Hello there, I'm looking to upgrade my Graphics Card, at the moment its a GeForce 4. I'm looking for some recommendations? Oh and i haven't got any PCIExpress slots either, I've seen a 7800GS is this any good: Pentium 4 1GB Ram Columbia 2 Motherboard Imedia 5094 Is there anything else you might need to know?
It depends what you're doing with the pc. If you want to play recent or top titles, while the 7800GS may handle them fine, the rest of your PC may very well hold it back. If you're going to play Crysis, Call of Duty 4, Stalker, and demanding games like that you'll need to replace your motherboard, CPU and RAM as well. If it's a premade Packard Bell PC (this goes for any brand though) it'll have a very low rating power supply in it, which means if you buy that new card you may have power issues (which can be very bad), so whichever way you go you'll need a new power supply as well. Don't buy any old cheap power supply though or you'll make the situaton worse. Get a well made one from companies like Antec, Thermaltake etc.