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[OT] Computer question for you knowledgeable folks
A friend of Richard's gave him a free computer (it was a giveaway from
the guy's job) that works pretty well. It's a Dell, made for business intentions. Unfortunately, Richard is a gamer, and has a couple of games including Sim City 4, that he wants to play on it, but it seems to need a 3-D graphics card to make that work very well. So, a co-worker sold him a card for $40. It's a 6600LE GeForce NVIDIA 512 mb card. However, there seems to not be the right slot in the Dell for this thing (it even has its own fan!). I think there is a particular slot it needs go to into; the guy who sold it had it in an orange slot, and all the slots on the Dell are white. I have no clue what *any* of this means -- lol. But does anyone here much more informed than I have any idea what he can do? Thanks! Ginger-lyn -- Home Pages: http://www.spiritrealm.com/summer/ http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....mmer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
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[OT] Computer question for you knowledgeable folks
Ginger-lyn wrote in news:13i75cvb7rbj181
@corp.supernews.com: A friend of Richard's gave him a free computer (it was a giveaway from the guy's job) that works pretty well. It's a Dell, made for business intentions. Unfortunately, Richard is a gamer, and has a couple of games including Sim City 4, that he wants to play on it, but it seems to need a 3-D graphics card to make that work very well. So, a co-worker sold him a card for $40. It's a 6600LE GeForce NVIDIA 512 mb card. However, there seems to not be the right slot in the Dell for this thing (it even has its own fan!). I think there is a particular slot it needs go to into; the guy who sold it had it in an orange slot, and all the slots on the Dell are white. I have no clue what *any* of this means -- lol. But does anyone here much more informed than I have any idea what he can do? Thanks! Ginger-lyn All he can do is get a card that fits the slots you have and has the perfromance needed. You can't use the card you have. Without seeing it I would guess the computer you have has PCI slots. The other card sounds like it fits an AGP slot. Either way you need to figure out what the computer has (you can post a pic for some here to tell you) and what a video card will cost and will the combination work well enough to be worth the cost to you. Andy |
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[OT] Computer question for you knowledgeable folks
"Outsider" wrote in message
. .. Ginger-lyn wrote in news:13i75cvb7rbj181 @corp.supernews.com: A friend of Richard's gave him a free computer (it was a giveaway from the guy's job) that works pretty well. It's a Dell, made for business intentions. Unfortunately, Richard is a gamer, and has a couple of games including Sim City 4, that he wants to play on it, but it seems to need a 3-D graphics card to make that work very well. So, a co-worker sold him a card for $40. It's a 6600LE GeForce NVIDIA 512 mb card. However, there seems to not be the right slot in the Dell for this thing (it even has its own fan!). I think there is a particular slot it needs go to into; the guy who sold it had it in an orange slot, and all the slots on the Dell are white. I have no clue what *any* of this means -- lol. But does anyone here much more informed than I have any idea what he can do? Thanks! Ginger-lyn All he can do is get a card that fits the slots you have and has the perfromance needed. You can't use the card you have. Without seeing it I would guess the computer you have has PCI slots. The other card sounds like it fits an AGP slot. Either way you need to figure out what the computer has (you can post a pic for some here to tell you) and what a video card will cost and will the combination work well enough to be worth the cost to you. What he said and... I don't know if you have them, but there might be a computer club or swap meet or computer fair near year where someone will be willing to swap the card you have for a suitable PCI card - or trade it in so that the PCI card will cost you far less than a new card. I'm not right into games, but there's the *minimum requirement* for the graphics card for the game to be playable and then there's the 'desired' level of function. For example, I have an old beast of a computer here that is on its last legs. Its 5 years old, and was purchased as an 'office' machine rather than a gaming machine. It hasn't had an upgrade in 5 years. It perfect for its main purpose - talking to you guys. Joel on the other hand has a computer thats 1 year old. It was built specifically for gaming and had the best graphics card we could afford a year ago. I can happily play World of Warcraft on both. On my computer, though, World of Warcraft runs on the lowest resolution possible. Whilst the 'foreground' looks OK and I can interact witht he world, the background is rather blobby and indistinct. The colours are a little dull, and finding some particular herbs can behard because the contrast beteen the herb