A good graphics card for Blockland

[computermix]

My step brother moved in awhile ago, and he has a crappy HP Pavilion (a1644x to be exact) He keeps using the computer that I use to play blockland because "his is too crappy". I got tired of this so I recently ordered some RAM for him at crucial.com and installed it awhile ago. It runs much faster now (it now has 3GB which is plenty) for everyday use, but not for any 3D crap he gets into.

His VGA cable that is hooked up from his monitor to his computer is directly attached to the motherboard and I have no idea what that is called. He had no graphics card in its slot so I tried identifying it the best I could.

Slot type: PCI-E x16 (v2.0?)
The card I think that will work

It's low profile and has 1GB of RAM (+520 core clock), do you think that's suitable for running Blockland at medium-low graphics options and short draw distance? I'm not even sure if it would fit into the slot/something horrible would happen.

If you have any cards that you think would make it run better/will defiantly work, try to keep it below $50 because I'm not Bill Gates.

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[Freeze]

What's your CPU like? You don't want bottlenecking.

[computermix]

What's your CPU like? You don't want bottlenecking.

The hell is bottlenecking? And what do you mean "like"

[Freeze]

The hell is bottlenecking? And what do you mean "like"

Well what type and brand?
ane bottlenecking is when something is to good so it outweighs the other part in comparison so you dont get as much performance

alsonoedit: looking at the gpu selected it doesnt look like youd get it unless your cpu was really good or realpy bad

pretty much any modern gpu can run blockland, is there anything else you want to play?

[computermix]

Well what type and brand?
ane bottlenecking is when something is to good so it outweighs the other part in comparison so you dont get as much performance

alsonoedit: looking at the gpu selected it doesnt look like youd get it unless your cpu was really good or realpy bad

pretty much any modern gpu can run blockland, is there anything else you want to play?

Oh jeez, I meant to say the HP pavilion a1642x. I looked up the specs on google since I'm not at my fathers house and it says it has a Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (C) DC 1.86 GHz

Minecraft is ideal, but at high fog.

[otto-san]

My sister can run Blockland on her laptop with a really old integrated Intel graphics you can't even seem to find drivers for on the Intel website.

I think you'll be fine with a pretty low-quality card.

[computermix]

My sister can run Blockland on her laptop with a really old integrated Intel graphics you can't even seem to find drivers for on the Intel website.

I think you'll be fine with a pretty low-quality card.

Then the one in the topic should be fine for me.

[Blocki]

How the forget is 3GB ram plenty?

Aww this thread about crap computers makes me want to Self Delete

[otto-san]

How the forget is 3GB ram plenty?

how is it not

[Blocki]

how is it not

Because

16 GB is not enough

[Planr]

Because

16 GB is not enough

wtf lol?

my quadcore gaming laptop has 4 GB ram and works great. you don't know what you are talking about.

[otto-san]

Because

16 GB is not enough

what are you even doing on your computer

and do you understand the difference of 32-bit programs in comparison to 64-bit programs

[Blocki]

what are you even doing on your computer

and do you understand the difference of 32-bit programs in comparison to 64-bit programs

I'm talking about insane gaming PC's
Those include at least
an i7 3960X
and at least one GTX690 (not out yet)

That stuff that I get on xmas

[aludane]

I'm talking about insane gaming PC's
Those include at least
an i7 3960X
and at least one GTX690 (not out yet)

That stuff that I get on xmas

No where in the loving world would you need 16gb of RAM to play a videogame.

[otto-san]

I'm talking about insane gaming PC's
Those include at least
an i7 3960X
and at least one GTX690 (not out yet)

That stuff that I get on xmas

Oh, so by "not enough" you mean more "people seem to still want more"?

that makes sense