Author Topic: graphics card (Read 2563 times)

KIDwild · « **on:** August 07, 2008, 02:26:41 AM »

how can i know that my pc can support a graphic card.?

Blaze · « **Reply #1 on:** August 07, 2008, 03:18:47 AM »

I lol'd.

KIDwild · « **Reply #2 on:** August 07, 2008, 05:16:32 AM »

what i meant was.

how do i know if my pc can support a certain graphic card....

common sense..

Fallen · « **Reply #3 on:** August 07, 2008, 05:58:31 AM »

windows XP

start-run and write dxdiag

Mythic · « **Reply #4 on:** August 07, 2008, 06:09:18 AM »

Seriously Fallen, don't write if you don't know what you're speaking of.

Fallen · « **Reply #5 on:** August 07, 2008, 06:46:15 AM »

Quote from: Mythic

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 -.-

GT-7 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 07, 2008, 07:15:39 AM »

Well lol Fallen. Just check does your motherboard have for example PCI Express x16 if the graphic card requires one.

Daksad · « **Reply #7 on:** August 07, 2008, 07:47:51 AM »

Also your psu has to be powerful enough and you need enough ram

WaDaFuG · « **Reply #8 on:** August 07, 2008, 08:59:42 AM »

Well, since most MoBo's have PCI-E slots, I guess you don't need to worry. Unless you have a hella old PC

Hope this helps

Joe · « **Reply #9 on:** August 07, 2008, 10:14:50 AM »

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.

Mikk · « **Reply #10 on:** August 07, 2008, 01:51:13 PM »

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?

Mythic · « **Reply #11 on:** August 07, 2008, 02:01:29 PM »

Quote from: Joe

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/
-> Forums
-> PC hardware

Juan · « **Reply #12 on:** August 07, 2008, 10:07:04 PM »

Quote from: LeXuS

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.

Neo Anderson · « **Reply #13 on:** August 08, 2008, 12:48:17 PM »

If you know your PC has an AGP card then you need an AGP card, that's it.

VenomX · « **Reply #14 on:** August 08, 2008, 01:24:23 PM »

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 .