i kno of a few but not too sure what to buy, especially dont wanna overkill or spend to much yah kno... alil help
Whats the Best graphics card for a DELL?
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list your specs
what socket do you have ?
PCI?
AGP?
PCI-e?
I hope you have pci-e. otherwise you are not really going to get a lot of power out of a card.
AGP is not that bad..
but pci ..spsh. you might as well be using onboard video lol.
If you want the best bang for your buck, I would suggest probably a 7600GT, or a 7800GT card. But those are really only PCI-e.
PCI?
AGP?
PCI-e?
I hope you have pci-e. otherwise you are not really going to get a lot of power out of a card.
AGP is not that bad..
but pci ..spsh. you might as well be using onboard video lol.
If you want the best bang for your buck, I would suggest probably a 7600GT, or a 7800GT card. But those are really only PCI-e.
I have worked on some computer that are about 1 year old, and didnt have PCI-e, or AGP.
I believe that most of them were HP ....
But you might as well bump up your ram to at least 2gigs if your mobo can handle that sort of thing.
I believe that most of them were HP ....
But you might as well bump up your ram to at least 2gigs if your mobo can handle that sort of thing.
i would get a Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE its a decent video card it came with my dell and it works fine. but u could get the 7600 GT and garden grove u can just customize the pc take parts out and put in pci-e slots thats what i did !!( i asked a friend to do it)
If you can operate a screwdriver AND know how to read you are more than qualified to start building computers.
Start here: http://www.pcmech.com/byopc/
installing hardware is about as complicated as plugging in old school NES cartridges. Installing a cpu takes about as much care as successfully splitting an oreo cookie. The only thing you have to be sure of is component compatibility. Take the plunge!
Start here: http://www.pcmech.com/byopc/
installing hardware is about as complicated as plugging in old school NES cartridges. Installing a cpu takes about as much care as successfully splitting an oreo cookie. The only thing you have to be sure of is component compatibility. Take the plunge!
Saosin, you know you'll need to buy a new copy of windows right? As soon as you get rid of that crappy dell mobo Windows won't work, and your copy that came with your dell won't install on a computer that doesn't have dell branded hardware. Just an FYI, happened to me once. I got lucky and have a friend with an MSDN subscription, and used one of his copies of XP till I bought vista.
I think gaming dell notebooks come with 7950XT or some crap like that. When MacBooks come with 8600GTs woot. lawl
I thought I would salvage a dell case too. That is until I took it apart and found out that Dell refuses to play nicely with non-Dell components. It didn't conform to ATX mountings or I/O panels which means you're stuck with their mobo which means you're stuck with their awful RAMBUS Memory, which means you're stuck with a Dell. Or you could get a new case.
Don't even get me started on macbooks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDnXsONSD2g
I just build a new system, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. It's much much cheaper than buying a new dell too. If I built my new computer on dell, I would have paid almost $1000 more and I wouldn't have been able to get the parts I wanted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDnXsONSD2g
I just build a new system, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. It's much much cheaper than buying a new dell too. If I built my new computer on dell, I would have paid almost $1000 more and I wouldn't have been able to get the parts I wanted.
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Saosin, you know you'll need to buy a new copy of windows right? As soon as you get rid of that crappy dell mobo Windows won't work, and your copy that came with your dell won't install on a computer that doesn't have dell branded hardware. Just an FYI, happened to me once. I got lucky and have a friend with an MSDN subscription, and used one of his copies of XP till I bought vista.
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yea i already have a new copy of windows, cuz i lost my backup disk, so im all set there hehe and im not gettin vista anytime soon
Saosin, you know you'll need to buy a new copy of windows right? As soon as you get rid of that crappy dell mobo Windows won't work, and your copy that came with your dell won't install on a computer that doesn't have dell branded hardware. Just an FYI, happened to me once. I got lucky and have a friend with an MSDN subscription, and used one of his copies of XP till I bought vista.
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yea i already have a new copy of windows, cuz i lost my backup disk, so im all set there hehe and im not gettin vista anytime soon
cant go wrong wit nvidia 7 or 8 series
You don't need to bump such old topics.
