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« Reply #30 on: 24 September, 2007, 18:33:00 »
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Ahh nooo not the pentium D one!
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« Reply #31 on: 24 September, 2007, 18:38:00 »
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please dont use integrated graphic cards. most games doesn't supports intel cards, they mostly support NVDIA ones and some games support ATI cards as well. So you will end up with many games not working properly fast
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« Reply #32 on: 24 September, 2007, 21:08:00 »
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please dont use integrated graphic cards. most games doesn't supports intel cards, they mostly support NVDIA ones and some games support ATI cards as well. So you will end up with many games not working properly fast

I completely agree, though Star Wars Battlefront ran pretty decent on my old laptop's Intel 945 GMA (which is the older version of the 950). Of course, it was forced to run well, as all the eyecandies were turned off and the resolution set to 800x600... Big smilesmiley.gif

Now if only I could find that one post in a random forum that rated all graphics cards/chipsets according to performance (or as spengo calls it, 1337ness)...
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« Reply #33 on: 25 September, 2007, 09:23:00 »
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this pc is a big upgrade from my current http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00190905&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=93149&lang=en
oinly mine has 192 mbs of ram Tonguetongue.gif

dj omnimaga i will upgrade the graphic card. i'll go nivida
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« Reply #34 on: 25 September, 2007, 19:08:00 »
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this pc is a big upgrade from my current http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00190905&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=93149&lang=en
oinly mine has 192 mbs of ram Tonguetongue.gif

dj omnimaga i will upgrade the graphic card. i'll go nivida  

 I can see you really do need an upgrade. 400 Mhz processor and a 10 GB hard drive... o.oblink.gif

As for upgrading, I don't know how easy it is going to be to upgrade integrated graphics to descrete...
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« Reply #35 on: 25 September, 2007, 19:56:00 »
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pci 16x port on the new pc i'm buying  
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« Reply #36 on: 26 September, 2007, 10:14:00 »
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this pc is a big upgrade from my current http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00190905&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=93149&lang=en
oinly mine has 192 mbs of ram Tonguetongue.gif

dj omnimaga i will upgrade the graphic card. i'll go nivida

I can see you really do need an upgrade. 400 Mhz processor and a 10 GB hard drive... o.oblink.gif

As for upgrading, I don't know how easy it is going to be to upgrade integrated graphics to descrete...  

 Most BIOS's switch automatically to PCI(e)/AGP graphics cards if they are present. For my PC it was a matter of disabling the integrated card, power down, put in PCI graphics card, power on, install drivers, reboot, Huh?, profit.
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« Reply #37 on: 26 September, 2007, 10:31:00 »
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uh I was saying the computer i'm buying is a big upgrade from the one I own now. also Im looking at this card to add to it.http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2353877&cp=2032061.2063031.2063124&allCount=35&fbn=Type%2FPCI+Express+cards&f=PAD%2FProduct+Type%2FPCI+Express+cards&fbc=1&parentPage=family
or this one http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/XFX-GeForce-8600GT-256MB-PCI-Express-Video-Card-PV-T84J-UDF3/sem/rpsm/oid/184793/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

ad that to the 19'' moniter and surround sound and then add another 1gb of ram and we have  :wub:wub.gifw00twoot.gif
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« Reply #38 on: 26 September, 2007, 16:15:00 »
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8600GT is definitely worth it over the 7300. It is my policy never to buy a graphics card that ends in something less than 600. *600* are usually the base gaming models, and things that end in 800 or more are the top end ones. Stuff below 600 is usually for the average consumer or very light gamer. Anyways, take a look the gpureview.com site I posted before. It has a lot of good infos and detailed gpu specs.
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« Reply #39 on: 26 September, 2007, 18:43:00 »
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i did but my parents don't want me having a gaming card Sadsad.gif
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« Reply #40 on: 26 September, 2007, 20:55:00 »
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i did but my parents don't want me having a gaming card Sadsad.gif

The 8600 GT is NOT a gaming card. In fact, it is recommended as a "video editing and HD video playback" card. Now http://www.gpureview.com/GeForce-880-Ultra-card-515.html is a gaming card. Do you see the difference?
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« Reply #41 on: 26 September, 2007, 21:09:00 »
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The difference is you can actually game on an 8600, whereas you might feel the 7300 rather lacking.
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« Reply #42 on: 27 September, 2007, 12:24:00 »
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but any card is better than a 4mb ATI 3D Ragen LT Pro Graphics, 64-bit Hardware Accelerated 3D Graphics

also My mom thinks any card that is made by nvidia is a gaming card. my freind bought a 256 card of ebay and he is like a major game addict. but all he plays is battle field 2 offline Smileysmile.gif
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« Reply #43 on: 27 September, 2007, 17:15:00 »
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aren't most of the non-gaming cards made by ATI and Nvidia (FireGL and Quadro?) all workstation cards for stuff like CAD?  and aren't they usually more expensive?
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« Reply #44 on: 27 September, 2007, 18:03:00 »
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eww battlefield 2 offline? Bf2 bots are retarded. Undecidedconfused.gif And yeah, ATI and nVidia make almost all of the decent graphics cards out there, gaming, consumer, or design.
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