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Post #1Okay, I have a pretty old computer. However a lot of my games run well, even with the settings almost maxed out.
The problem's that my games look dull and boring, and some don't even run because of Pixel Shader problems. I was wanting to upgrade to a graphics card with a little better specs, so I can play games such as Portal, EP2, etc.
So what I wanted to know, is that if I get a new graphics card, will it work even though my computer is pretty old?
Some basic spec are 640MB RAM and a Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.80 GHz processor. And my (terrible) graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce2 Mx400.
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AGP Slot? or PCI?
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If you have enough money you should upgrade your whole computer, Ram is cheap, new motherboard(Asus is very nice in my opinion), ATI graphic cards are cheap and have good performance geforce too but they are more expensive, you can get a good AMD CPU with triple core or if you want to a quad core. There are plenty good AMD CPU's to a cheap price.
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Do what the guy above me said. Getting a new GPU would extend the life of your PC. I technically did that, and got a Pentium III to run Garry's Mod. Lol. But to be honest, if you have the money, just make a whole new system.
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This because the card has to actually suit the MoBo
This too... Asus is good for me too. And it's always nice to have a quicker pc.
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A new mobo would suit mostly any new card as well
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Yeah, I'll probably just upgrade my comp. Found a moderately priced one that looked pretty good. Hopefully sometime this year it will be up and running.
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Post what it was here so we can confirm it's value/quality...
I've seen people think they were getting great computers cheap and in the end the computer was slow and crap.
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No point in upgrading that shit, buy a new computer.
If you do buy a new gpu, you will later realize that your CPU and your RAM are shit aswell, and to get new ones you'd (probably) need a newer motherboard.
Agree x 1
