Motherboard gpu?

Pizza_Boy

Pizza_Boy

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just wondering cause i got this motherboard called the gigabyte GA-M61P-S3. It supports Nvidia Geforce 6100 and Nforce 430, but i use an nvidia geforce 7100 gs...is my gpu suppose to be an Nvidia Geforce 6100 and Nforce 430
so when i play a game like fear for a while my comp just freezes with the screen all pixelated and then my comp just reboots
Just wondering if you could give me a hand cause i'm having troubles with my gpu.

thanks
 
Your motherboard "GPU" is only slightly better than integrated graphics. You are not supposed to be playing games on a GPU that is on the motherboard, to me its basically integrated graphics, most of them doesn't have its own memory and has to "steal" system memory. You should really get a dedicated graphics card for games like FEAR. Its not surprising that it froze, I don't expect you to get a playable framerate at ANY detail level even IF it ran.

Doesn't your motherboard have an AGP or PCI-E slot?
 
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The S3 has a PCI-E slot I think but he's using a 7100GS; those cards I think were designed to get Vista running on the bare minimum, nothing else.
 
Don't even think about playing games like Fear with a graphics card below a 7600GT. Even with a 7600GT, it would struggle.
 
Neither one, your onboard Geforce 6100 or your 7100gs video card are not good for newer games. Like elitehacker said you will need aleast a 7600GT or up to play games decent. Plus what kind of P/S do you have?
 
well i got the oppurtunity to trade my gpu, but i have to pay a little extra if i want a decent one
anyone here know anyone gpu's that could play fear but under 100 bux?
 
As I have said many times before, you will need at the VERY LEAST a 7600GT to play ANY of the current generation games. A word of caution on the 7600GT at FEAR, you will not be able to turn many of the eye candy on. If you run the game in 1024x768, then expect to set all the setting to low with AA, and AS off. Depending on your CPU, RAM and other specs, you might have to turn shadows off as well. I tested a 7600GT on a X6800 CPU with 2GB of RAM, and Fear ran at a decent framerate at 1024x768, on medium detail settings, Shadows on, and AA & AS off, but the game was definitely playable, albeit not in its full glory, but hey for under $US100, who is complaining?
 
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