Help with video drivers

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jockmcjock2000

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Hello,
I wonder if anyone could help with the following:

I am using a Dell Dimension 1100, I thinks it's one of their lowest spec machines. My brother and I wish to upgrade the video card so that we may play battlefield 1942 at a higher graphics configuration. The trouble is my brother asked at a local computer shop regarding this and was informed that the machine has an on-board graphics card and doesn't have the neccessary slots to upgrade, is this true?
If this is true, surely there is a way to install a graphics card, even if it is installed externally via a USB?

If anyone has any information regarding this please get in touch!

Thanks.

:) :)
 
How old is the computer? If I were you I would maunually check the motherboard to see if it have any of the possible necessary slots like PCI, PCI-Express or the like. If not then the salesman is right, i have no clue about USB graphics cards, i have never heard of such a thing. Maybe someone else has...
 
goobafish said:
How old is the computer? If I were you I would maunually check the motherboard to see if it have any of the possible necessary slots like PCI, PCI-Express or the like. If not then the salesman is right, i have no clue about USB graphics cards, i have never heard of such a thing. Maybe someone else has...
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There has to be PCI slots. PCI-E slots are a maybe...

How much money did you spend on the system? Would you happen to know where a graphics slot is located on the motherboard? There is no such thing as USB graphics cards. If there is no graphic card slot then the only thing that you could do is get a low-end (very low-end) graphics card for a PCI slot. It would be a step above integrated graphics, but not much higher
 
thanks

Thankyou for your help, but alas there are no PCI slots on the machine!!

I shall have to save for a new machine hopefully the new Dell XPS!!!

Thanks

Jockmcjock
 
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