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Tue May 09, 2006 6:53 pm Reply and quote this post
i have 1.8 ghz intel, 128 mb agp video, 512 DDR mem, and i want to upgrade it made for games like Doom 3, half-life 2, what do I need to upgrade?
Contributed by mr.popo, iVirtua Active Member
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Tue May 09, 2006 7:59 pm Reply and quote this post
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.

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Tue May 09, 2006 10:07 pm Reply and quote this post
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.

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Wed May 10, 2006 5:50 pm Reply and quote this post
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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Thu May 11, 2006 12:20 am Reply and quote this post
yeah there is no reason in trashing the harddrive and stuff. Just replace mobo + cpu and you already have some DDR Memory.

just two questions is there 2 or 1 sticks of ram in your computer and how much are you thinking of spending for a

CPU+MOBO+RAM+PSU+VIDEO CARD

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Thu May 11, 2006 8:43 pm Reply and quote this post
2 sticks of 256, i saw this PC at best buy yesterday and can u tell me if this is alright,

AMD Athlon 64 3700+
1024 DDR Memory
200 GB hard drive
nVidia Geforce 6100 GPU (integrated)

it's like 800 i think so is this good enough?

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Fri May 12, 2006 2:45 pm Reply and quote this post
its great other than the video card.  It will play those games, but they'll look really ugly.  eMachines I'd guess.
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Fri May 12, 2006 4:08 pm Reply and quote this post
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.
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Fri May 12, 2006 11:21 pm Reply and quote this post
yeah, it has a PCI slot, it still sucks even though the video card is 256 mb?what video card should i buy then? and no, its gateway

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Sat May 13, 2006 3:49 am Reply and quote this post
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yeah, it has a PCI slot


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. :)

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Sat May 13, 2006 12:17 pm Reply and quote this post
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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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Sat May 13, 2006 12:30 pm Reply and quote this post
It won't play any of the latest games well at all.
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Sat May 13, 2006 12:41 pm Reply and quote this post
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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.


Last edited by Josh on Sat May 13, 2006 12:45 pm; edited 1 time in total

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Sat May 13, 2006 2:06 pm Reply and quote this post
i check some sites for the price and i noticed that there's a like 3 different manufacturers making this, what do you should i go to?
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Sat May 13, 2006 6:32 pm Reply and quote this post
eVGA, BFG and XFX are good Nvidia card manufacturers. They'd be good ones.
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