ok i got a tech question for ya all

[BOA_HILLBILLY]

im looking to by a vid card and im wondering if any of you can tell my what wood be best for a decent price?

i need a PCI card .....

iv herd sum good thang's about ATI and Nvidia, i no i need at lest 128mb to make me happy and im going to by sum more RAM ........

do any of you no were i can get a good deal on lin?

ODDBALL told me the's guys were good to dell with outpost.com/

and BRAVO sent me hear newegg.com/

and i don't remember were THUNDER got his stuff but there alll about the sam price .............

lol well i hope this is classified as a tech question..............

thank's BOA_HILLBILLY

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Harrrrrrrrr. Well HB, I dont shop online for parts as often as some, so My expertise remains loyal to the City shop hunter I am.

If you dont got's a AGP Slot then Yup, PCI is the only other route. Again.. Taking me outa my relm of knowledge, I have never bought a PCI graphics card before, And I know they dont run as fast as the AGP ones,but im sure they still screem along.

I run a ATI card, as do many. Alot swear by the NVdia cards, ( I used to run Nvidia.. I like ATI better)


Make sure before you buy a card that you know what your mother board can support. If its a PCI only board im guessin it dosent support High end cards. If I were you Id look for a ATI 9200 128MB card or somthing along that ara. Its a great lil workhorse of a card and at a great price ( I got mine for about 100 Canadian)

Good luck Bro. And about the RAM. If your buyin it and you dont know, make sure you know the limits on what your motherboard can handle. I run 768MB of Pc2100

Aye. Hope you gets some goood shiat mang!

Kami

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Well personally I would look at a Nvidia card. I believe Thunder went through newegg. A few things that you need to look at though when you go to buy a vid card is also the size of power supply that is in your CPU. I believe when you bought your puter it came with a 250 watt power supply. Which that would put you somewhere in the range of a Nvidia 5700 or 5700 ultra (stay away from a 5700SE) and for a ATI card would be the 9600 or 9700 pro

For the ram you need to look up the model number on your motherboard. the reason for this is if its anything like mine you are going to run into the fact you could have up to 1 gig of ram in any combination of sticks. but to go above 1 gig you have to run 2 1gig sticks. Hope that helps and if you need any other answers you know how to get a hold of me

[BOA_HILLBILLY]

thank's guy's ,

the only reason im thinking of bying it on line is that we dont have crap for PC stor's around hear and i dont wont to drive 1 or 2 houer's out of my way jest to git 1 thing......

i dont have an AGP slot jest a PCI..

i never evin thot about my power suply lol i gess it wood make a difrence if i got a big vid card but eny thang is better thin whut i got.....

hear is a nuther store for ya all to check out

www.monarchcomputer.com

this is wer thunder bilt his PC........

and this is the 1 im thinking about www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-140-027&depa=1

have any of you yous'd this 1 or no any thang about it? if ya got any thang to tell me let me no yood ya ...........................

thnak's BOA_HILLBILLY S~

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Well for that card you would be better off to go to Walmart and go with the XFX version of that card.

I think you may want to look a bit thurther for a bit more info on that card as it doesn't show any core speeds and as far as talking to someone with a card or used a 5200 ask your brother