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Answer» Hi I'm upgrading my Mobo/CPU for the first time and it will also be my first time installing these items. I'm looking for info suggestions on the items I want to buy. How good is the on board video? Will it play what my GeForce 6200 plays or will it play newer games? typically, onboard video isnt as great as a seperate Graphics card so keep you GeForce. but make sure that your NEW motherboard your buying has a AGP port for your graphics card.You'd also need new RAM . . . unless your board is a freak of nature and defies both Asus and the laws of...something...your RAM is not DDR2, so you'd need to buy DDR2 RAM as well. You'll struggle to find a modern board with AGP slots for your video card, and some onboard graphics will outclass that card anyway. Out of interest, what's your budget?150.00 is my budget. I want to get a motherboard with decent onboard video and a PCI E slot. I have been slowly upgrading my pc since last year and once I upgrade the cpu+Mobo I'm only a few parts shy of 2 computers. All my old parts I saved so that my son can have a pc. The motherboard and processor I mentioned in my 1st post are what I am interested in. If you have other ideas I welcome them but after researching and drooling over parts I can't afford [ CHUCKLES] I picked these as my possible buys. I wanted to know if the motherboard I mentioned was good because TigerDirect offers a low price on it. I'm sometimes leery about low prices.Well, I can't find any better deals I guess . . . does 2GB of DDR2 RAM fit into your budget as well as the mobo and CPU?Eek, umm 1gig of ddr2 puts me slightly over budget but i could do it. I was certain that this could support my current ram because of the spec notes MEMORY Dual-channel DDR2 memory architecture 2 x 240-pin DDR2 DIMM socket support up to 16 GB* Support DDR2 800/667/533/400 DDR2 SDRAM * (Due to the DRAM maximum size is 2GB at present, the memory maximum size we have tested is 4GB) Note it says 400? Mine is 400. whether is ddr or ddr2 who knows...but if the specs says it supports 400 then it should support my ram right? Unless there is this supernatural ddr2 400 ram that defies physics ^_^; I really thought mine was DDR2. But I can't tell..There is absolutely no way that motherboard, or indeed any socket A motherboard to my knowledge that supports DDR2 RAM, ergo you have DDR which is not compatible with modern motherboards. Sorry.Okay thank you for your help on this. I will probably get 1 stick of ddr2 now then another when I can afford it.well of course, it depends on what are you going to use it for, innit? if it is for gaming, you should buy a new rig, simply because the specs you have can't run any of the modern games But if it is just for work or surfing, then you can buy a cheap new rig with low specs just for work Quote from: iamyourmom on October 09, 2008, 10:44:18 PM ...can't run any of the modern games... well he still can run games from a few years ago, I play Metal Gear Solid on my P3 comp with a 8MB graphics card and it runs fine.I'm trying to move to pci E but I couldn't afford the card during this upgrade. So...I bought a mobo with on board video. I went ahead and bought the parts I mentioned in my first post along with a stick of 2g ddr ram. Lol but guess what? I used to play Samurai Warriors 2 no Lag on my pc before[ even though Koei specs say my pc wouldn't work at all] now that I upgraded its slow motion lag on all games.. ^_^;; except VTM:B so far is the 7050nforce chip really old?Most onboard vid chips are not POWERFUL enough for decent gaming... |
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