Video Cards

[dafa222]

I've been planning to buy a 512mb video card and I was wondering if there are more than 1 slots for the video cards.

And are there any compatability issues regarding the mother board? Because my cousin said that some video cards are not compatible with some motherboards.

Off topic:
I don't know why and I'm not joking... my current video card has a memory of 320MB, is this possible? What I know, there is only a 128, 256, and 512MB video card.

[In-f3st]

320MB is possible it was the crossover period between 256 and 512.
These cards were kinda in the middle class when it came to prices (of high end cards).

To tell you if it is compatible you need to give us your specs and on the other hand you could just google your MBO and the GPU to see if there are any troubles.

[Raymond]

We need In-f3st to help us with these kind of questions ;)
woody is another hardware guru but we seldom see him around nowadays.

[Lenogris]

you can always use your regular pci slots for video cards you will just have a bogged down performance from them as for if you mobo supports sli or has 2 pci slots we need your mobo info

o and ray i love me some hardware too as long as its like ram graphics or some internal stuff (never was much for moniters or printers and usb drive)

[nivek_hcerg]

I think a 320Mb memory vid card is possible. I found one for sale at an online shop

[dafa222]

Ohhh... bout' the specs.... I don't know about it... it's custom built by HP, you can look at HP.com and the PC type is a6540d... And I haven't looked inside my computer too... since it's new.

Anyway... thanks for the added info... especially to Mr. Raymond... Woot!

:)

[aBg_rOnGak]

According here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01386897&lc=en&dlc=tr&cc=tr&lang=tr&product=3746049, your board have gma3100 but it have PCIe x16...so you'll be able to use latest gfx cards (but please check your power supply....I suggest 8600gts at the most)... but let's hope that your gfx card is NOT nVidia's 8800Gt (or izzit GTS?) 320MB version, or otherwise you might downgrade your system's graphics performance (if you change it to 8600GTS, that is :P)

[dafa222]

No, I don't think it's NVidia, I think it's intel family chipset GMA card, I think... :lol:

Anyway thanks again for the added info.