Which graphics card??! - Page 6

***Aristotle13*** · July 11th, 2006

Yikes, and then to go and call the 9550... powerful???????? whoa. uber, leet and owns you all in one post. ROFLMAO You might wanna stay out of the "tech" section for a while kid.

***Bs|Archaon*** · July 11th, 2006

Come to think of it, that PCI X1300 that was posted about a while back might be faster than the AGP 9550 that he reccommends? I'm thinking the budget card of today should give a low-mid range card from 2 or 3 years ago a good beating. And if the X1300 sucks balls, then what does a 9550 do? Just a thought...

~~Videoslave~~ · July 11th, 2006

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Originally Posted by mou53y

Just get an AGP Radeon 9550,
Very cheap, very reliable and also nice and powerful

I dare you to play Oblvion At 800*600.....

***utrythinkinof1*** · July 11th, 2006

It's done! I ordered the graphics card and RAM on newegg.com just a few minutes ago! Thanks EVERYONE for EVERYTHING!! I might just have one more, one more ( I hope) question about how to install the drivers onto the computer from the burned cd (whether you just click a button or whatever), but besides that, finito!

***Rookie*** · July 11th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Bs|Archaon

Come to think of it, that PCI X1300 that was posted about a while back might be faster than the AGP 9550 that he reccommends? I'm thinking the budget card of today should give a low-mid range card from 2 or 3 years ago a good beating. And if the X1300 sucks balls, then what does a 9550 do? Just a thought...

Well, the X1300Pro comes just short of an X700Pro on the benchmark front so...yeah.

I doubt the PCI edition would be much slower. Perhaps roughly equivalent to an X300.

***utrythinkinof1*** · July 13th, 2006

I got them today! I am installing them tonight! Everything seems right.

I did get a "bonus CD" called ATI's Bonus DVD Vol. 2...it has game demos which I don't want but it also has some stuff that seems important like:

PowerDirector 3 SE Plus CD Key: PW496H4654147374
Power2Go 4 CD Key: PP39468293314586
PowerBackup Trail

Are those nessesary or just junk? All I want is the graphics card, the RAM, and the games to all run smoothly, no crap.

Thanks.

***utrythinkinof1*** · July 13th, 2006

Is this my old graphics card(bigger one) and sound card?

http://flickr.com/photos/53838066@N00/188933788/

Are these my RAM?? One is standing right side up, and one is on its side?!!

http://flickr.com/photos/53838066@N00/188936946/

***Bs|Archaon*** · July 13th, 2006

The big one with the big, fat, ugly black heatsink on it is your graphics card. I'm not sure what your other one is, doesn't seem to have enough sockets for a sound card, but it doesn't really matter.

In the second pic, it does look like RAM but I've never seen anything like that...

***utrythinkinof1*** · July 13th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Bs|Archaon

The big one with the big, fat, ugly black heatsink on it is your graphics card. I'm not sure what your other one is, doesn't seem to have enough sockets for a sound card, but it doesn't really matter.

In the second pic, it does look like RAM but I've never seen anything like that...

Okay. I thought something was fishy about the RAM...
There is only one notch looking thing on the right side of the slot with the current graphics card in it, and it appears that it moves side to side, not up and down. How do I get this big thing out?

And there is a chord that connects the graphics card (the chord is a blueish color near the end), do I keep this is connect it to the new one?

***utrythinkinof1*** · July 13th, 2006

We have one RAM stick in!

UPDATE: We have both RAm sticks in!

Dinner, and then we tackle the graphics card.