dell optiplex gx260

some one help · Dec 22, 2013

Q.i have a dell optiplex gx 260 with intel peteam 4 and 2 gigs of ram it has a standard vga graphics adapter in it what would be the best card i could add to this i dont do alot of gameing but watching videos and movies realy sucks ass and what would be the big card i could use i use windows 7

MC_K7 · Dec 22, 2013

some one help :

By the way, it's a Pentium-4, not "peteam 4".

But more seriously I'm not sure the problem is the video card. This is a very old computer and a very old CPU so I'm not sure I would invest money upgrading it, the bottleneck could be the CPU. But first you could start by telling us what video card you're currently using, because "standard vga graphics adapter" is not a video card model. This is usually what Device Manager says when there's no driver installed so maybe that's your problem. Maybe you simply forgot to install the driver for your video card which is why it sucks ass for anything graphics related.

some one help · Dec 22, 2013

will i got this at a yard sale and put windows 7 on it but now that said some thing about i have looked there is no card in it lol jokes on me so then what would be best

MC_K7 · Dec 23, 2013

some one help :

Are you sure there's no video card in there? Did you open the case and take a look inside? So the AGP slot is actually empty?

In any case I looked at the specs for this computer and it came with either a dedicated ATI Radeon 7500 or will use Intel Integrated 845G. So even if you don't have the Radeon 7500, you could use the integrated Intel instead. As I said before, if you look in Device Manager and it says "Standard VGA adapter" for your video card, it means the driver is not installed. Dell will not provide drivers for Windows 7 for this system. But you can easily get the driver for Win7 either from the ATI (now AMD) website or from the Intel website (depending on which card you have).

But I'm surprised Windows 7 didn't detect the card and automatically installed the drivers during installation. Since these are old cards it should have the drivers in its database. But in any case, this is not a problem, you can download and install the driver manually.

some one help · Dec 23, 2013

MC_K7 :

some one help :

Are you sure there's no video card in there? Did you open the case and take a look inside? So the AGP slot is actually empty?

In any case I looked at the specs for this computer and it came with either a dedicated ATI Radeon 7500 or will use Intel Integrated 845G. So even if you don't have the Radeon 7500, you could use the integrated Intel instead. As I said before, if you look in Device Manager and it says "Standard VGA adapter" for your video card, it means the driver is not installed. Dell will not provide drivers for Windows 7 for this system. But you can easily get the driver for Win7 either from the ATI (now AMD) website or from the Intel website (depending on which card you have).

But I'm surprised Windows 7 didn't detect the card and automatically installed the drivers during installation. Since these are old cards it should have the drivers in its database. But in any case, this is not a problem, you can download and install the driver manually.

some one help · Dec 23, 2013

u are right no card so if i get a used one will it update automatically or will i have to get the driver myself

MC_K7 · Dec 23, 2013

You might not need to buy a used one. It appears to me that your integrated card driver might not be installed.

Can you tell me what you see when you go to Device Manager, under Display Adapters?

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