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=ChrisB=
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Okay, so I want to upgrade my graphics card, cause the one I'm using now is'nt good enough for all my needs.

I'm currently using a ATI Radeon 9200 128MB 4X/8X. I want to upgrade to something a little more powerful. I was thinking of an eVGA 7500 or something like that, when I noticed that I didn't have a hi enough power suply. Okay, easy. Just buy a new one. But, do I have PCI Express slots? How can I figure that out?

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 11:03
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Unless you've got a very new computer, the chances of having PCI-E slots is pretty low. Therefore, you need an AGP card - ATI's X700 are pretty cheap.

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 14:03
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Why upgrade from the 3rd most recent ati card out just keep it

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dark coder
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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 14:54
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9200 isnt 3rd most recent card


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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 16:34
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what is 9250?

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Dot Merix
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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 17:27
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@Darkbasic MAD: Uhh, a lot. 9550,9600,9700,9800,x700,x800... And those are only the series, not even going into the editions of those cards.



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Darkbasic MADPSP
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I got ripped off i payed 40quid for my graphics card

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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 17:43 Edited at: 20th Aug 2005 20:33
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Shame.



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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 18:03
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unless you have found some weird way to hammer a agp card into a pci slot, you have agp, hence the 4x-8x, that doesn`t apply to pci, so your current card slot has to be agp (you don`t get mobos with one of each), PCI express is a special dedicated graphics slot like an agp slot, don`t confuse it with a bog normal PCI slot, they have nothing in common but the first three letters.

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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 18:21
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i have a pci radeon 9250 grafix card which is uber fast

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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 18:58
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i have a 64mb nvidia geForce 4mx graphics card that runs all of the new games(hal-2 for example) on the lowest settings, so it pretty much sucks a**-(butt). Then again i did buy my computer for $300.......(trails off)

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lol, My old PC even plays Doom 3! (on the lowest settings)

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=ChrisB=
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Well, thanks for your responses. I'm just going to get either a Gforce 6600 or a Radeon 9600XT or a Radeon 9800XT.

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Why not a 9800Pro? I mean you go from the 9600XT straight to the 9800XT. Anything wrong with the 9800Pro? Tis cheaper.

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=ChrisB=
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Mmmm, maybe. I'm thinking its gonna be the 9600XT.

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Fair enough. Just not as good (quite a bit less good) as the 9800Pro is all. And you were considering the 9800XT.

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=ChrisB=
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Posted: 21st Aug 2005 19:44
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Lol, yea... I might just get a new computer...

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