I have an hp pavilion a350n desktop that came with a geforce 4 mx440 (comps about 2 yrs old) and was told it would last me a few years, which turned out to not be true since I played some games that got about 10 fps
. I have since learned that my next computer will be built by me. Anyway, I put in a radeon 9800 pro 256 about a year ago in the AGP slot since the cheap a$$ mobo didnt come with PCIe (could of gotten a much better card for the same price if it did
). I had to use the adapter to separate the power cable to my HD because my psu didnt have a separate slot for a graphics card power cable (more cheap crap). I have noticed that when the fan turns on (on the vid card) the entire computer locks up for about 3 seconds and I get a lot of crashes in games, which pi$$es me off. Also, the entire computer performs kinda shitty, and I was wondering if is all the PSU's fault. I heard somewhere that these crashes and such were cause by inadequite power.
. I have since learned that my next computer will be built by me. Anyway, I put in a radeon 9800 pro 256 about a year ago in the AGP slot since the cheap a$$ mobo didnt come with PCIe (could of gotten a much better card for the same price if it did ). I had to use the adapter to separate the power cable to my HD because my psu didnt have a separate slot for a graphics card power cable (more cheap crap). I have noticed that when the fan turns on (on the vid card) the entire computer locks up for about 3 seconds and I get a lot of crashes in games, which pi$$es me off. Also, the entire computer performs kinda shitty, and I was wondering if is all the PSU's fault. I heard somewhere that these crashes and such were cause by inadequite power.
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2nd, I think you're pretty lucky to have AGP on this "cheap" computer. 2 years ago, they didn't even have PCI Express!