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Graphics card - spec

Just wondering what you would use it for. Do you play any games or is it for hd video? It's a shame you don't have enough posts to get into the members market. You can get a lot more second hand for £50 than you can buying new.
 
Yea...you wouldn't be able to get a new gaming graphic card with a budget of £50, 2nd hand you might be able to get a 4850 or something. If gaming is not your thing and you only using it as a HTPC or general usable, let us know and we can then recommend you a few.
 
I basically want to take the load off my RAM. But it will be used for hooking my pc up to a HD tv to watch HD programmes. Wouldn't be used for gaming, well not really, I sometimes play football manager, but that's not graphics intense.

How many posts to get into the members market?

Thanks!
 
You need 250 posts to get in there (I'm almost there myself :p). I think the 5450 should do you nicely. But I believe you need to enable the hardware acceleration in order to transfer bunden of the HD contents from the CPU on to the GPU/graphic card instead.
 
Cheers for the help lads. Just bought the 5450.

Do I just clip it onto my motherboard then? Sorry, never installed a video card before!

Thanks again.
 
Yes its just clip in and the load on the drivers, but you may have to go into the bios to disable your onboard graphics.
 
cuda-uk said:
but you may have to go into the bios to disable your onboard graphics.
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I thought that's done in device manager in window...? I can't remember too well since I did it a long time ago. From what I remember, it was something likeafter getting into windows, disable the onboard graphic in device manager then the screen with go black, then unplugged the VGA cable from the motherboard's VGA port and the plug the VGA cable onto the VGA port of the graphic card the the screen comes back on or something like that.

Not 100% sure though as I said I done this a long time ago.
 
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