Geforce 7800GTX

s_m_w_d

s_m_w_d

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System Requirements

Minimum of a 450 Watt power supply (buying new PSU)

All the rest below i have no idea how do i check!

An available 6 pin PCI-E power connector (hard drive power dongle to PCI-E 6 pin adapter included with card)
 
does this card plug into your ordinary pci slot or the other video card slot arent there different types AGP X2 X4 X8! is that something else to worry about!
 
s_m_w_d said:
does this card plug into your ordinary pci slot or the other video card slot arent there different types AGP X2 X4 X8! is that something else to worry about!
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there are 3 different types of video adapters, one is PCI, one is AGP, and one is PCI-Express. The 7800 is PCI-Express, you cant put it in a regular PCI Slot.
 
does this card plug into your ordinary pci slot or the other video card slot arent there different types AGP X2 X4 X8! is that something else to worry about!
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are you telling me you haven't even checked to see you have agp or pci-e
download and run cpu-z
http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php
look at page mainboard, look under graphics version and see what it says!
 
they dont make agp version of the 7800gtx. So you cant use that. The best the make is a 6800ultra on agp.

Could i also ask your other system specs because it seems as though your getting a gpu thats too far beyond the rest of you system
 
Dimension 4600
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OS: XP Home Edition
P4 2.6 Northwood
512mb Ram ( off topic for one second would it be worth putting 4G of ram in when cost isnt an issue)
120G Harddrive

Graphics Interface
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Version APG V3.0
Max supported x8

what else is ther?
 
off topic for one second would it be worth putting 4G of ram in when cost isnt an issue
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no, it unnessessary amount 1gb will be enough

I judge your cpu to be a bottleneck here. If you have an unlimited budget why not just build a new system?
The fact of the matter is that if you stick a 6800ultra in there you not going to be able to use it to its maximum as the cpu is going to be a limiting factor. Your currently on a socket 478 cpu so that mean the max you can goto on an upgrade is 3.4 (but this dependson your chipset)
What is your budget get build this gaming systems your after
 
maybe all this computer needs is a bit of ram!
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It does need osme ram, but the cpu is still going to be limiting

suppose i could spend up to 2500!
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pounds or dollars
With that much money you should build a new gaming rig. You will be able to build something much much better.
 
i know intel are multi tasking and AMD are more gaming im so sick off hearing that but what king of power do AMD have compared to Intel Processor wise!
 
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