Video cards?

[kizzo 10+ year member]

I need to get a decent video card pretty soon for my new desktop. This is my case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811144162

it has 4 expansion slots, im guessing that's for video cards and sound cards etc. but im not sure if a regular sized card will fit or if i need a small form factor one.

im looking to spend 100-150 on a decent card.

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[BoomBoomBoy 10+ year member]

There's no such thing as small form factor vid cards.

There's PCI, VGA, and PCI Express.

P.S. Your motherboard, not your case determines what type of vid card to use.

 

[nate2587 10+ year member]

where is your motherboard? thats what we need

i cant believe u paid 70 dollars for that ugly case lol

also what games you play? do you have dual LCD's? or dual CRT's? (monitor) need to get a round about idea of what this video card is being used for

 

[nate2587 10+ year member]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143049

this should be sufficient enough (that is if you have PCI express)

 

[kizzo 10+ year member]

where is your motherboard? thats what we need

i cant believe u paid 70 dollars for that ugly case lol

also what games you play? do you have dual LCD's? or dual CRT's? (monitor) need to get a round about idea of what this video card is being used for

She may be ugly but it's going to save me some space in my dorm next year.

it has 3 PCI slots and one PCI express 16x slot.

It's a cheaper motherboard but it aint that bad. It's a Gigabyte GA-945GZM-S2 and im running an intel core 2 duo e6300 cpu, 2gb of ram, and a 320gb hd. I'm just going to be using one 19" LCD monitor and ill be playing games every now and then. Games like Command & Conquer 3, Empire Earth, Half life, etc. Nothing too crazy but id like to find a good deal on what that suits my needs.

 

[nate2587 10+ year member]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143049

for sure this one fits your needs. Also have you tried overclocking that e6300 i got my e6400 to 3.6 ghz stable

 

[Imtjnotu 5,000+ posts]

get a 7900nvid and call it a day..or like an x1850 from ati

 

[kizzo 10+ year member]

Na i havent i dont even know how i know very little about computer hardware stuff.

Im also trying to pick up wireless internet on my desktop what kind of device would i need to install to do that?

 

[nate2587 10+ year member]

get a 7900nvid and call it a day..or like an x1850 from ati

im not a huge ATI/AMD fan... i don't mind AMD so much but i am a pure nVidia fan i tried a couple ATI cards and i hated them... but thats just me...

Also what spd of ddr2 ram are you running

 

[nate2587 10+ year member]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833117205

for wireless on the desktop

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124126or something like this might work better

actually anything linksys would be good for wireless but if your going to live in a dorm you shouldn't need wireless the dorm should already have highspeed access in all the rooms

 

[Bloodstalker999 10+ year member]

There's no such thing as small form factor vid cards.

You are wrong on this, they make low profile video cards, which is basically the same thing as a small form factor video card

 

[nate2587 10+ year member]

You are wrong on this, they make low profile video cards, which is basically the same thing as a small form factor video card

never heard of it.. get me a link

 

[Bloodstalker999 10+ year member]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=&Subcategory=48&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=low+profile

 

[nate2587 10+ year member]

ive seen them before but never new what they where called

 

[Bloodstalker999 10+ year member]

Well now you know //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif