Hi folks,

so, I've bought a new graphics card  ( http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4254#sp ) and I'm gonna install it, probably tonight or next month  lol.
The guy at the shop had a quick LOOK at my MB specs and said ok.

Till now I have only an on-borad graphics chip.

Two things come to mind now:

1. Yesterday I went into the BIOS and had a look under the "advanced" tab. The entry "video memory" ...is greyed out!
I assume that this will no longer be the case after I've inserted the new card and that I'll then be ABLE to disable the onboard chip in the BIOS.

2. Will Ubuntu 11.04 auto-install the driver after that? The card came with a CD that says WIndows Xp, Vista blahblah...

Thanks for any tips folks.



  just seen that the card specs say "PCIe 2.0" ...will this work with my normal PCIe slot (see attachment)?

[year+ old attachment deleted by admin]If your system was running a GeForce say 6150SE or any other flavor of integrated GPU that is nVidia and you upgrade to this card, Ubuntu will 99.999% of the time be HAPPY since it will use same driver. However if you have say Intel Graphics 945 Extreme etc and then pop in a nVidia graphics card I have seen some occasions where you get a black screen or messed up display. Ubuntu has gotten better with HARDWARE changes, but it can still run into issues.

As long as your motherboard has the full length PCIe slot closest to the CPU your all set. If your lacking this PCIe 16x slot the largest PCIe slot for normal motherboards then you wont be able to use this video card. A quick look inside computer will confirm this as long as you dont get confused between PCIe and AGP. Guessing your motherboard is modern to have PCIe vs older AGP slot. Quote from: sandra on July 26, 2012, 06:02:42 AM

just seen that the card specs say "PCIe 2.0" ...will this work with my normal PCIe slot (see attachment)?