Now that I have a new power supply...

RageOverdose wrote:

LeClairity wrote:

Red_Calibur9 wrote:

RageOverdose wrote: It’s in “System” and should be on a tab in the window that opens called “Device Manager” I think.

Okay, I’m at Device Managers.

Control Panel >System > Hardware > Device Manager > Display Adaptors > double click the device and it will say something like PCI Slot 8 or AGP or something

So does Belarc, as well as tons of other helpful bits of info to understand his PC and what can be put in it, what can’t be, and what isn’t particularly useful.

that works too, you posted while I was typing

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Red_Calibur9 wrote:

LeClairity wrote: Control Panel >System > Hardware > Device Manager > Display Adaptors > double click the device and it will say something like PCI Slot 8 or AGP or something

I got this.

so you have a PCI Express card

Here’s a List of cards sorted low price to high but if you aren’t very computer savvy I’m not sure if you’d want to switch your card

[url] http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1558&name=PCI-Express-Video-Cards&Nav=|c:28|lp:25:hp:49.99|&Sort=4&Recs=10 [/url]

Damned BBCode.. copy and paste the url

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Are all of those better than the one I have now?

Red_Calibur9 wrote: Are all of those better than the one I have now?

that I don’t know

another reason to not try and replace, or upgrade, what you don’t know how to do

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I’m replacing a Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE pieceofshit

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Squipple wrote: I’m replacing a Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE pieceofshit

well I’ve been running a 7300 gt for the last year and a half and I’m still getting by great. Doesn’t mean I’m not planning on upgrading though. But I use NTune to clock my GPU bus so it plays way better than it normally would

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LeClairity wrote:

Red_Calibur9 wrote: Are all of those better than the one I have now?

that I don’t know

another reason to not try and replace, or upgrade, what you don’t know how to do

Hmm.

LeClairity wrote:

Squipple wrote: I’m replacing a Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE pieceofshit

well I’ve been running a 7300 gt for the last year and a half and I’m still getting by great. Doesn’t mean I’m not planning on upgrading though. But I use NTune to clock my GPU bus so it plays way better than it normally would

I’m using LE, not GT

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Squipple wrote:

LeClairity wrote:

Squipple wrote: I’m replacing a Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE pieceofshit

well I’ve been running a 7300 gt for the last year and a half and I’m still getting by great. Doesn’t mean I’m not planning on upgrading though. But I use NTune to clock my GPU bus so it plays way better than it normally would

I’m using LE, not GT

GeForce 7300 LE

Performance Specs:

* Graphics Bus: PCI Express
* Memory Interface: 64-bit
* Memory Bandwidth: 6.4 GB/s
* Fill Rate: 1.8 billion pixel/s
* Vertex/s: 338 million
* Memory Type: DDR-II

GeForce 7300 GT

Performance Specs:

* Graphics Bus: PCI Express
* Memory Interface: 128-bit
* Memory Bandwidth: 27.7 GB/s
* Fill Rate: 3.3 billion pixel/s
* Vertex/s: 550 million
* Memory Type: DDR-II

Wow yeah huge difference
Ok I suggest Tiger Direct

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Red_Calibur9 wrote:

LeClairity wrote: Control Panel >System > Hardware > Device Manager > Display Adaptors > double click the device and it will say something like PCI Slot 8 or AGP or something

I got this.

Had to do some research on this one.

Apparently you have what is known as the Xpress 200 chipset, which is a pretty old ATI chipset that supported multiple AMD and Intel processors, since this was before ATI was bought by AMD and now put integrated graphics solely with AMD chipsets. It’s pretty weak by today’s standards (it only supports v2.0 shaders, although DX9 and OpenGL 2.0 went up to v3.0 and we’re now at v4.0 with DX10 and OpenGL 2.0/3.0), but there isn’t enough information to determine the type of PCI Express slot you have. There’s probably an x8 or x16 (hopefully) somewhere on your motherboard. I’d still recommend using the Belarc Adviser program, so I can get a better overview of your PC.

To simplify what I just spewed outta my fingers, you have an older motherboard that really doesn’t optimally support the newest technologies. I would venture to say that you’d have a pretty big bottleneck if you went with many new video cards.

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Squipple wrote: I’m replacing a Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE pieceofshit

What are the specs of the new power supply you have?

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HI RAGE!

Um...Hi? O.o

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RageOverdose wrote: To simplify what I just spewed outta my fingers, you have an older motherboard that really doesn’t optimally support the newest technologies. I would venture to say that you’d have a pretty big bottleneck if you went with many new video cards.

Bottleneck?

Red_Calibur9 wrote:

RageOverdose wrote: To simplify what I just spewed outta my fingers, you have an older motherboard that really doesn’t optimally support the newest technologies. I would venture to say that you’d have a pretty big bottleneck if you went with many new video cards.

Bottleneck?

A bottleneck, and not just in computers, is something that hinders optimal performance. Generally, computer bottlenecks are caused because bandwidth is too low or memory is too low, so all the processed data can’t get where it needs to be fast enough.

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file:///C:/Program%20Files/Belarc/Advisor/System/tmp/(Your-2f7f13cf80).html

Here’s my Belarc thing.

RageOverdose wrote:

Squipple wrote: I’m replacing a Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE pieceofshit

What are the specs of the new power supply you have?

500 watts

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Red_Calibur9 wrote: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Belarc/Advisor/System/tmp/(Your-2f7f13cf80).html

Here’s my Belarc thing.

I can’t see it...

It’s an html page that’s not put on the web. You’d have to screenshot it.

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Squipple wrote:

RageOverdose wrote:

Squipple wrote: I’m replacing a Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE pieceofshit

What are the specs of the new power supply you have?

500 watts

That sounds a tad low, but there are cards I think you could use. Do you know what processor you have, by the way? And is your card a PCIe x16 card or not?

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RageOverdose wrote:

Squipple wrote:

RageOverdose wrote:

Squipple wrote: I’m replacing a Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE pieceofshit

What are the specs of the new power supply you have?

500 watts

That sounds a tad low, but there are cards I think you could use. Do you know what processor you have, by the way? And is your card a PCIe x16 card or not?

I have core 2 Duo E6400

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