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aspirins

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Hi,

I have a pc, which is from work, but has now been kinda claimed as my own. I would love to tell you what spec it is, but i don't entirely know myself. However, it doesn't seem to run games that great, and i suspect this is due to the graphics card which is several years old. Just writing here to check if it is just the graphics card holding me back, and if there's a graphics card i could replace it with for under say £80, that would give me vast improvement, or if it's the entire computer thats holding me back, and i should save a little till after christmas and buy something new. Obviously i'd much rather stick with the current pc if its possible.

If you need details about the pc, and can tell me how to get the details. I'll do it!

Oh, and i think its AGP.


Thanks!

edit: should maybe be in graphics forum..
 
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Take a screenshot of CPUz running and post it so we know what the rest of the rig is.

I imagine you'd be looking at something along the lines of an X800/850 or perhaps a 7600GS.
 
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Lolcb said:
come up with a budget and revamp ** comp
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I'm not sure that is at all needed. All you'll need to do is buy a decent agp graphics card to get good performance from todays games. If I were you I'd try to find a second hand 6800gt or an x800 off an auction site. If you can stretch to £130 then go for a 7600gt from OcUK and watch games fly :)
 
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Dual xeons and 1.5gb of rambus, was it a server?

I doubt the mobo has agp or pci-e slots so your gonna have to overhaul it all i think
 
Zefan said:
CPU-Z screeny.
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Ah, my bad, It wasn't displaying for me until I refreshed the page. Silly Minefield...


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aspirins said:
So, computer itself is ok?
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Some games that are very CPU dependent will complain a little but most just hunger lots of 3d power so you're right in saying

aspirins said:
Buy a new graphics card and it'll run most games fine?
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:)

Definitely try to find a second hand card before searching the stores however as there is a BIG premium on AGP cards at the moment.
 
Those CPUs are still rather slow but at this point I imagine it's the GPU that's the bottleneck. Upping to a more powerful graphics card will help and it will make it such that the CPU would be the main bottleneck.
 
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