NVidia Geforce 9300 GE replacement

Miguel Inguito · Oct 9, 2014

I have a HP PC that is almost 6 years old and my graphics card (Geforce 9300 GE) is slowly dying. I was wondering what would be a better replacement for it that is cheap

Darkbreeze · Oct 9, 2014

Since just about anything is an upgrade for that card, no offense intended, this would be a nice replacement and probably perform about a ten times better. Your card has a passmark score of 103 while the R7 240 has a score of 934. No comparison and fairly cheap. If you're looking for something even lower end, let me know.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 240 2GB Video Card ($52.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $52.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-09 00:35 EDT-0400

Miguel Inguito · Oct 9, 2014

Will my computer be able to run it? G9300 has 2 slots, the one you gave me has 3.

Darkbreeze · Oct 9, 2014

The 9300 GE is a X16 PCIe card. So is the R7 240. They will both run in any PCIe X16 slot. I guess it depends on your motherboard though. If your motherboard has a x16 slot, which it should if that card is in there, it should be fine.

Miguel Inguito · Oct 9, 2014

Can you give me another option like the same as you linked but maybe a little but cheaper or a bit thr same price

Darkbreeze · Oct 9, 2014

That's pretty much the bottom of the barrel for the AMD cards, there is a lower tiered NVidia card, the 720, but it's about the same price and I wouldn't recommend paying the same price for a crappier card. All modern cards use the X16 slot in some form whether it's 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0. Your card is 1.0 and the R7 240 is 3.0 but it is backwards compatible and will just run at the slower 1.0 speed. Here is the other card if you want to go that route but it really doesn't make much sense. You would get half the performance and only save about six bucks.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: PNY GeForce GT 720 1GB Video Card ($47.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $47.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-09 01:00 EDT-0400

Miguel Inguito · Oct 9, 2014

Do you know where to download the driver for the XFX Radeon R7 240? (The first one you linked)

Darkbreeze · Oct 9, 2014

All modern AMD based GPUs use some form of the Radeon drivers located on AMD's website. Most cards, including that one, will use the Catalyst control center version 14.4 or the recently released 14.9. I recommend using the 14.4 as the 14.9 is still very new and some users are reporting issues with it. A beta version that has been patched to resolve some issues with the 14.9 version has already been released (14.9.1) but I'd still use the 14.4 drivers. If you have an older version of Windows like XP it may be a different version of the catalyst drivers but you can choose your driver version here:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Miguel Inguito · Oct 9, 2014

Hey! When I boot on Normal Mode, the screen is black but when I boot onto Safe Mode, its all working fine.

I have tried
-Using the GURUuninstall driver cleaning
-system repair

Any suggestions?

Darkbreeze · Oct 9, 2014

That means it's a driver issue. Safe mode uses windows native drivers which are minimal in nature. The normal installed drivers are not loaded in safe mode.

Miguel Inguito · Oct 9, 2014

Do you know a way to fix it?

Darkbreeze · Oct 9, 2014

Are we still talking about the 9300 GE or did you get a different card?

Miguel Inguito · Oct 9, 2014

Still talking about the G9300. It was working fine, I really don't know what I did.

Darkbreeze · Oct 10, 2014

What is you OS version and is it 32 or 64 bit?

Miguel Inguito · Oct 10, 2014

Darkbreeze :

It is 64bit Windows 7 Ultimate

Darkbreeze · Oct 10, 2014

Download the Display driver uninstaller here:

http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/

Download the Nvidia driver here:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/confirmation.php?url=/Windows/340.52/340.52-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql.exe&lang=us&type=GeForce

Run the display driver uninstaller choosing the Nvidia option and allow the safe mode reboot. When the process is complete install the driver package you downloaded and reboot.

Miguel Inguito · Oct 10, 2014

The first graphics card you put (Radeon R7 240 XFX) it has 2 editions. Will both editions work on my computer?

This is the case one. http://m.ncix.com/products/sku/90995

It seems like this one is too big? Im worried about this part. Its not like thr one you showed me
http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/14-150-699-TS?$S300W$

Darkbreeze · Oct 10, 2014

You would need to measure the distance in your case and compare it to the specs for each card. I have no idea what will or will not fit in your case. I don't even know what model of HP computer you have much less anything about the specs for the case. What is the model number of your computer?

Miguel Inguito · Oct 10, 2014

Darkbreeze :

HP Pavilion Media Center m8525f PC
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6700 4096MB 1000GB

Darkbreeze · Oct 10, 2014

According to HP, both those cards will fit. All info I can find on your system says it will take up to a 9" card and both of those are well below that but you might still want to measure from where your current card touches the case to the other end of it where any obstructions might be. Also consider that if the back of any drive is in the way it may be able to be moved to another bay but that probably isn't necessary with either of those cards.

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