Bought a new PC, one tiny problem [SOLVED]

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Aten

#21 August 11, 2009, 09:18:49 pm

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Quote from: goat on August 11, 2009, 08:12:50 pm

Built in intel video chipsets are shit. Put the nvidia card in and forget you had onboard, it's likely faster. More memory doesn't always mean faster video. There are 1gb CAD graphics cards out there that wont outperform older 128mb cards in video games.

Yeah but like I said, the nvidia one is AGP but the motherboard has a slot for PCI express. Which means I've no choice but to buy one to fix my TV out problems. Thanks for the help tho guys.

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Anyone recommend a good PCI express card? Seeing as I know shit about it, can someone point me to something good? I got the motherboard specs using asus pc probe tool:

whats good for me based on that?

Last Edit: August 11, 2009, 09:29:53 pm by Aten

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Mince Wobley

#22 August 12, 2009, 12:31:01 am

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Post what is avaliable in there

I'd get a geforce 7600 gs because it doesn't use a lot of power and since you've been living for that long with a geforce 2 it will be quite good in comparison, and those 8000 whatever geforces run way too hot and even if they can work at 100ºC that decreases their useful life

Play Raimond Ex (if you haven't already)

I'll not TAKE ANYTHING you write like this seriously because it looks dumb

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Mama Luigi

#23 August 14, 2009, 02:14:55 am

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So what kind of connector do you need? VGA, S-Video, or DVI? Or HDMI? Or Coaxial? Why are you hooking your computer up to your TV?

If you need a 7600 (GT, not GS... GT is faster) I have one sitting around that I could send you for around $30.

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Aten

#24 August 14, 2009, 02:19:54 am

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Hey guys, thought I'd let you know. I was at the computer shop today and there was like a "huge sale everything must go!!!" sign, went in, asked about a gfx card and by sheer luck, they had one. The one they had was Nvidia Geforce 7300, for $71. I bought it. According to wikipedia, this is the down low on it:

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GeForce 7300 LE

The 7300 LE (LE stands for light edition) is a scaled-down version of the 7300 GS. It has DDR2 memory, and a slightly lower core clock speed (450 MHz vs. 550 MHz) according to AnandTech[4] It is only available in the PCI Express interface. With good performance/price, the 7300 LE serves as a budget video card, though most consider it too inferior for the relatively small difference in price from the GS version.

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

So yeah, $71, don't know if that's expensive or what, but to me it was freaking cheap since the normal price for gfx cards are like $200 plus here. It had a S-Video out, but came with a S-Video <-> AV plug so alls sweet for me now

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Quote from: Mama Luigi on August 14, 2009, 02:14:55 am

So what kind of connector do you need? VGA, S-Video, or DVI? Or HDMI? Or Coaxial? Why are you hooking your computer up to your TV?

If you need a 7600 (GT, not GS... GT is faster) I have one sitting around that I could send you for around $30.

Dang, too bad man, if only you mentioned it sooner....

Last Edit: August 14, 2009, 02:22:54 am by Aten

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hobo2

#25 August 14, 2009, 03:29:18 am

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Is that 7600 GT PCI-e?

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Mama Luigi

#26 August 15, 2009, 07:34:48 am

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Wow the 7300 is an awful video card I actually have one of this sitting around I would literally ship to you for free... that's how terrible they are (... okay, you'd pay the shipping. but that's it... what like $6 maybe?)

But for your needs I suppose it will work. The fact that you paid $71 makes me die a little inside though... that's about what you'd expect to pay for a modern middle-of-the-road card... not an old low-end-card (the 7300 was bottom of the barrel for it's time). Where do you live that has video cards marked at such ridiculous rates? Is it impossible for you to buy online?

Quote from: hobo2 on August 14, 2009, 03:29:18 am

Is that 7600 GT PCI-e?

Why yes, it is

Last Edit: August 15, 2009, 07:40:22 am by Mama Luigi

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Aten

#27 August 15, 2009, 09:55:10 am

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Yeah, it may be expensive and/or awful, but it works just perfectly. I can even run NDS emulators now and I can watch stuff on my tv, which is why I got it anyway, so I'm happy with it. Live in Fiji btw.

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