.

Also, it is a synthetic benchmark, put it up on a real game and see the difference.






But again, he has only the option for PCI grahics, which is much better than integrated.

[alrot]

(horrible dx9 support).

  ....AGREE!