Upgrading a Dell's Video Card

Sorry no pci-express slot in that machine. Only pci- which is pretty crappy. Since you're upgrading, think you a gamer? If so, you should just forget about the dell or look at higher model. Look at either emachine t6524 or HP a1250n(cheapest i saw at my local store was $600 for computer alone). BOTH come with amd athlon 64s. Especially HP which is dual-core. 1GB Ram, 200GB Hard drive (HP IS 250) DVD BURNER, DVD-ROM, etc...

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Look there are to types of graphics cards. New current cards that use a PCI express slot or an older cards that use an AGP slot. There are great cards out there that use AGP but AGP cards are no longer being made because of PCI express cards. With a PCI express card, you not only get cards with better gaming performance but can have 2 graphics cards working together which is called SLI. It all depends if you are a hardcore gamer looking for the best performance. Check if your Dell has an AGP slot. There are 2 types of AGP slots, the 4x and the 8x (of course 8x is better). What you can do is get your Dell, and replace your motherboard so that you can get PCI express slots. The problem with that is you need to get the right motherboard that supports your processor. I highly suggest you get a motherboard with a socket 939 (for AMD processors) because AMD makes better processors than INTEL. With a socket 939, you can get a crappy AMD processor now (there was one that cost $170.00)and later upgrade to say a dual core or an FX. But of course there are motherboards that have SLI and support Intel processors. You have to check the motherboard and the processors it can take. Different boards take different processors. You have to check the sockets. It all depends what you want. If you are a hard core gamer you can opt for a computer(or motherboard) that has 2 PCI express slots for SLI, or if you are an average gamer you can opt for a card that uses an AG slot. Memory matters as 1 gb is the sweet spot. Games aren't heavily dependent on the processor, so an average processor will do fine. REMEMBER IF YOU DO GET A MOTHERBOARD THAT HAS SLI CAPABILITIES, THEN YOU DO NOT NEED TO GET 2 GRAPHICS CARDS AT THAT TIME. YOU CAN GET ONE CARD NOW AND ANOTHER LATER. IF YOU DO GET SLI CARDS, THE CARDS MUST HAVE THE SAME MODEL NUMBER AND SAME COMPANY IT WAS MADE FROM, LIKE SAY TWO BFG'S 7800 GTX GRAPHICS CARDS WOULD WORK IN AN SLI FORM. THERE ARE BOARDS THAT JUST HAVE ONE PCI EXPRESS SLOT.