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i AM NEEDING A NEWER VIDEO CARD FOR MY GAMES AND I CURRENTLY HAVE A Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family AND I WAS LOOKING AT A XFX GEFORCE GF 6200 W/ TURBOCACHE? SUPPORTING 256MB PCI-E PCI EXPRESS VIDEO CARD WITH DVI AND TV OUT WHAT DO YOU THINK HELP ME
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I would go for an evga 6600 GT that is available at newegg for $177 or an evga 6800GT for $379.
Roger
Capital letters is considered yelling. And are you sure your motherboard has a PCI-Express(x16), if you have the 910, you don't have it, and some variants of the others don't have a PCI-Express(x16), but PCI-Express (x1).
Roger
the 6200 TC is a terrible video card
it has no onboard RAM, so it has to use the system RAM
just like your current solution does
but instead of using 32-64MB, i'll use 32-256MB of RAM
and it'll bottleneck up the system in fast paced games due to it's RAM requirements
You took the technical specs right out of my mouth. LOL. As roger stated, I highly doubt you have a PCI-E capable mobo, but post it and we shall see if you don't think you can figure it out on your own. The alternative of course, is to buy a PCI-E capable mobo, but that's going to get really costly, probably involving a new processor and ram as well.
Gee Abbott, like others have indicated, you need to find out if you even have a PCI-Express x-16 slot or even an AGP slot.
The 915G chipset has the Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (GMA 900), and also an interface for a PCI Express X16 video card.
The 915GV chipset has the Integrated GMA 900 graphics, but no external graphics port for a video card.
The 910GL chipset has the Integrated GMA 900 graphics, but no external graphics port for a video card.
You may need to use a regular PCI card to upgrade your graphics instead of a PCI-Express or AGP card.
Perhaps if you let us know what brand name and model number of your PC and more on what motherboard you have it may help.
Regards,
JR
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