Can i upgrade my graphics card??

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ok, so i need to upgrade my graphics card to allow for vista. my current graphics card i think is integrated, its a SiS 661FX Rev1 64mb. can i upgrade? if so what type of card can i get? appolagies for the lack of knowledge!!
 
Hmm if i had to guess is either way a ago or pci, try opening your case and look if you have something that looks like this the brown is an agp slot, the white are pci slots

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chupacabra said:
Hmm if i had to guess is either way a ago or pci, try opening your case and look if you have something that looks like this the brown is an agp slot, the white are pci slots

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ok- i had a look and it looks nearly identical to the picture you showed, it has the brown slot above the pci slots... so what does that mean? thanks
 
Well thats a AGP slot (brown one) so u`ll need to find urself a AGP graphics card. I would look at the 7600-7800 nVidia series.
 
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I agree with ghostfacesuk, just make sure your power supply can handle it, you can check this by reading the specifications on it and look at the 12V@ rail and how much wattage it has
 
ghostfacesuk said:
Well thats a AGP slot (brown one) so u`ll need to find urself a AGP graphics card. I would look at the 7600-7800 nVidia series.
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ok thanks for that- one more thing, will the new graphics card get its power supply from that agp slot or will it need its own power supply directly from the PSU (as i dont think there is one spare)?
 
ok- it now seems as if i am blessed with a very small powered PSU- 250W.- see pic. taking this into consideration, can anyone recommend a graphics card that will run on this? thanks
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I would have a look on a computer shop site like www.newegg.com

Get something like a 350-450w PSU.

EDIT: most graphics cards these days need atleast 350W PSUs to run them so it might be worth just upgrading anyway.
 
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PSU will not be to hard to find, just make sure its a ATX 2.0 PSU or above and that its more than 300W :P
 
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