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Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by zain6267, Sep 4, 2010.

  1. zain6267

    zain6267 Member

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    I don't know much about this stuff so I need help.
    I want a graphics card for windows 7, and i want quite good speed/graphics on the computer.
    However, my motherboard, which is a Xenon4, only has PCI slots
    My computer is a HP Pavillion t191.uk
    My Chipset is i845G
    I have 3 PCI and 1 AGP.
    The Xenon4 Motherboard specifications are found here - http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00019945.
    What Graphics card under £45 should I get?
     
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  2. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    agp is better then pci as can be upto 8x faster then pci.
     
  3. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    Not possible on AGP, and not possible for £45 either.

    What are you trying to do with the PC? There's no point spending £45 on a new graphics card if the game you want to play still won't run on it.
     
  4. KillerBug

    KillerBug Active member

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    Put that Xeon 4 in a museum where it belongs.
     
  5. jkl

    jkl Regular member

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    wow all of those were harsh...yet true. sorry to say, don't worry though i had to deal with a pent 1 till 2006, with it's spacious 6gb hdd, and "i could write this essay in pen faster!" speeds. (2006 i upgraded to the infamous linuxbox.) and have yet to go back to intel, right now i upgrade to the latest stuff 3very 1-2years...however i still have that 6gb hdd, don't use it anymore (still works though 0.0)
     
  6. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    jkl, got you beat as i still have my 1st hard drive, a 105meg rodime scsi half height 5.25" drive which i haven't used for at least 17yrs.
     
  7. jkl

    jkl Regular member

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    yes but does it still work? lol, mine even still has a modified version of xp on it so i use it to install my upgrades through vista and win7. (seriously have to buy an acutal install installing 3 os's to get to my win7 sux)(bc have to install the actual xp from the modded one then vista then win7 for some reason if i don't do the first step vista says i don't have a valid os) 105mb rodime though...wonder if it could be sold to a museum for some $$ :p
     
  8. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    worked when i switched over 3.5" scsi drives.
     
  9. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    Ah the good old 'my hardware's older than yours' competition :p
    I always lose this one, haha, and ddp usually wins :p
    My first PC was a relatively modern Pentium 3 450 with Windows 98SE and 128MB of RAM, and the hard disk was Gigabytes in double figures!
     
  10. DXR88

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    i have an ST-412 that goes into a 80286 machine, beat that.

    yeah OP time to drop some cash on a decent machine.
     
  11. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    how about a clone xt turbo?
     
  12. DXR88

    DXR88 Regular member

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    No but I've got a TRS-80. the last time i hooked it up it killed my tape collection which was about 1999 its been setting in my attic for 11 years.

    A Clone turbo doesn't really mean anything, Who made the Turbo clone would be more appropriate.
     
  13. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    how about a ti-99 4a computer that uses a tv for monitor & tape cassette for data storage?
     
  14. DXR88

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    okay,okay. you win.

    poor OP even the mods off topic on this one.
     
  15. zain6267

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    I just want it because nothing on windows 7 seems to work on it (e.g. google earth, 3Dvia etc). Is there any way a driver update can fix this, if so where from?
     
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