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Can someone please explain graphics/video cards to me, & make a suggestion??
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 730208" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Ok... so you basically have an nVidia 6-series GPU with the core clock speed on that sucker is 425 MHz. Further hobbled by it being an "integrated" chipset. It looks like most any of the cheap cards recommended earlier will work out for ya. I'd stick to an nVidia card. Any of the 8-series should be a pretty nice step up for you. Sorry for all the arguing earlier... but better safe than sorry. There was always the off-chance that your problem had little or nothing to do with the graphics card. Anywho....</p><p></p><p>As for your question over why it says the bus-type is PCI when it's integrated... the card still uses that type of bus. It shares the system's RAM and doesn't have an actual slot to pull it out from, but the data transfers all occur in that section of the hardware.</p><p></p><p>As for the system recognizing the new vs old GPU... you may have to set this in the BIOS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 730208, member: 38864"] Ok... so you basically have an nVidia 6-series GPU with the core clock speed on that sucker is 425 MHz. Further hobbled by it being an "integrated" chipset. It looks like most any of the cheap cards recommended earlier will work out for ya. I'd stick to an nVidia card. Any of the 8-series should be a pretty nice step up for you. Sorry for all the arguing earlier... but better safe than sorry. There was always the off-chance that your problem had little or nothing to do with the graphics card. Anywho.... As for your question over why it says the bus-type is PCI when it's integrated... the card still uses that type of bus. It shares the system's RAM and doesn't have an actual slot to pull it out from, but the data transfers all occur in that section of the hardware. As for the system recognizing the new vs old GPU... you may have to set this in the BIOS. [/QUOTE]
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