Simviation Forum - ok i need some advice

Oct 1^st, 2008 at 10:13pm

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i need to buy a new graphic card for my hp pavilion a1610n can anyone help me??? Huh

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Reply #1 - Oct 2^nd, 2008 at 7:51am

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Well, good news and bad news.

From the looks of the specs of your machine, you do have a PCI-E slot, and from what I'm told, an Nvidia 8800 series card would be the way to go. Now I have an HD3870, which performs pretty well, but ATI is a bit lacking these days imho. In fact, I wouldn't even be using it if it hadn't been given to me in trade.

The bad news is that the power supply you have (if you haven't changed it yet that is) is a wimp, so if you upgrade your card to something on the higher end, you should think about changing that too.

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Reply #2 - Oct 2^nd, 2008 at 11:03am

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lunitic_8 wrote on Oct 1^st, 2008 at 10:13pm:

i need to buy a new graphic card for my hp pavilion a1610n can anyone help me??? Huh

Get a good Power Suply and an 8800GT or GTX (even better!!!)
I have a similar PC but with a bit better specs and I had to up my PSU and card and it costs around $250 or less if you play your cards right Wink

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Reply #3 - Oct 2^nd, 2008 at 9:29pm

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Groundbound1 wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2008 at 7:51am:

Well, good news and bad news.

From the looks of the specs of your machine, you do have a PCI-E slot, and from what I'm told, an Nvidia 8800 series card would be the way to go. Now I have an HD3870, which performs pretty well, but ATI is a bit lacking these days imho. In fact, I wouldn't even be using it if it hadn't been given to me in trade.

The bad news is that the power supply you have (if you haven't changed it yet that is) is a wimp, so if you upgrade your card to something on the higher end, you should think about changing that too.

it says that i have a 200-240v AC input and i have a 250GB harddrive and i have a PCIEX16 port and i currently have a Nvidia Geforce 6150LE .0

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