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Old Mar 23, 2006 | 09:03 PM
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Default hw crap is my graphics card?

ive got a Nvidia Geforce FX 5200



im looking to upgrade to the best poss without spending rediculous money

or is the one ive got ok? it doesnt seem to bad but graphics seem blocky and it doesnt flow nicely, seems to stammer slightly
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Old Mar 23, 2006 | 09:04 PM
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is it realively simple to upgrade at home?
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 12:27 AM
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Ive got the fx 5500

Its all i need tho so its a "top jobber"
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 05:17 AM
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Originally Posted by cahzz
is it realively simple to upgrade at home?
Think its just a case of slotting the card into one of your AGP or PCI-EXPRESS slots and then installing the drivers you get with it on a cd? Never bought a graphics card though so dont quote me!
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 07:39 AM
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was thinking sbout upgrading to somethink that will really display some nice graphics mines good but once it gets warm it can't really handle it
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 08:02 AM
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What sort of games do you want to play ?
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 12:11 PM
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games like COD, far cry instincts ect ect

all types really, im just thinking if i can get my PC leagues ahead of my xb360 im going to sell it as i dont use it very much at all
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by cahzz
games like COD, far cry instincts ect ect

all types really, im just thinking if i can get my PC leagues ahead of my xb360 im going to sell it as i dont use it very much at all

Don't think that will be cheap.
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 04:42 PM
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You may as well bin it and buy a new one. YOu will struggle with that motherboard to get any decent games to run unfortunately.

To get good games to run, it's the combo of processor + ram + graphics card.

And you are very limited to what you can do inside that case
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Old Mar 27, 2006 | 08:02 AM
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How much money do you want to spend?
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Old Apr 1, 2006 | 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by cahzz
was thinking sbout upgrading to somethink that will really display some nice graphics mines good but once it gets warm it can't really handle it
Are you able to build it yourself? IF you do it will save a lot of cash. I built mine about 3 months ago to run top games at the highest possible graphics settings, it cost about £1200, but it is worth it!

Case from here http://www.xcase.co.uk/acatalog/copy...de_deluxe.html (Cooling isn't a prob with 3 fans and 580W power supply!)

AMD Dual Core processor, Geforce 7800GT graphics card, 2 GB RAM, ASUS SLI ready motherboard all from www.dabs.com
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