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24th November 2007, 04:32 PM
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Hey my brother currently has a dell dimension 3100 and im struglying to find a graphics card for him as he likes to play games,
if you could get back to me that would be grate
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24th November 2007, 04:39 PM
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Price range please.
And what kind of games does he like to play? High end games?
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24th November 2007, 04:39 PM
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Is the graphics bus AGP or PCI Express?
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24th November 2007, 04:51 PM
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any price.
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24th November 2007, 04:53 PM
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You haven't answered josh's question.
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24th November 2007, 09:56 PM
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Sorry PCI
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24th November 2007, 10:08 PM
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Well if it's PCI-E I would reccomend an ATi HD 2600. The performance is not the best of the best, but it performs and plays most games on high settings with ease. The main reason I suggested it though is because it will have very little effect on the power supply, so you do not have to worry about the power supply not being powerful enough to run this card. The card consumes about 30W of power, and is powered from the bus alone (no nasty PCI-E cables trailing everywhere in the computer, and no heavy power consumption) Depending on which model you get (I reccomend the GDDR4 version) they are priced between about £50-£100.
Hope this helps.
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26th November 2007, 10:46 AM
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Is it compatable with the dell dimension 3100?
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26th November 2007, 03:21 PM
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Well if what you say the graphics bus being PCI Express, unless you mean just ordinary PCI, it will work with no problems. If the graphics bus is just the ordinary PCI with 33MHZ bus speed, then the best graphics card you're looking at is most probably a nVIDIA GeForce 5700, which is not very good nowadays and will struggle to play the latest games, as they discontinued the production of new graphics cards on the ordinary PCI bus a couple of years ago. But I doubt it will be this. Do NOT get mixed up between PCI and PCI Express, they are completely different.
If your graphics bus is AGP, then the best graphics card you could get is probably an ATi X1950 or a nVIDIA GeForce 7950, both priced at about £100, but you may need to revise the wattage of your power supply for these graphics cards, I would reccomend at least a 500W power supply for these graphics cards.
Make sure you check your graphics bus before purchasing any graphics card because I will not be to blame if you purchase a graphics card with the wrong bus type to your motherboard.
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"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters" - Bill Gates
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26th November 2007, 03:40 PM
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Please could you post some screenshots of your motherboard - or even better tell us your motherboard make and model - this way we can determine the best card for you.
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