Wednesday, May 9, 2012
What kind of video card should I get?
I'm looking for a video card with at least 256 MG of video ram, that ranges between $200 - 300, and is compatible with a vista s2 (dv2310us) laptop. I plan on using it for intense graphic gaming. Suggestions...?|||upgrading a 14 inch laptop? Hate to say it, but there isn't anything you can do with that model =/ Most laptops use Mini PCI-E connectors, but most laptop vendors have custom sized gpus. If you want "Intense Gaming Graphics" you won't be getting it out of that thing. Upgrading a laptop is not like upgrading a desktop, you are pretty much limited to upgrading cpu/hdd/ram. If you wanted a gaming laptop, the only route is to usually buy a huge laptop like a 17 inch screen. A 14 inch laptop would melt or overheat since its so small from a high power gpu. I have a Gateway FX P Series gaming laptop with a 8800 GTS, and even I can't buy like any other graphics cards for it. Edit: The guy above me, obviously doesn't know the difference between desktops and laptops.|||9800 GX2
HDMI and Video Card question for gaming? 10 points?
I just got a custom built desktop with I-5 2500, GTX-460 with a an LCcd led backlight monitor. Upon build I had requested HDMI ports but all I can find is a VGA. How would the gaming graphics be affected with the use of a VGA in comparison to an HDMI, and also how could I go about getting an HDMI port setup (converter cable ? etc?)?|||It's not really a noticeable difference although I've never seen a GTX 460 without either DVI, HDMI, or Display Port connector. You've gotta have one of those in addition to a VGA port (which is rare these days)
You can get DVI->HDMI or Display Port-> DMI adapters pretty cheaply, those would provide better image quality than VGA->HDMI.|||GTX 460 contain a HDMI port and a DVI port and the usaul one VGA, to use HDMI you have to buy a hdmi cable and connect it with the monitor, and there is a big difference between them, hdmi guve better quilty image than vga but dvi port is the best one.|||VGA is a cable specifically to give what ever quality of image the video card supports but the hdmi has multi use to give HD image and sound so the vga is more powerful when it comes to image so it depends the better the graphics card the better the image on VGA|||Dude dont even worry about it your mother board probably doesnt have HDMI but your graphics card has a mini HDMI port.|||true... You do get VGA to HDMI converters i know this because i have one
You can get DVI->HDMI or Display Port-> DMI adapters pretty cheaply, those would provide better image quality than VGA->HDMI.|||GTX 460 contain a HDMI port and a DVI port and the usaul one VGA, to use HDMI you have to buy a hdmi cable and connect it with the monitor, and there is a big difference between them, hdmi guve better quilty image than vga but dvi port is the best one.|||VGA is a cable specifically to give what ever quality of image the video card supports but the hdmi has multi use to give HD image and sound so the vga is more powerful when it comes to image so it depends the better the graphics card the better the image on VGA|||Dude dont even worry about it your mother board probably doesnt have HDMI but your graphics card has a mini HDMI port.|||true... You do get VGA to HDMI converters i know this because i have one
Is having dual video cards better than having a single one?
I am looking into buying a gaming PC, and I am wondering whether I should buy one with one nVidia 8800GTS (320 MB) or the other that has two nVidia 8500 GT (512 MB).
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3272646&CatId=114
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3004972&body=MAIN
Those are the links to both the computers. Thanks for your help.|||Well usually you can only have one. The computer would usually reject the other. However ATI has a line of cards called crossfire. If you have two crossfire cards installed then the system will take advantage of both cards to help boost the graphics. So I would recommend you get some crossfires if you want multiple cards.|||in this case, the one 8800gts will still kill the two 8500gts.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3272646&CatId=114
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3004972&body=MAIN
Those are the links to both the computers. Thanks for your help.|||Well usually you can only have one. The computer would usually reject the other. However ATI has a line of cards called crossfire. If you have two crossfire cards installed then the system will take advantage of both cards to help boost the graphics. So I would recommend you get some crossfires if you want multiple cards.|||in this case, the one 8800gts will still kill the two 8500gts.
Im really confused about laptop video cards??!!?
hey guys,
i find that laptop video cards are really annoying, especially with the ATI HD cards. For instance with an ati hd mobility radeon 4570, is that a really good video card because its a high number? or are the 2000 series better? if so, what laptop brands sell laptops for under $1600 that come with video cards capable of running good games such as fallout 3 on med-high quality?
thanks|||Laptops aren't designed for gaming!|||For gaming lap tops look here: http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/lapt…
Hope this helps
i find that laptop video cards are really annoying, especially with the ATI HD cards. For instance with an ati hd mobility radeon 4570, is that a really good video card because its a high number? or are the 2000 series better? if so, what laptop brands sell laptops for under $1600 that come with video cards capable of running good games such as fallout 3 on med-high quality?
thanks|||Laptops aren't designed for gaming!|||For gaming lap tops look here: http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/lapt…
Hope this helps
Are PCI video cards out of date?
