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I have an HP pavillion with this motherboard: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Joshua-H-JOSHUA-H61-uATX-1-00-Motherboard-696233-001-System-Board-TESTED-/181381709807 , (currently) 8 gigs of ram, and a 3.00 GHZ intel i5 CPU.
In the probably not so near future, I'm interested in installing a graphics card (right now it's running on intel integrated graphics and can't even handle google maps.......), and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I'm not looking for anything too impressive, but I would like something that is at the very least capable of basic functions without crashing (seriously, a ******* map emulator is causing crashes?). Some basic gaming ability would be nice, but I'm not sure my PC has the specs for that, if someone can enlighten me in that area as well, it would be highly appreciated. I should also mention that I've never installed a graphics card before. I've replaced a cpu and upgraded ram in two older PCs, but never messed with graphics. If there's anything I should be aware of, or if it's more trouble than it's worth, could you give me a heads up?
Lastly, I'm not really looking for anything above $300 (and it was like $50, until I did a search and realized that a graphics card isn't some cheap chip).
Any advice is well appreciated.
My specs are below.
SPECS :
Operating System : Windows 8 (x64) (build 9200)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)
Installed: 4/27/2013 9:56:17 PM
Boot Mode: UEFI with successful Secure Boot
System Model : Hewlett-Packard p7-1423w
System Serial Number: MXX2420CQM
Asset Tag: MXX2420CQM
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor : 3.00 gigahertz Intel Core i5-3330
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
6144 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded
Main Circuit Board : Board: Foxconn 2ADA 1.00
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
UEFI: AMI 8.08 09/14/2012
Drives : 998.62 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
735.43 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device [Optical drive]
hp CDDVDW SH-216BB [Optical drive]
Generic- Compact Flash USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Generic- MS/MS-Pro USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Generic- SD/MMC USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
Generic- SM/xD-Picture USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
WDC WD10EZEX-60ZF5A0 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCC1S0448669, rev 80.00A80, SMART Status: Healthy
Memory Modules : 8076 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 8192 MB (serial number 93AA85CD)
Local Drive Volumes : c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 977.84 GB 732.87 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 20.78 GB 2.56 GB free *OS installed on C
In the probably not so near future, I'm interested in installing a graphics card (right now it's running on intel integrated graphics and can't even handle google maps.......), and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I'm not looking for anything too impressive, but I would like something that is at the very least capable of basic functions without crashing (seriously, a ******* map emulator is causing crashes?). Some basic gaming ability would be nice, but I'm not sure my PC has the specs for that, if someone can enlighten me in that area as well, it would be highly appreciated. I should also mention that I've never installed a graphics card before. I've replaced a cpu and upgraded ram in two older PCs, but never messed with graphics. If there's anything I should be aware of, or if it's more trouble than it's worth, could you give me a heads up?
Lastly, I'm not really looking for anything above $300 (and it was like $50, until I did a search and realized that a graphics card isn't some cheap chip).
Any advice is well appreciated.
My specs are below.
SPECS :
Operating System : Windows 8 (x64) (build 9200)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)
Installed: 4/27/2013 9:56:17 PM
Boot Mode: UEFI with successful Secure Boot
System Model : Hewlett-Packard p7-1423w
System Serial Number: MXX2420CQM
Asset Tag: MXX2420CQM
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor : 3.00 gigahertz Intel Core i5-3330
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
6144 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded
Main Circuit Board : Board: Foxconn 2ADA 1.00
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
UEFI: AMI 8.08 09/14/2012
Drives : 998.62 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
735.43 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device [Optical drive]
hp CDDVDW SH-216BB [Optical drive]
Generic- Compact Flash USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Generic- MS/MS-Pro USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Generic- SD/MMC USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
Generic- SM/xD-Picture USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
WDC WD10EZEX-60ZF5A0 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCC1S0448669, rev 80.00A80, SMART Status: Healthy
Memory Modules : 8076 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 8192 MB (serial number 93AA85CD)
Local Drive Volumes : c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 977.84 GB 732.87 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 20.78 GB 2.56 GB free *OS installed on C
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