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Need new Graphics Card

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 8:35 pm
by Wasted
Mine is lame, it's Matrox, stfu, I need a new one.
Less than £30, ideas now please. With linx.
Cheaper is better.
If not, what should I be looking for.

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 8:51 pm
by Siva
Geigh m7 wrote:Less than £30,
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... l?NOV-4350
ATI HD4350
Your only choice

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 8:52 pm
by ~[ß]Lost~
Do you need PCI-E or AGP?
Re: Need new Graphics Card

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 10:09 pm
by Tantalus
Geigh m7 wrote:Mine is lame, it's Matrox, stfu, I need a new one.
Less than £30, ideas now please. With linx.
Cheaper is better.
If not, what should I be looking for.
Do you want it for just general usage or for gaming?

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 10:12 pm
by Wasted
I'd like to say general use but lately I just surf a little, play DX and use MSN.
On this computer anyway.
Whats the difference?
'Do you need PCI-E or AGP?'
Wut

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 10:18 pm
by ~[ß]Lost~
Geigh m7 wrote:I'd like to say general use but lately I just surf a little, play DX and use MSN.
On this computer anyway.
Whats the difference?
'Do you need PCI-E or AGP?'
Wut
Just how old is your computer? If it's like few years old now, it uses AGP. General use and playing DX, Nvidia 7xxx series is good enough


Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 10:18 pm
by Tantalus
It's the motherboard connection type. We HAVE to know.
How old is this computer exactly? That'll give easy indication.

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 10:20 pm
by ~[ß]Lost~
The Grand Inquisitor wrote:It's the motherboard connection type. We HAVE to know.
How old is this computer exactly? That'll give easy indication.
Exactly


Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 10:36 pm
by clyzm
8400 GT Silent
if AGP, anything above GeForce 6 series.

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 10:49 pm
by Tantalus
I predict Graphics War.

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 10:50 pm
by clyzm
Radeon's alright too I guess.
You can buy a 4830 on eBay for about $50

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 10:54 pm
by Siva
Are you SURE you meant 4830?

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 10:57 pm
by Tantalus
We're jumping ahead of ourselves here.
I'll reinstate. How old is your computer, Geigh?

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:03 pm
by Wasted
Who you calling geigh?

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:16 pm
by Wasted
Old Computer by the way, yes
I think
It aint new
How new would it need to be to be the new one?
If I get warned for Double Post I think I'm banned so act quickly

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:19 pm
by Tantalus
If it's been purchased within probably 4 years you have PCI-E but anything after is mostly AGP.

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:21 pm
by Alex
You can always try to get a monkey that draws pictures really fast.
And I'd indeed go for the 8400 series, of nVidia.
'Asus EN8400GS/HTP/256M' apparently is able to play Call of Duty 4, on low/medium. (PCI-e)

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:21 pm
by Wasted
AGP then
What now, what you recommending.
What Sike said or what Protocol said
Eh
Quick I just flamed Psychotic

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:25 pm
by Tantalus
Quick, stop baiting.
I'd probably go for a 7 series then. Any will do.

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:27 pm
by Alex
If you want to be sure, you can always open your PC, and look for the slots:
AGP slot:
(The brown one)
PCI-e slot:
The white slots are PCI slots.
You can also consider to get a PCI graphics card. I actually have 2 graphic cards in my PC, one PCI-e and one PCI.
8600GT and 8500GT. Both run fine.

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:40 pm
by Wasted

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:46 pm
by Alex
First: PCI-e
Second: PCI-e
Third: PCI-e
Fourth: PCI-e
Fifth: PCI-e
All PCI-e. People concluded that you don't have a PCI-e slot. Thus you can't use those.
Try opening your PC (Unplug the power!) and check for available slots on your motherboard.

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:52 pm
by Wasted
You could've simply said
'I don't like any of those'
'They're all great but personally <whatever>'
'You're an amazing person but one problem is that <whatever>'
But no
You go and make me feel silly
fu alex
gimme link to good card 4 me assuming i have the shit thing that isnt new

Posted:
Wed Mar 04, 09 11:54 pm
by Alex
I'd check if you have PCI-e or not. Hell, maybe you don't even have AGP.
Eventually you
will have to open your PC, just to stick in the graphics card. So why not check now?
Also, if it's a PC from a brand like HP etc, just give us the model name, then we can look up what slots it has


Posted:
Thu Mar 05, 09 12:03 am
by Wasted
Its Compaq
It says this on it
D31m/P266/40/k/256r UK
K
Enjoy

Posted:
Thu Mar 05, 09 12:21 am
by ~DJ~
There is no slot in my motherboard???
HAX

Posted:
Thu Mar 05, 09 1:25 am
by clyzm
Protocol wrote:Are you SURE you meant 4830?
A new 4830 from Sapphire is $99.
Used is $50 and lower.

Posted:
Thu Mar 05, 09 6:42 am
by clyzm
By the way, if you have an AGP slot, best I could find for you is
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814161153
Though don't expect to play Crysis on full settings with it lol.
Edit:
Googled your Compaq, came up with this (closest):
http://www.ambry.com/page/modelnu/47003 ... 2-001.html
If its close to that, then it definitely has an AGP slot.

Posted:
Thu Mar 05, 09 7:32 am
by Mr. Tastix
WTF is the difference between PCI-e and PCI?

Posted:
Thu Mar 05, 09 10:31 am
by clyzm
Faster transfer rate I think.