My computer doesn't have a PCIe so I'm stuck using a PCI video card. Is it still possible to get a PCI video card that will support games nicely or is there a PCIe to PCI video card adapter that would work?|||The guy who thinks PCI graphics cards isn't outdated knows nothing.
PCI has been outdated for the past 7 years.
PCI is extremely slow-- 33mHz transfer speed, 133MB/sec bandwidth. This is a horrible bottleneck-- The old PCI bus simply cannot keep a graphics processor fed with data fast enough, which means ALL PCI video cards are slow as molasses. It is Completely unacceptable for today's applications.
In contrast, the current graphics card standard, PCIExpress 16x, starts at a bandwidth of 4096MB/sec for v1.0 spec. That's 32 times faster than old PCI.
Any PCI graphics card is a complete, utter waste of money. The only reason why card makers keep making them is because there are plenty of suckers out there who don't know any better.
Save your money for a new computer if all you have are old PCI slots.|||No, they are not out of date. They are not as common or as fast as they PCIe or PCIe x16. You can check the site listed below for 67 PCI cards from various manufactures. I am sure that if you look on the internet you can find even more. Just because a brick and mortar store does not carry it, does not mean that it is not available. Stores can not carry every option of every item, they do not have the room.|||pci's are outdated. its hard to find them in normal stores and i dont think video card companies support it anymore just like agp. an adapter would really kill your performance value. pcie is i think 16x faster. adapter would block the performance substancially. and also you wouldn't be able to play very recent games. maybe games from about 2 years ago would do|||What computer do you have? If it's only got PCI then it's very old and nothing new will run on it. It most likely has an AGP slot - I had a 500MB AGP card that just about managed Left for Dead. You had to wait a bit for the data to load onto the card but after that it was fine.|||PCI graphics are extremely dated, amigo. They were killed off by AGP graphics card at the turn of the century. There is no PCI graphics card today that will offer any sort of acceptable performance for any sort of game created in the last 8 to 10 years.|||yes Ofourse
PIC - Express is the latest
Even that will go out of date soon.
Intel's new Integrated Processor called Larabeee.
Check this link
http://infosyndrome.blogspot.com/2009/06…|||PCI cards are still sold but not very powerful and won't support most of the newer games out. PCI was outdated when AGP came out and AGP is even outdated now.|||Or you could get a better computer.
PCI has been outdated for the past 7 years.
PCI is extremely slow-- 33mHz transfer speed, 133MB/sec bandwidth. This is a horrible bottleneck-- The old PCI bus simply cannot keep a graphics processor fed with data fast enough, which means ALL PCI video cards are slow as molasses. It is Completely unacceptable for today's applications.
In contrast, the current graphics card standard, PCIExpress 16x, starts at a bandwidth of 4096MB/sec for v1.0 spec. That's 32 times faster than old PCI.
Any PCI graphics card is a complete, utter waste of money. The only reason why card makers keep making them is because there are plenty of suckers out there who don't know any better.
Save your money for a new computer if all you have are old PCI slots.|||No, they are not out of date. They are not as common or as fast as they PCIe or PCIe x16. You can check the site listed below for 67 PCI cards from various manufactures. I am sure that if you look on the internet you can find even more. Just because a brick and mortar store does not carry it, does not mean that it is not available. Stores can not carry every option of every item, they do not have the room.|||pci's are outdated. its hard to find them in normal stores and i dont think video card companies support it anymore just like agp. an adapter would really kill your performance value. pcie is i think 16x faster. adapter would block the performance substancially. and also you wouldn't be able to play very recent games. maybe games from about 2 years ago would do|||What computer do you have? If it's only got PCI then it's very old and nothing new will run on it. It most likely has an AGP slot - I had a 500MB AGP card that just about managed Left for Dead. You had to wait a bit for the data to load onto the card but after that it was fine.|||PCI graphics are extremely dated, amigo. They were killed off by AGP graphics card at the turn of the century. There is no PCI graphics card today that will offer any sort of acceptable performance for any sort of game created in the last 8 to 10 years.|||yes Ofourse
PIC - Express is the latest
Even that will go out of date soon.
Intel's new Integrated Processor called Larabeee.
Check this link
http://infosyndrome.blogspot.com/2009/06…|||PCI cards are still sold but not very powerful and won't support most of the newer games out. PCI was outdated when AGP came out and AGP is even outdated now.|||Or you could get a better computer.
External video cards for laptops?
I have a Toshiba Satellite A300-1J1 Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 2.0GHz / 3072MB with Mobile Intel(R) 965 chipset family (vista).
I would like to you my laptop for gaming but dont have a decent enough video card or the know how to take apart my laptop and install the new hardware.
