Ok so I'm looking to upgrade my old graphics card on my PC to play a few games.
I'm not much of a tech head so I looked around the net and forums and got some second hand info. Still dont know what to do though.
My system was pretty decent when I got it but now its a bit aged. I wanna breathe a little life into the old girl in the graphics area
before it becomes ancient. The existing Leadtek graphics card was great at the time but now I want to see if I can get more elsewhere.
The graphics are choppy and they stutter if I tweak the default settings slightly when playing NFS Undercover or Fifa 09 .
I'm looking to get one good graphics card as I have no intention of running 2 on SLI. So what can you guys suggest?
I'm looking at GIGABYTE cards (affordable for me)
(And dont bother telling me to scrap it and get a new system coz I wanna try work with what I got and get the best out of it)
My PC:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+
2.01 GHz
2GB Kingston DDR400 RAM (new)
Leadtek Nvidia GeFORCE 6800 (Winfast PX6800 TDH) 256MB (DDR)
Windows XP SP3
350W Power Supply
The Motherboard Specs:
ASUS A8N32-SLI DELUXE 3800+
AMD Socket 939 CPU
Supports DDR 400/333/266
Dual PCI-E x 16 Graphics
System Bus 2000/1600 MT/s
I was about to buy a Nvidia GeFORCE 9600GT 512MB card, 500W power supply and 2GB DDR400 RAM but the dweeb at the counter said this card
wont be compatible with my motherboard. He said it wont fit the PCI slot.
I Felt like a douch and just took the RAM.
Also I was wondering if my motherboard says it supports DDR 400 RAM, does that mean I have to get a graphics card that has DDR 400 RAM
or can I get a new card that has DDR2 or DDR3 RAM? Does that matter?
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. I know there are heaps of techie boys & girls who know their stuff so please help me!
I'm not much of a tech head so I looked around the net and forums and got some second hand info. Still dont know what to do though.
My system was pretty decent when I got it but now its a bit aged. I wanna breathe a little life into the old girl in the graphics area
before it becomes ancient. The existing Leadtek graphics card was great at the time but now I want to see if I can get more elsewhere.
The graphics are choppy and they stutter if I tweak the default settings slightly when playing NFS Undercover or Fifa 09 .
I'm looking to get one good graphics card as I have no intention of running 2 on SLI. So what can you guys suggest?
I'm looking at GIGABYTE cards (affordable for me)
(And dont bother telling me to scrap it and get a new system coz I wanna try work with what I got and get the best out of it)
My PC:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+
2.01 GHz
2GB Kingston DDR400 RAM (new)
Leadtek Nvidia GeFORCE 6800 (Winfast PX6800 TDH) 256MB (DDR)
Windows XP SP3
350W Power Supply
The Motherboard Specs:
ASUS A8N32-SLI DELUXE 3800+
AMD Socket 939 CPU
Supports DDR 400/333/266
Dual PCI-E x 16 Graphics
System Bus 2000/1600 MT/s
I was about to buy a Nvidia GeFORCE 9600GT 512MB card, 500W power supply and 2GB DDR400 RAM but the dweeb at the counter said this card
wont be compatible with my motherboard. He said it wont fit the PCI slot.
I Felt like a douch and just took the RAM.
Also I was wondering if my motherboard says it supports DDR 400 RAM, does that mean I have to get a graphics card that has DDR 400 RAM
or can I get a new card that has DDR2 or DDR3 RAM? Does that matter?
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. I know there are heaps of techie boys & girls who know their stuff so please help me!