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| brickybob:
I'm trying to revive an old stuffbox for a computer so I can play CS 1.6 on LAN with my friend. What video card should I get? I had the Radeon HD 4550 and it's worked well and it's about $45. Gimmie suggestions. |
| MackTheHunter:
Depends on what ports you have in your PC. Provide what motherboard you have. |
| brickybob:
--- Quote from: MackTheHunter on January 03, 2011, 10:55:20 PM ---Depends on what ports you have in your PC. Provide what motherboard you have. --- End quote --- It has USB ports(?) and whatever comes with hp pavilion 6735. |
| MackTheHunter:
--- Quote from: brickybob on January 03, 2011, 11:49:23 PM ---It has USB ports(?) and whatever comes with hp pavilion 6735. --- End quote --- This is your motherboard. This is the layout of your motherboard. 1 - COM 2 connector 2 - CPU fan connector 3 - CPU socket 370 4 - 82810-DC100 5 - DIMM sockets 6 - RTC battery 15 7 - PS fan connector 8 - Power connector 9 - Floppy drive connector 10 - IT8702 11 - Speaker 12 - IDE connectors 13 - JP-6 clear CMOS 14 - Front panel connector 15 - 82802AP (ROM) 16 - 82801AA 17 - CD-ROM connector 18 - PCI slots As you can see through the layout you only have 3 regular PCI slots. Some graphical processors the are designed for PCI-Express (PCI-E) can be socketed in a regular PCI slot. Quite a few of them do not support this. Put in short: It's really necessary that you have a PCI-E slot on your computer if you want to install a graphical processor that is at least powerful. If you want you can research Graphical Processors that still support regular PCI. Also going to point out that you're motherboard still only supports IDE for Disc drives and hard drives... ouch... |
| Ziyek:
--- Quote from: brickybob on January 03, 2011, 10:52:05 PM ---I'm trying to revive an old stuffbox for a computer so I can play CS 1.6 on LAN with my friend. What video card should I get? I had the Radeon HD 4550 and it's worked well and it's about $45. Gimmie suggestions. --- End quote --- Thats the exact video card I have. |
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