Ive been looking around the internet for a while and have found what im looking for BUT i cannot find anywhere that sells the item
ASUS XGstation
Link=http://www.asus.com/news_show.asp…
If anyone could help me find something to the obove or a guide to changing video cards that would be excellent|||Your laptop (like most all laptops) doesnt have an interchagable video board in it in the first place. Laptops in general arent designed for gaming. My guess would be that the ASUS XGstation mite enhance the gaming video but if your pc doesnt have what it needs to play in the first place, all the addons in the world aint gonna make it work.|||They are all on paper for now. Asus has not produced the XGstation yet.
There is no changing video cards, and no external video cards for your laptop as of now.|||It might improve it abit but not a huge difference exactly. Thats a really good idea though, external video cards lol
I would like to you my laptop for gaming but dont have a decent enough video card or the know how to take apart my laptop and install the new hardware.
Ive been looking around the internet for a while and have found what im looking for BUT i cannot find anywhere that sells the item
ASUS XGstation
Link=http://www.asus.com/news_show.asp…
If anyone could help me find something to the obove or a guide to changing video cards that would be excellent|||Your laptop (like most all laptops) doesnt have an interchagable video board in it in the first place. Laptops in general arent designed for gaming. My guess would be that the ASUS XGstation mite enhance the gaming video but if your pc doesnt have what it needs to play in the first place, all the addons in the world aint gonna make it work.|||They are all on paper for now. Asus has not produced the XGstation yet.
There is no changing video cards, and no external video cards for your laptop as of now.|||It might improve it abit but not a huge difference exactly. Thats a really good idea though, external video cards lol
I'm going to build a gaming computer and need help with what Video Card to get.?
I'm running on a budget I want to get a AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor. I saw someone say that a ASUS ENGTX560 TI DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card will not work well. So could you give me a link on newegg to a good Video Card that will run on AMD. I'm trying to build a good gaming computer for games like Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3.|||I agree.... the Phenom II X6 1090T is a nice processor, but overall has weaker gaming performance than the Phenom II X4 970.
And unfortunately for AMD, nothing they have currently can compare with Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors. Even the $120 Core i3 2100 manages to edge both the aforementioned AMD processors, while the Core i5 2500K leaves them in the dust.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-s…
As for the person who told you a GTX 560Ti wouldn't work well, they were incorrect. That's a common misconception (that Nvidia cards somehow have problems with AMD CPUs - they don't). What is true - if you've got a Crossfire motherboard then going with an Nvidia card defeats the purpose, since you can't upgrade with a 2nd card later. Same thing for putting an AMD card in an SLI motherboard. But for any single-card configuration, whether you have an AMD or Nvidia card doesn't matter, just the raw performance.
The closest equivalent to the GTX 560Ti is the Radeon HD 6950.
http://www.techspot.com/review/359-nvidi…|||well its true going with a 4 core cpu will save you some cash, but the 1090t is defiantlly a better cpu. But if that system you have is within your budget, and theres really no better videocard to upgrade to that isnt stupid expensive, may as well stick with the 6core
XFX Radeon HD 6950 of a gtx 560 are both pretty close, id go with a 6950, but either card will work fine.|||6 cores not necessary....i suggest u to bu AMD Phenom ii X4 Black Edition 3.4ghz...
going for gaming than why compromise get 1 GB graphic card....minimum 8gb ram
get atleast minimum 600W PSU.etc etc.
And unfortunately for AMD, nothing they have currently can compare with Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors. Even the $120 Core i3 2100 manages to edge both the aforementioned AMD processors, while the Core i5 2500K leaves them in the dust.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-s…
As for the person who told you a GTX 560Ti wouldn't work well, they were incorrect. That's a common misconception (that Nvidia cards somehow have problems with AMD CPUs - they don't). What is true - if you've got a Crossfire motherboard then going with an Nvidia card defeats the purpose, since you can't upgrade with a 2nd card later. Same thing for putting an AMD card in an SLI motherboard. But for any single-card configuration, whether you have an AMD or Nvidia card doesn't matter, just the raw performance.
The closest equivalent to the GTX 560Ti is the Radeon HD 6950.
http://www.techspot.com/review/359-nvidi…|||well its true going with a 4 core cpu will save you some cash, but the 1090t is defiantlly a better cpu. But if that system you have is within your budget, and theres really no better videocard to upgrade to that isnt stupid expensive, may as well stick with the 6core
XFX Radeon HD 6950 of a gtx 560 are both pretty close, id go with a 6950, but either card will work fine.|||6 cores not necessary....i suggest u to bu AMD Phenom ii X4 Black Edition 3.4ghz...
going for gaming than why compromise get 1 GB graphic card....minimum 8gb ram
get atleast minimum 600W PSU.etc etc.
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