Need A Good Graphics Card...

[atiVidia]

Originally posted by [-Crono-
,11 February 2004 - 17:11]I'm not looking to play any thing too extreme, I doubt if I even play any thing on this computer, I'll just get my own, I was mainly just wanting 32 bit color. BTW, what's a AGP slot, and how can I tell if I have one...? 

lol n00b alert!

j/k crono


anyhoo: when u open up ur comp, u should see several slots on the motherboard (the big thing with the chips and fans and ports and stuff)

they are usually laid out as such:

AGP.......[________________]

PCI...[________________]

PCI...[________________]

PCI...[________________]

... and on and on...

the AGP is pushed further in, and is usually a different color than the others. there is always only one AGP, whereas there can be up to 5 (maybe even more) PCI

[Virtualbody1234]

The brown slot in these pictures are an AGP slot:

[Dray_04]

i fully recommend the R9600XT

i have one, and look at my shitty specs lol.

it works awesome. i have NFSU running on everything cranked up to the max, the goes with LOTR (1600 x 1200), Halo (1280 x 1024), POP (max) etc.......

the list goes on, this card is great

oh and kai sed

or maybe take a look at one of the MANY other gfx card threads here!

lol, yer ther are only about 4 billion threads on "What graphic card should i get"

oh well

[iMartin]

Originally posted by atiVidia@11 February 2004 - 17:57
lol n00b alert!

j/k crono

lol.... I'm not much of a hardware type person, but thanks for all the help. Since I'm getting ADSL (with a 384K downstream and 128K upstream) in a week, I can't really afford to go out and buy a new 180$ graphics card, but I'll look into it.