upgrade?

[kiddieboy12]

ok. i have a ECS NETTLE MOBO.

i was playing this game called quantom of solace. james bond. an dit was horrible laggy. do i ned a upgrade. i have a geforce 6150 nforce 430 128mb but it uses 512

 

[lukeroberts]

check out the system requirements for the game i think it has your card listed with the minimum dude so yea might need an upgrade

 

[kiddieboy12]

yea.but do u know what kinda ghraohic card?? im looking at ebay0__0

graphic card, Graphics, Video Cards, Used items on eBay.com

tell me which 1 will work

 

[lukeroberts]

well depending on how much you wanna spend and what brand preference you have you could go with like an 8800 from nvidia and you'll be flying or ati ive heard you can find 4850s for good prices on the internet and those things are great. i mean are you just looking to upgrade to be able to play this game up to pace or are you looking for something thats going to be able to consistently play newer games as they come out
that sort of goes in hand with the price question :P

 

[kiddieboy12]

i wanna spend less than 50$. i am looking in 3d programs.

 

[lukeroberts]

BFG GEFORCE 7800GS OC 256MB AGP GRAPHIC CARD - eBay (item 180326269886 end time Feb-09-09 14:16:44 PST)

New Palit 8800GT Sonic PCI-E 1GB DDR3 Graphics Card - eBay (item 390028450430 end time Feb-09-09 14:16:19 PST)


theres a couple geforces from the ebay link u sent me

 

[kiddieboy12]

ok i have a ecs nettle

it has one graphic card and one pc1 express x16 port

my pci is empty

my graphic card one is not. has a geforce 6150se nforce 430

then cannot run parrell
meaning they can not run 2 at a time

so. should i use a pci express x16. and what is it?? they seem cheaper

 

[lukeroberts]

yea the pci express is the way to go pal its the standard now adays. basically pci express x16 is the new standard for high end graphics cards. im assuming your psu can support the cards. price wise i wudnt say their cheaper just depends on which card your aiming at. of course some are more expensive than others (cough geforce)

 

[kiddieboy12]

what about

nVidia GeForce 8600GT 512MB PCI-Express Video card - eBay (item 220358938621 end time Feb-10-09 07:34:52 PST)

and

nVidia Geforce 8300GS 256MB PCI-E (Express) Video card!



will it be supported???

 

[lukeroberts]

yep both will be supported and both should play the game pretty well man. the 8600 you had their on ebay is a good card

 

[kiddieboy12]

any more u wanna recommend. and also can i but a ati card not nvdia

 

[kiddieboy12]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120373456945&mfe=sidebar

will this work?????????

 

[lukeroberts]

yea man u can use that 9500 but mind the dedicated memory. that 9500 will be taking 1gb of ram

and yep you can use an ATI card 3800 series are good cards anyway you look at it.

once you plug the new graphics card in make sure the onboard graphics are disabled. usually they get disabled automatically once the PCIe card comes in but if it doesnt disable it from BIOS.

ATI RADEON HD 3650 256MB PCI-E NEW OEM - eBay (item 250370228684 end time Feb-13-09 00:00:26 PST)

ATI VisionTek Radeon HD 3850 PCI-Express 2.0 x16 - eBay (item 130285769057 end time Feb-10-09 19:23:06 PST)


theres a couple ATI cards i looking up that should be good for u

 

[kiddieboy12]

wait. what the difrence. dedicated memory?? what is it. does it use 1gb of my onboard memory. ialways thought video memory the graphic card itself had it.? HELP

 

[lukeroberts]

nope, unfortunately the graphics card uses ram, the same ram that the rest of the computer uses. ull notice after u installe the card some of the memory will go missing. for isntance right now u have the 6150 which i believe has a maximum ram usage of 128 mbs. in alot of the cards ur going to be looking at it will probably be 256 to 1 gb. now of course you dont necessarily have to alot all of that ram to the card, but thats wat it wants to go to full performance.

 

[kiddieboy12]

but it have a 128mb vid card it goes all the way to 512mb

 

[calhounhusker]

Stay away from anything below the 8600GT and 9600GT. The 8600GT wont run the game exceptionally well but it will do better than the integrated.

 

[kiddieboy12]

it came with my system the 128mb that why it cost so expensive

 

[b12blib]

Yup, 8600 is fine, thoug with the future in use try to aim some higher perhaps so you are sweet for a while. I'm not checking out ebay for you though. Just go to NVidia or amd.com and check the latest models etc. The numbers at the moment are going upwards for NVidia, while ATI (AMD) went from 9800 to x300, x600, x1550 etc etc. x with higher number (Not always is the higher number the best, so read some reviews to make the right choice) though the 8600 should be fine indeed