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arb54

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My knowledge of hardware is poor. I have a AsRock K7VM2 R3.0 mother board with a Integrated ProSavarage8 3DGraphic thing (chipset?)

I want to upgrade my graphic card but don't know what will fit the board. It has 1 x AGP (4x/2x) and 2 PCI slots.

Can any one recommend a card & what i do with the integrated chip to disable it?

Any help would be appreciated. Al. :)
 
what processor do you have, and how much RAM? (if you know that, it would be very helpfull, then people could look for a nice card that would suit the system, no need putting an extremely strong card into a fairly slow system (dont take offense of that please ) )
anyhow,.. seeing as you have a K7 with 2x/4x AGP... i gues you have a Thunderbird or a Palomino (or ofc a Duron, wich is a stripped down version from either of those 2 )
for that,... i would suggest a GeForce 6200 on AGP :o I had one of those in my 1400+ Thunderbird with 1Gb SDRAM pc, and it worked perfectly.
also, that system was pretty balanced with that card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121542
Its pretty cheap, doesnt consume much power, and would suit the pc (I think,.. but im not sure, since its only a guess what pc you have atm =) )

as for disabling onboard video,.. that is done in the bios (the screen you get into when you pres del during the startup (usually))
 
Yea with a older socket A board with a 2X-4X slot I would go with that or might even a plain 6600 or something like a ATI 9600 or 9800. Anything over that would be kinda of a overkill for the board! Plus a waste of money because if you upgrade the board later, more than likley it will have PCIe
 
Cheers for that. I have an Athlon XP 2200 (1.8ghz) with 768mb of ram (i think that's how much, i'm on work PC at the mo).

I just bought a tft screen which likes to run on 1280 x 1024 res. Since then my pc has slowed down a fair bit. Not sure if the system is struggling to keep up with the demand so thought i'd try a better card.
 
get a 6200 or a 6600 :) that should be great for that system :o
(any idea about what Powersupplie it has? how many watt)
 
Ermm, no i would have to check later. It was a budget PC a few years ago, it does the job but has limited upgrade ability. I will check out the cards mentioned and get one sorted.

Thanks for your help!
 
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