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May 10^th, 2003 at 4:59pm

iroc Offline
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I am looking to upgrade my computer real soon. Currently I have
windows xp
1.7ghz processor
intel 32mb graphics card
128 mb pc2100 ram

i know i need to get my system ram up alot, but what about my graphics card. It's built into the motherboard and my board does not have a agp. i noticed companies do make pci video cards. Are those any better than what i have or not? Will one conflict with my existing intel card that i can't pull out? Fs2002 runs good if i have the settings on low, but i want to get a little more out of the program.

any advice would be appreciated.

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Reply #1 - May 10^th, 2003 at 7:34pm

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A 1.7G processor is reasonable for now. No reason to throw it away. Add more RAM and maybe a little better graphics card (yours is by no means bargain basement yet but...) and you should be fairly well set. Spend the rest on a good joystick and/or rudder pedals and you'll be flying high.

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Reply #2 - May 10^th, 2003 at 10:39pm

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Outside of RAM that you can carry to your next machine, there isn't much you'd wanna do to that main-board,, DO NOT buy a new PCI v-card,, trust me here.

I'd sit tight (except for more RAM), and save all your money toward a new system..

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Reply #3 - May 11^th, 2003 at 11:00am

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Brett is right, PCI cards will not help you. A new motherboard with AGP is required. Some Nforce2 boards come with reasonable onboard graphics and are upgradeable with an AGP slot. But they are for AMD processors.

A 512 mb ram stick (256mb if you are tight) will help.
Maybe your onboard graphics can be tweaked in bios for a big performance increase by allocating more system ram to it and opening the graphics aperature up.

Unfortunatley, you are one of many who got a good "deal" when you bought a "all in one" motherboard.

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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