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28 Dec 2010, 1:02 pm

So, it seem that this locust noise may come from my graphic card. That, and the flashing black triangles in some 3D games... My dad must come in a few day, with the possibility of him buying me a new computer, or a graphic card...

So my computer is not new...

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8 GHZ and 1Go RAM

My old graphic card is a NeVidia GeForce 6200 256 Mb VRAM ( With a dumbed down GeForce 6600 GPu)

So what would you recommand me as graphic card? (Preferably better that what I've already got :wink: ) And do the graphic cards in stores work on my computer? If no, where would I be able to found that?


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28 Dec 2010, 1:18 pm

To know which graphics cards will run in your computer you need to know the kind of port it has. If I recall correctly, the GeForce 6200 came in two versions, one for PCI and one for AGP, both of which are a bit out of date.

Most modern graphics cards use PCIe, a newer version of PCI that is probably not available on your motherboard.



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28 Dec 2010, 5:39 pm

Well, on the sticker of my grapgic card it's write down PCI-E, except the prot don't have the scales and stuffs around of the Wikipedia picture.

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Then agian it is thinner that some other ports below, so I guess it may be a PCIe.


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29 Dec 2010, 3:15 am

Go into your start menu and type "dxdiag" in the search bar. DirectX Diagnosis Tool should initialise, and it should tell you information about your PC, including the name of your motherboard model. Then, search for that motherboard on google and you should be able to find out whether it has PCI-e slots or not, as well as other information pertinent to graphics cards, such as whether it supports AMD Crossfire or Nvidia SLI.


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29 Dec 2010, 3:57 am

Some AMD mobos when the Athlon 64 came out may have PCI-E. To know which is which, open up your computer. A AGP slot is keyed on the right of the connector, a PCI-E x16 slot is keyed on the left and it's longer than an AGP slot.



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29 Dec 2010, 2:39 pm

nthach wrote:
Some AMD mobos when the Athlon 64 came out may have PCI-E. To know which is which, open up your computer. A AGP slot is keyed on the right of the connector, a PCI-E x16 slot is keyed on the left and it's longer than an AGP slot.

Also AGP cards have two rows of contacts on each side of the connector on the card while PCI-E cards have one one row of contacts on each side of the connector on the card.


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29 Dec 2010, 11:44 pm

KaiG wrote:
Go into your start menu and type "dxdiag" in the search bar. DirectX Diagnosis Tool should initialise, and it should tell you information about your PC, including the name of your motherboard model. Then, search for that motherboard on google and you should be able to find out whether it has PCI-e slots or not, as well as other information pertinent to graphics cards, such as whether it supports AMD Crossfire or Nvidia SLI.

Don't know why, but my computer don't dislose those informations. It say "System manufacturer" as the builder and "System Product Name" as the model. But my graphic card sticker sying it's a PCI-e post, I guess there is good chance that it's indeed a PCI-e port on my mother board.

My dad must come tommorow (the 30), so if youy got suggestions better say them quick.


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29 Dec 2010, 11:50 pm

This beast more than likely would not work but with your mobo but...

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=3669
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30 Dec 2010, 6:26 am

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30 Dec 2010, 6:31 pm

So turn out my dad decided to buy me a new computer, the old one turn out to have too much problems. Thanks anyway.


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