I'm not really computer hardware. Let's just say I know how to put the parts in and install them. However, I don't know much about compatibility issues. I want to upgrade to a newer nvidia graphics card in a 4yr old computer. It already has an older geforce card in it. I'm wondering if the newer geforce cards will be compatible with this older motherboard port. I don't know how to tell if the card I'm going to buy from newegg will be compatible with the motherboard port?|||Hey there Emery,
Good thing you're doing for your computer by upgrading the video hardware. Not only will you see a better performance in games, but a video card will also take off some strain from your CPU while watching movies and such.
Since you prefer an nVidia card, and you have an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) on your motherboard, it will be much easier to pinpoint a good deal for ya.
Check out all the nVidia GPUs in this wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_…
In the above list of comparisons, you can find any card that supports the AGP slot, and pick the one that's right for you.
Here is the latest nVidia card compatible with your AGP slot:
http://www.google.com/products?q=XFX+GeF…
And here is the best bargain for the same card:
http://www.netfreez.com/products/XFX_nVi…
It's quite expensive, and it would require a new power supply. Personally, that's the card I would go with. If you want to go for something cheaper, just use the Wiki entry above as a reference.
Good Luck!|||Umm, you're not providing enough info - Nvidia makes a lot of different chipsets - and many people have made cards built on them. Also, many different kinds of computers were made 4 years ago - just like now.
You need to specify what kind of port you have (specifying the computer model would also help). There are three basic types of port for the graphics card. In order of their age, they are, PCI, AGP & the new PCI-e (which otherwise has no resemblance or compatibility w/PCI). If you got a mainstream brand of PC, you can go to the manufacturer's site and search by the model no. - you should be able to find some page devoted to what kind of ports your machine has.
If you've got PCI ports, consider sticking with what you've got, since performance, by nature of the primitve port, will be restricted. If you go for a PCI card, and it will cost, you'll probably due do best with a card using 128MB of RAM.
Just to give you an indication how useless age alone is, consider that my current machine, a Dell Dimension 3000, has no AGP graphics port on its motherboard, meaning I was stuck with either the on-board "integrated graphics" or a PCI card with little better performance. This despite the fact that the PC my DD replaced did have an AGP port, and was purchased about 4 years later. It's like getting a new car and finding that it still has a tape deck. (It was a budget computer and actually a great performer.)|||the chances that your pc actually stil uses pci for video cards are remote to slim especially ina 2004 computer by that time AGP was riding high and all new computer came equipped with AGP nvidia already phased out pci support in the early 2000's
you can buy a new video card as long as you are sure you have a AGP slot ( open your pc and check the slot your current video card is installed in if its brown its AGP if its white its pci )
nvidia stil makes AGP video cards
including the geforce 5200 fx ( 128 mb ) and geforce 6200 fx ( 256 mb) |||run this
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
look at mainboard-> graphics
if its pci-e then u need a pci-e card
if its agp then u need an agp card
if its pci then you need to consider whether its time to get a new computer as the slot technology is really really crappy for gaming
For advice on cards see here
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best…
the only other aspect you need to be aware of is that you have a power supply that is adequate to run the card. Cheap cards will run from the slot on a 300. More powerful cards need a spare rail and a 450 or higher.
No comments:
Post a Comment