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Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« on: July 22, 2008, 02:33:32 am »
I would like to know if a pci express 2.0 card would work with a normal pci express slot? Because I'm thinking on buying a Nvidia geforce 9600gt Pci express 2.0, 512mb graphics card.
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2008, 02:35:58 am »
Yes, it's backwards compatible.
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2008, 02:40:49 am »
Yes, it's backwards compatible.
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Oh by the way, At the moment my pc has integrated graphics, I wanted to know if its true that after you plug in a new pci card your integrated graphics card would automatically disable itself.   

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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2008, 02:42:48 am »
Oh by the way, At the moment my pc has integrated graphics, I wanted to know if its true that after you plug in a new pci card your integrated graphics card would automatically disable itself.   

Not necessarily, but sometimes. There can be an option in the BIOS that lets you pick which video card interface to load the OS on initially.

After you boot to windows, you can pick what to do with the other card, leave it unused or set up a second monitor.
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2008, 02:48:14 am »
So you're saying that if I play a hardcore game at full quality one screen would have a perfectly fine FPS and the other one with the old card would lag lag like shit.

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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2008, 02:52:20 am »
So you're saying that if I play a hardcore game at full quality one screen would have a perfectly fine FPS and the other one with the old card would lag lag like shinyfoo.
That depends on the game, the programs you have open, and whatever you have on the second screen. I usually have a game all the way on high settings on my left monitor and my aim buddy list, irc, music player, and etc on the right. No lag / slowness. But that might be because my video card has two ports. I'd imagine two separate cards would have even less a chance of lag / slowness.
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2008, 02:54:30 am »
So you're saying that if I play a hardcore game at full quality one screen would have a perfectly fine FPS and the other one with the old card would lag lag like shinyfoo.
That depends on the game, the programs you have open, and whatever you have on the second screen. I usually have a game all the way on high settings on my left monitor and my aim buddy list, irc, music player, and etc on the right. No lag / slowness. But that might be because my video card has two ports. I'd imagine two separate cards would have even less a chance of lag / slowness.
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2008, 02:57:27 am »
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2008, 03:40:06 am »
I'm not sure but do different graphics card have different monitor ports? Because when I looked at the pictures more closely the ports seems to look a lot from my one at home.

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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2008, 03:47:30 am »
I'm not sure but do different graphics card have different monitor ports? Because when I looked at the pictures more closely the ports seems to look a lot from my one at home.
They all either have VGA or DVI, and occasionally an S-VIDEO or HDMI. When they have DVI they usually have an adapter so you can plug a VGA monitor into a DVI outlet.

Don't worry about getting a card you can't plug your monitor into. ;)
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2008, 03:54:57 am »
They usually come with a bunch of adapters in the box too, so it don't matter

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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2008, 03:59:13 am »
Oh yeah one last thing. The specs says that the minimum amount of voltage to run the 9600gt is 400 watts. I just discovered that my pc is running at 250 watts. Would that be a problem?

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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2008, 04:06:11 am »
Probably.  go about buying a new PSU.  Im pretty sure it will increase your computers power supply.. (that card is a beast :P)

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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2008, 04:10:50 am »
Okay, luckily I bought a new tower case last year that came with a 350 Watt PSU. Running that card with a lack of 50 watts isn't that much of a problem I think. Besides, my HDD and Fans are running on power save mode which would save me some extra power for the card.
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2008, 04:21:13 am »
Okay, luckily I bought a new tower case last year that came with a 350 Watt PSU. Running that card with a lack of 50 watts isn't that much of a problem I think. Besides, my HDD and Fans are running on power save mode which would save me some extra power for the card.
When you get a new PSU, make sure your motherboard can connect to it correctly.

I just discovered that my pc is running at 250 watts.
How did you discover that? Is that what your PSU is marked as? I've never, ever seen a PSU with only 250 watts.
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2008, 05:05:01 am »
No, I opened the case and it said 250W and theres a picture to prove it.

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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2008, 05:08:53 am »
bad quality picture, can't read shit

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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2008, 08:02:53 am »
I just discovered that my pc is running at 250 watts.
How did you discover that? Is that what your PSU is marked as? I've never, ever seen a PSU with only 250 watts.
Really? That was the standard back in the day.

Also you are down by much more than 50 watts, your card won't perform up to snuff if its underpowered. Considering newegg has at least one PSU in their DAILY deals you should just get one.
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2008, 08:50:19 am »
JupiterShadow, from that pic I can't see anything that says 250. In fact, on the upper right corner, I see P4-400W.

I wonder what that might mean...
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Re: Need some help on buying a new graphics card.
« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2008, 10:10:12 pm »
JupiterShadow, from that pic I can't see anything that says 250. In fact, on the upper right corner, I see P4-400W.

I wonder what that might mean...
HOLY FUCK!!! OMFG!!! I DIDN'T NOTICE!!! Thanks again jrgp. I accidentally misunderstood the 250volts for 250watts. Your a life saver. It seems I have everything I need to run that card. Thank you!