I need a little vid-card advice

[SnaFuBAR]

Well, here's the deal. I got a free computer from a co-worker's son. All it needed was a HDD, sound card and video card (and for my purposes, a multi card reader & wireless card). The video card it has right now is a pathetic little 64 mb card.

I'm going to be spending a little over $2K on a new tablet pc that will kick the crap out of my tower.... but in the meantime, I only have this tower to work with, as my laptop is going to be shipped out for testing due to a lawsuit against the manufacturer. I want to spend less than 70 dollars on a gfx card :lol:, and of course found some on newegg.com.

Can anyone make a suggestion for me on any of these here?



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103167

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125033

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127269

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102078

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133010

[Cortexian]

AGP or PCI-E?

AGP:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141038R

PCI-E x16:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131046

I would go for one of those two.

[SnaFuBAR]

whoops. pci

[Xetsuei]

e-GeForce 7600GS 256MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130075)
Had it in one of my older pc's. It works great with just about everything.

[InnerGoat]

whoops. pci
I hope you mean PCIe... If so, 7600gs. If you really are stuck on plain old PCI... 6200.

Xet thats a GS.

[Xetsuei]

Xet thats a GS.

So?

[InnerGoat]

GS and GT are not the same.

[Xetsuei]

GS and GT are not the same.

It's still a good video card.

[mR_r0b0to]

besides, that's PCIe
and snaf needs PCI
get a 6200

[legionaire45]

Xetsuei™;39334']e-GeForce 7600GT 256MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130075)
Had it in one of my older pc's. It works great with just about everything.

thats probably the best out of the bunch. Out of the cards that you linked to the best are the 7300 GS and LE because the others are all old SM2.0 cards or they flat out suck or are simply vastly outdated.

[edit]wait...PCI?

not too many options there, but your best bet would have to be either a 6200, low end 7 series card with PCI of some kind or an X1300 with PCI. All are pretty expensive for the performance though.

[SnaFuBAR]

well i now i don't know if my board is pci or pci-e.... how do i check for this? i don't have any papers from the mobo.

damn, i'm used to mobile pc's.... which is why i'm getting that tablet. having a tower is nice though, i'm beginning to realize.

[Zeph]

Whatever low end card you choose, get the latest generation. 7xxx > X1xxx > 6xxx > Xxxx > 9xxx > 5xxx

[mR_r0b0to]

you might have AGP too :/
look inside the case to check.

http://www.tomshardware.pl/motherboard/20041027/images/agp-express.jpg
the top is PCI express, the bottom is AGP.

PCI:
http://images.tomshardware.com/2005/11/23/pc_interfaces_101/pci_slot.jpg

[SnaFuBAR]

hell... looks like i have both. there's one labled agp, and the rest say pci, but they look like pic-e :wtc:

also, crazy, my case has 6 fans. that's not including what's on the boards.

also... you forgot the pic of pci

[legionaire45]

http://www.usuarios.lycos.es/etrades/img/sikmo_jinak_big.jpg
The order of the expansion slots from top to bottom is as follows:
PCI Express 1X
PCI Express 16X
AGP (or the wider yellow slot)
PCI
PCI
PCI

You are looking at the stuff just below the chipset fan, which is below the CPU socket.

[Reaper Man]

It would help if you told us what mobo you're using snaf.

[I_Am_Error117]

It would help if you told us what mobo you're using snaf.


probably can't, he doesnt seem to be the most hardware savy guy.

[SnaFuBAR]

i would be able to if i had purchased this computer. it was a scratch system which was given to me.

i helped my friend build his computer, which was undoubtably easier, being that we knew what parts we had :/

[slik90]

any video card that only cost $75 will not work very well in any kind of good res. on any game just get a new MB with built in VIDeo at least 256mbof vid ram
look @ www.pcplusohio.com

[I_Am_Error117]

i would be able to if i had purchased this computer. it was a scratch system which was given to me.

i helped my friend build his computer, which was undoubtably easier, being that we knew what parts we had :/

but you dont know what PCI-e or AGp looks like??????!?!?!?!?!?!? :eek:

[SnaFuBAR]

yes... that's the case >_>.... anyways, i bought an ati radeon x1050 for 85 bucks over at bestbuy so....

agp 8x, 256mb good 'nuff. thanks for the help guys

[legionaire45]

yes... that's the case >_>.... anyways, i bought an ati radeon x1050 for 85 bucks over at bestbuy so....

agp 8x, 256mb good 'nuff. thanks for the help guys

you bought a rebranded R300 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon#DirectX_9.0_-_OpenGL_2.0)!!! D=

ignore PR numbers!!! they are teh bullshit!!!! Atty told me to tell you to kill yourself NOW!

[mR_r0b0to]

return it.
get this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143083
it should be better.

[Xetsuei]

return it.
get this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143083
it should be better.

Yeah.