Heh.
*borrows friend's soon to be purchased 7800GTX, hits Uranium*
Buying a New Video Card...
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Okay, I don't wanna start a new thread so I'll post my own video-card woes for all to see here.
For what I play, my system's good enough (but more power is never a bad thing). I got a gig of RAM, a Pentium 4, and with 128mb ov shared video memory, I can buy a nVidia 6600. This set-up handles Call of Duty, Tribes and Half-Life 2 I start to see a drop in framerate. This is all good and adequate right now but down the line... Oh, woops, I got PCI Express too, for the record.
Anyway, my gripe is: why are so few video cards made for 128MB of video memory for PCI Express? I understand that 256 is better and therefore preferred but it seems like I can find better 256/AGP then PCI Express/128 and that EVERYTHING new and powerful is basically 256/PCI Express -- look at the nVidia 7800's that don't support AGP anymore.
Anyway, I'm still fairly newbish with computers so pardon the ignorance if this sounds dumb: is there anyway to upgrade my computer to 256MB of video memory?
edit: If the answer amounts to "buy a new computer" my only saving grace is I have plenty of disposable income.
For what I play, my system's good enough (but more power is never a bad thing). I got a gig of RAM, a Pentium 4, and with 128mb ov shared video memory, I can buy a nVidia 6600. This set-up handles Call of Duty, Tribes and Half-Life 2 I start to see a drop in framerate. This is all good and adequate right now but down the line... Oh, woops, I got PCI Express too, for the record.
Anyway, my gripe is: why are so few video cards made for 128MB of video memory for PCI Express? I understand that 256 is better and therefore preferred but it seems like I can find better 256/AGP then PCI Express/128 and that EVERYTHING new and powerful is basically 256/PCI Express -- look at the nVidia 7800's that don't support AGP anymore.
Anyway, I'm still fairly newbish with computers so pardon the ignorance if this sounds dumb: is there anyway to upgrade my computer to 256MB of video memory?
edit: If the answer amounts to "buy a new computer" my only saving grace is I have plenty of disposable income.
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Uraniun235
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Video cards have onboard memory, so a 128MB vid card has 128MB of memory on the card itself. A 256MB card has 256MB of memory on the card, separate from the rest of your system, and independant of any silly "shared video memory". You can buy any card that will fit your slot.
What system do you have? What vid card do you have right now? Post your specs so we have a better idea of what's going on.
What system do you have? What vid card do you have right now? Post your specs so we have a better idea of what's going on.
What do I have? Edited and snipped meandering bullshit, added link to review of comp.Uraniun235 wrote:Video cards have onboard memory, so a 128MB vid card has 128MB of memory on the card itself. A 256MB card has 256MB of memory on the card, separate from the rest of your system, and independant of any silly "shared video memory". You can buy any card that will fit your slot.
What system do you have?
I guess that means I have a 7800 on the way with my name on it.
I plan to go to www.tigerdirect.com for it, anyone else to shop around that's reliable? Edit: Jesus fingerbanging Christ, my computer almost died on me, freezing during Homeworld 2 and outright refusing to log in, freezing constantly in the process. I restored it and amazingly kept my music, pics etc. but lost a few programs (and that's it!) Don't know if a virus hit me or if my friend trying to jack up the resolution on HW2 did it or what.