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| Thread ID: 56148 | 2005-03-28 10:43:00 | wat video card | aidanmaz (7180) | Press F1 |
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| 338846 | 2005-03-28 10:43:00 | i have an aging PIII 750mHz computer. it at the moment has an ATI 3d Rage IIC card (4mb) and i just upgraded 2 Win XP home. XP doesnt like the low memoery issue and i wanna upgrade. Yet i dont hav and lotta money. So wat is the best video card 4 an AGP 1x port? | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 338847 | 2005-03-28 10:52:00 | Welcome to PressF1 :) how much SYSTEM ram do you have? if you really want to upgrade the graphics card you could go for a TNT2 or something similar, it really depends on what you want to do with your computer, do you want to play older games? |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 338848 | 2005-03-28 11:02:00 | The ram issue and the graphics card are two different problems. I'd get the fastest, best card that will possibly go in your MB - whatever that is, are you sure its only AGP 1x? Not 2x? And you upgraded to XP? I would have left Win98 on it, would run much better. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 338849 | 2005-03-28 11:34:00 | i pretty sure its AGP 1 its a brown coloured port i like XP yeah call me crazy but i like it. i just tryin to figure wat i can get to run XP smoothly. its all jumpy and windows left traces behind |
aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 338850 | 2005-03-28 11:49:00 | All AGP slots are brown normally, whether 1x or 8x. If you want to find out more about your system hardware specifications, download and run this free system information program - Everest (www.lavalys.com). How much system RAM do you have with that machine? You can find out how much RAM you have by looking at the general tab found via Control Panel > System. This will be a big performance bottleneck. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 338851 | 2005-03-28 11:57:00 | 8xagp are orange. | Metla (12) | ||
| 338852 | 2005-03-28 12:00:00 | 8xagp are orange.Hmm ... thought I might of got that wrong. This is why I went back and added "normally" to that statement before posting it. Rear end covering. :p | Jen (38) | ||
| 338853 | 2005-03-28 15:11:00 | i hav 319mb of system ram everest said this bout AGP: VIA VT8604/5/6 ProSavage PL133/PM133/PN133 Chipset - AGP Controller hope that helps |
aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 338854 | 2005-03-28 22:00:00 | was it a dirty install of xp? ie did you just install it over top of win 98? and have you ran a up to date virus, adware and spyware scan? have you defraged your hdd? | Prescott (11) | ||
| 338855 | 2005-03-28 22:14:00 | 8xagp are orange. Mine's not :) aidanmaz (member.php?u=11163), you say it doesn't like the low memory, presumably of the graphics card - do you say this because of the sluggish movement of windows? If so, this can be caused by drivers, where Windows doesn't know how to use the card so it will use the CPU to draw things, making it slow. |
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