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We need a little more information. If you could tell us what kind of Intel processor that is (Pentium 4, pentium III, etc) Do you know what kind of video card that is? Also, do you know what your motherboard is?
From first glance, it looks like you might not be able to do much of any upgrades that would be worth it. You might want to be looking at a new computer. But, that all depends on some more information.
from what i see it's a socket 478 P4 1.8 GHZ with a AGP slot probley from 2X-4X.
hmm.
heres the info we need 1.) Start>Run: type dxdiag hit the display tab along the top in dxdiag
and tell me the name, manufactuerer name, and chip type.
2.) Start>RIGHT Click on \"my computer\" (if \"my computer\" isnt on your start menu look on your desktop) Left click on the pop-up menu button on the bottem that says \"Properties\" the third paragraph down where it says \"Computer\" tell us what it says there.
i think josh is right, i need a new computer, well.. maybe a new motherboard and processor, its intel pentium 4 1.80ghz, i read the manual from the motherboard (cuz my uncle bought and build the PC for us) there is no manufacturer name... and it only supports up to 512 RAM (i think and it has only 2 slots) and the agp slot only supports up tp 4x while my video card is 8x, the chipset is Nvidia GEforce FX 5200 128mb, hope this is enough info
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It'd be a really good buy... as long as it has a graphics card slot. If it doesn't, keep looking. Integrated graphics is one of the worst things to happen to computing.
PCI slots aren't any better. If you want good graphics, you're going to need an AGP slot or a PCI-Express (not to be confused with standard PCI) slot.
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it still sucks even though the video card is 256 mb?
Memory is possibly the least important, but most over-hyped part of graphics cards. An ATI Radeon X600 with 512 MB of graphics memory wouldn't stand a chance against an ATI Radeon X800 XL with 256 MB of graphics memory.
Of course, the cards I mentioned above are independent graphics processors with dedicated graphics RAM. The Geforce 6150 that comes with that Gateway is an integrated graphics processing unit, which uses 256 MB of your system memory (which is much slower than dedicated graphics memory), and is thusly considerably slower than having a dedicated graphics solution.
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what video card should i buy then?
At first glance, I'd say anything Nvidia had soundly trounces anything on ATI's end... sort of. You get about equal performance for equal pricing right now (though, even that's untrue, Nvidia's a little cheaper) and Nvidia's cards run cooler and use less power. Something like a Geforce 7600 GT should do you well.
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and no, its gateway
The differences between Gateways and Emachines are in their cases -- they are otherwise identical. Gateway owns Emachines. :)
PCI slots aren't any better. If you want good graphics, you're going to need an AGP slot or a PCI-Express (not to be confused with standard PCI) slot.
oh I forgot bout that, it's not a standard PCI, it's a PCI-Express
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At first glance, I'd say anything Nvidia had soundly trounces anything on ATI's end... sort of. You get about equal performance for equal pricing right now (though, even that's untrue, Nvidia's a little cheaper) and Nvidia's cards run cooler and use less power. Something like a Geforce 7600 GT should do you well.
so is this video card compatible to most games?
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At first glance, I'd say anything Nvidia had soundly trounces anything on ATI's end... sort of. You get about equal performance for equal pricing right now (though, even that's untrue, Nvidia's a little cheaper) and Nvidia's cards run cooler and use less power. Something like a Geforce 7600 GT should do you well.
so is this video card compatible to most games?
I think it should be able to play most of the latest games. EDIT:Here's a review of it http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/326/11/ From looking at that, it looks like it should do just fine.
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