New Graphics Card??

[Patchy]

Hey well I need a new graphics card...my motherboard has a built in one but I think its rubbish its a NVDIA GeForce 6150SE

is this good and if it isnt could u reccomend a better NVDIA card.


thanks

[Aηdy]

PCI? AGP? PCI-E?

Need to know what it's plugging in to first!

Also what's your budget?

[Patchy]

right my budget is about up to £100

PCI-Expressx16

[Aηdy]

If you can push your budget a bit then this (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/127284) is a pretty awesome card. If not then something like this (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/133670) will still be pretty amazing.

[Patchy]

cool thanks btw see the one I got is it any good?

[Aηdy]

If its built in then its not going to be very good to be honest.

[Octo22]

If its built in then its not going to be very good to be honest.

Depends, I'm not familiar with Nvidia (so useless here because I'm a Radeon fan)

But my computer came with Radeons top of the line in it, I was buying a new computer just to get a HD graphics card, but it happened to come with the one I was eyeing!

[Patchy]

If its built in then its not going to be very good to be honest.

thanks I think it was pretty crap

Depends, I'm not familiar with Nvidia (so useless here because I'm a Radeon fan)

But my computer came with Radeons top of the line in it, I was buying a new computer just to get a HD graphics card, but it happened to come with the one I was eyeing!

Cool yeah U aint a radeons fan just coz I've always had nvidia.

[Aηdy]

I like both ATI and nVidia tbh, used both, both just as good lol.

[Octo22]

I like both ATI and nVidia tbh, used both, both just as good lol.

Agreed, never noticed a difference. ATI just sounded cooler :P

[Aηdy]

I prefer the sond of "GeForce" sounds almighty!

[Joe3140]

Depends, I'm not familiar with Nvidia (so useless here because I'm a Radeon fan)

But my computer came with Radeons top of the line in it, I was buying a new computer just to get a HD graphics card, but it happened to come with the one I was eyeing!

I'm 99% sure that your misunderstanding the meaning of "built in". What I think you are talking about is a graphics card that came with your computer, like most computers do. The "built in" everyone else is referring to is a gpu thats physically on the motherboard, these are most deffinently lower quality.

[Octo22]

I'm 99% sure that your misunderstanding the meaning of "built in". What I think you are talking about is a graphics card that came with your computer, like most computers do. The "built in" everyone else is referring to is a gpu thats physically on the motherboard, these are most deffinently lower quality.

Ah, sorrry. I was mixing up "built-in" with "came installed"

It's not part of the motherboard, but it did come in my computer :P


I've never seen the technology till recently where you can have 2 video cards in a computer, I'm gonna buy another ATI for sheer awesomeness :P

[0=]

Due to driver issues your money is better spent on a better single card.

[Patchy]

If you can push your budget a bit then this (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/127284) is a pretty awesome card. If not then something like this (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/133670) will still be pretty amazing.

Hey thanks btw it says its ddr3 when I was making my pc I had to buy ddr2 ram so does that mean I need to buy a ddr2 graphics card for it to fit?

[0=]

That was a typo. It's referring to the GDDR3 that's on the card.

[Patchy]

ah kk

[Aηdy]

I'm 99% sure that your misunderstanding the meaning of "built in". What I think you are talking about is a graphics card that came with your computer, like most computers do. The "built in" everyone else is referring to is a gpu thats physically on the motherboard, these are most deffinently lower quality.

By built in he means the graphics are built on to the motherboard.

Ah, sorrry. I was mixing up "built-in" with "came installed"

It's not part of the motherboard, but it did come in my computer :P


I've never seen the technology till recently where you can have 2 video cards in a computer, I'm gonna buy another ATI for sheer awesomeness :P

An SLI setup is only needed for extreme graphics, a decent, single graphics card will me more than enough.

Hey thanks btw it says its ddr3 when I was making my pc I had to buy ddr2 ram so does that mean I need to buy a ddr2 graphics card for it to fit?

It just means that the video memory on the graphics card is DDR3, it doesn't affect your RAM.

[Patchy]

ah ok ty phew starting to get somewhere with this pc :)

[Octo22]

An SLI setup is only needed for extreme graphics, a decent, single graphics card will me more than enough.


Well I want extreme :P

[0=]

In some applications SLI degrades performance. In many it only provides a couple FPS, and in a few it provides a real boost. It all depends on how well the drivers are written. A great single overclocked card will beat two inferior cards in SLI.

[Aηdy]

In some applications SLI degrades performance. In many it only provides a couple FPS, and in a few it provides a real boost. It all depends on how well the drivers are written. A great single overclocked card will beat two inferior cards in SLI.

That's right.

And when I say extreme graphics I mean EXTREME, if you were doing some serious 3D modeling or something.