Upgrading family computer

[Skizzor]

My family computer is a HP Pavilion 514x with 256mb ram, celeron at 2000mhz, and intergrated video. Im going to a get a 512mb stick but im not sure if the mobo will support a new video card.

 

[holyjunk]

First run cpuz and tell us what type of grahpics interface you have.
Cpu-Z 1.35 Free Download - Softpedia

 

[Skizzor]

I do not see a indicator for graphics interface on cpu-z

 

[holyjunk]

The tab of mainboard? At the bottom?

 

[m0nk3ys1ms]

I do not see a indicator for graphics interface on cpu-z

Why don't you just pop open the case and see what kind of slot it has, (ie. AGP, PCI-e, PCI)?

 

[Skizzor]

The tab of mainboard? At the bottom?

Nope I dont have it. Well it dosent have a video card, just 8mb intergrated from mobo.

 

[SC7]

Sounds to me like this would only have PCI, just get a PCI interface card, because it's guaranteed to have PCI slots. I highly doubt that a celeron with 256mb would have AGP. You still have to change the BIOS settings right before you install the card. Anyway, from that same CPU-Z site, download PC wizard, and somewhere in there, you can find what interface you have.

 

[ChrisDVD]

run Memory upgrades, graphics cards, flash media, and usb storage at Crucial.com test, and it will tell you which exatly will be good for your HP.

sorry for that wierd link, it just appear by itself :S

 

[big_rubber_duckey]

Nope I dont have it. Well it dosent have a video card, just 8mb intergrated from mobo.

How old is the pc. I had an old clone and it was from 2000 and it even had 16.

 

[Skizzor]

How old is the pc. I had an old clone and it was from 2000 and it even had 16.

Its from 2003 and it can set it to 64mb in the bios but it takes away from my ram so I keep it at 8 since i dont game on this computer.

 

[SC7]

Then if you don't game, do you really need a graphics card increase? I guess it may depend on some things, because my Integrated 845G looks so fuzzy, especially on my nice MAG LCD monitor, that I had to get a cheap PCI FX5500 for text quality issues alone. That fixed it, as did my old Radeon 9200. It's nice, because some apps have issues with integrated graphics, so PCI does more than enough for what I need.