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Installing graphics card?
Jazzy_B
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I've just bought one of the cheapo setups from Dell with onboard graphics. I want to get a reasonable PCI card for it, for the kid's games. All I want to know is if it put in in the same way as a networking card, which I managed to do, or do I have to do anything first like uninstalling onboard graphics. Is there anything more complicated that I need to be aware of.
I know this is probably a stupid question to lot of you, but I'd like to sort it myself. Thanks for any help any of you can offer.
I know this is probably a stupid question to lot of you, but I'd like to sort it myself. Thanks for any help any of you can offer.
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Jazzy_B wrote:I've just bought one of the cheapo setups from Dell with onboard graphics. I want to get a reasonable PCI card for it, for the kid's games. All I want to know is if it put in in the same way as a networking card, which I managed to do, or do I have to do anything first like uninstalling onboard graphics. Is there anything more complicated that I need to be aware of.
I know this is probably a stupid question to lot of you, but I'd like to sort it myself. Thanks for any help any of you can offer.
i installed a 128PCI card in my dell.
to anwer your question, yes it is the same as a networking card.
what you will need to do then is disable your existing graphics card through system properties.
It is really simple.Nick.
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I have on order a Nvida PCI FX5200 (128mb) card. There isn't much choice these days with pci cards as they are mainly AGP and the new pci express or pci-e.
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