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| Dodger:
A few months ago, I was given a free Dell Dimension 2530 computer. The video card worked okay for blockland except for some lag from heavy bricks. But I bought spore thinking it will be entertaining. But it says my graphics card is not good enough. I did research and examining and determined my comp had purely pci slots. It has 2 that are being used (1 for wireless card, 1 for crappy graphics card) and 1 free pci slot. I did more research and discovered a pci nvidia geforce 6200 would be a good upgrade. I heard it can support (at least the agp put i think pci also) up to pixel shader 3.0 and spore is 2.0. Do yall have any tips for installing card, better suggestions (im on tight budget, not more than 50$) for the card or any other good ideas? Ohh and the slot is 120 pin, but not sure what this means. Oh and can i switch between graphics cards so i dont have to remove my old card? |
| Osak:
If you want something worthwhile, choose the 9500 gt. Or just get a new motherboard and get that same card for cheap. I found the driver for an update: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=r49442&formatcnt=1&libid=0&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=58292 |
| Dodger:
--- Quote from: koolkody12 on October 19, 2009, 08:11:09 PM ---If you want something worthwhile, choose the 9500 gt. Or just get a new motherboard and get that same card for cheap. --- End quote --- Does the 9500 gt have a pci version. And i dont want to replace mother board I'm on tight budget. |
| Osak:
--- Quote from: Dodger on October 19, 2009, 08:12:50 PM ---Does the 9500 gt have a pci version. And i dont want to replace mother board I'm on tight budget. --- End quote --- It does, but it exceeds your 50 dollar budget. So does the other solution. Attempt to get a budget of 150 or download the driver. I'm a loving idiot, that driver is not compatible with the current PC your have. |
| Dodger:
Yeah a dimension 2350 is like the worst comp for gaming. |
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