and hte background 'grass' isn't high. If there are alot of other players on the screen, the movements of all the people tend to be rather jerky. But on Joel's computer, he runs WoW with a high resolution (not the highest, ironically its hte monitor that can't compe with the highest setting, the card is fine). The World of Warcraft is beautifully laid out, you can see into infinity and it still has the detail you'd expect to see from that distance. The colours are bright and there's sublte shading on things that render on my computer just flat colour. The herbs and other small items you might need to pick up are far easier to see and I only get jerky movement when the netowrk is playing up, its never bothered by how many players are on the screen. Whilst I will admit that playing World of Warcraft on Joel's PC is a little more enjoyable simply because it looks prettier and I don't spend so much time 'mousing over' the screen trying to find things I can't see well, its nearly the same experience playing the game because the vast majority of the game is *not* dependant of having a gee-whiz graphics card. So whislt I'd recommend that you get the best graphics card that a) the computer you have can support and b) can afford, you don't necessarily need a super duper gee-whiz top of the range one to play games successfully. Yowie |
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[OT] Computer question for you knowledgeable folks
Outsider wrote:
All he can do is get a card that fits the slots you have and has the perfromance needed. You can't use the card you have. Without seeing it I would guess the computer you have has PCI slots. The other card sounds like it fits an AGP slot. Either way you need to figure out what the computer has (you can post a pic for some here to tell you) and what a video card will cost and will the combination work well enough to be worth the cost to you. Andy Thanks, Andy. Thanks, everyone for your input. I have posted photos of the inside of his computer, if that will help. They are he http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabraca...7602752662692/ Does that help? He's going nuts with worry. Of course I told him to wait, but did he listen to me? Nahhhhh. lol! Ginger-lyn -- Home Pages: http://www.spiritrealm.com/summer/ http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....mmer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
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[OT] Computer question for you knowledgeable folks
Ginger-lyn wrote:
Outsider wrote: All he can do is get a card that fits the slots you have and has the perfromance needed. You can't use the card you have. Without seeing it I would guess the computer you have has PCI slots. The other card sounds like it fits an AGP slot. Either way you need to figure out what the computer has (you can post a pic for some here to tell you) and what a video card will cost and will the combination work well enough to be worth the cost to you. Andy Thanks, Andy. Thanks, everyone for your input. I have posted photos of the inside of his computer, if that will help. They are he http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabraca...7602752662692/ Does that help? He's going nuts with worry. Of course I told him to wait, but did he listen to me? Nahhhhh. lol! Ginger-lyn It looks like the graphics are on the motherboard, so as all those slots are PCI that's the type of card he needs. He will have to diable the onboard graphics when he fits a new card. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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[OT] Computer question for you knowledgeable folks
Ginger-lyn wrote:
A friend of Richard's gave him a free computer (it was a giveaway from the guy's job) that works pretty well. It's a Dell, made for business intentions. Unfortunately, Richard is a gamer, and has a couple of games including Sim City 4, that he wants to play on it, but it seems to need a 3-D graphics card to make that work very well. So, a co-worker sold him a card for $40. It's a 6600LE GeForce NVIDIA 512 mb card. However, there seems to not be the right slot in the Dell for this thing (it even has its own fan!). I think there is a particular slot it needs go to into; the guy who sold it had it in an orange slot, and all the slots on the Dell are white. I have no clue what *any* of this means -- lol. But does anyone here much more informed than I have any idea what he can do? Thanks! Ginger-lyn Thanks Adrian, Matthew, rrb, and Andy for all your knowledgeable help. He realized from reading your responses and talking to a friend that this particular computer would only take a PCI card, not a PCI Express card. After throwing a hissy-fit, he first decided to save up for a "computer kit" to go with the new video card. Then he threw another hissy-fit and decided to go buy himself a PCI card. Then a friend of his ordered him a PCI card (and paid for it). I can't win. Ginger-lyn -- Home Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....mmer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
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