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Summary: Transformation for your old PC with onboard graphics
Review: If you have an older computer with an integrated (on-board) graphics board and find that you can no longer play the latest games then you need to upgrade your graphics card.I have a brand new system at home and took my older computer with me on the road. I meant to use it for a few spreadsheet needs but ended up upgrading it quite a bit and now I am really glad I did. Started with: Compaq Presario AMD-K2 380mhz with 64mb and a 4mb (shared) on-board graphics card powering a 14" monitor that was ten years old. I upgraded to this card, a 17" monitor plus 384mb of RAM and a software upgrade to Windows XP and it's like having a brand new computer. I've tried it with a few games and it works great. Using the "fish" screen saver at serenescene.com I am registering 60fps when I used to get 15! Most important thing to do before installing this card: Disable your onboard graphics card. How? Simply right click on the background of your desktop, select properties, and then settings. Now select the ADVANCED button and select the graphics adapter tab. Choose properties and then select DISABLE. It will ask you to re-start your computer, so do it. When it boots back up, close it all back down, power down and install the card (note the PCI slot and how it matches the gold teeth on the new graphics card you have). Don't force it too hard, but be firm. Move your monitor over to the new graphics card and restart your computer. Soon you will need the driver disk loaded in the cd-rom drive and you will be finished when they are loaded. It took me about 15 minutes and I was up and playing games in no time at all. Now for the bad news: You have a computer with a PCI slot and no AGP slot. PCI slots are really slow compared to AGP so anytime you compare your numbers with someone with an AGP slot (and maybe an inferior card) they may have better numbers. Also, there will soon be games on the market that will simply run to slow on an older computer, however updated your machine is. If you really need to be on the bleeding edge then I suggest getting a whole new machine. But, if you simply want to breath some new life into your old machine, buying this card and installing it will transform your machine into a new computer capable of playing any game on the market right now. Works well with Windows XP, although XP will warn you during installation that these drivers are untested with XP. Well worth the money!
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Summary: MX is bad
Review: The MX series of NVidia is not good. For only a little more money you can purchase the Ti series.
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Summary: Check your system first!!!
Review: Well this is frustrating... I've been searching for a decent, inexpensive graphics card for my computer (P-II 450 256 megs SDRAM, Intel 440 Motherboard) for ages, and this one came recommended by a friend. What he -and the system requirements listed on the box- didn't tell me is that you must have AT LEAST a 250 watt power supply for this card to run (although running a system with less than 300 watts may cause flickering and assorted other annoying problems). The only way I found this out is by checking their website AFTER I bought the card and it wouldn't work. Undaunted, I went to the Gateway website and purchased a 300 watt power supply for 41 dollars and even after I upgraded my power supply the card's "easy to install drivers" wouldn't autodetect. I manually installed the proper drivers and the card worked, but ONLY when locked in a 60 HZ refresh rate... I checked their website again to find that the card "may not work to full capacity with older Intel chipsets". Don't make the same expensive mistake that I did... Be sure your computer has 250+ watts **BEFORE** you buy it, and make double sure that it has a recent Intel chipset or you will end up stuck with a card that barely works.
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Summary: Best Solution for New Gamers...
Review: When I ordered this card from Amazon, this was the best Video Card to buy for me... It had good preference, and the price was affordable. I really love this card and i am planning to buy GeForce4 PCI 64mb (also on AMAZON).
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