HELP!! Video Card Recommendation.

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Nvidia 5700LE

"ByteGuy" <byteguy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> My brother upgraded his computer with a PC Chips M-960G SIS661FX
> motherboard, a Celeron D 2.66 CPU, 1GB of memory. Only problem was the
> shitty on-board video, it's so cheap that it won't play his Links LS
> 2000 game, even at 64MB ram. This new m/b won't accomodate the old
> video card, and would like recommendations on a decent video card for
> that motherboard. I've noticed that there are video cards with 2
> segments for connection and 3 segmented cards as well, so I'm at a
> lost on video cards!! He needs a mid range gaming card, priced on the
> low side.
> Thanks for your help!!!

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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:40:55 GMT, ByteGuy <byteguy@hotmail.com> wrote:

>PC Chips M-960G

Radeon 9550 128bit
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Pro [...] 6814131243

regards

Dud
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It has 8x agp.

"DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message
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> First he needs to check his motherboard's documentation and see if he has
an
> AGP slot on the board for a modern video card. Let us know. Otherwise he
> will be stuck with a slow PCI card.
>
> --
> DaveW
>
>
>
> "ByteGuy" <byteguy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> newstkg61tcou2uvmkf1ltt7og022ojnmv1f7@4ax.com...
> > Hi,
> > My brother upgraded his computer with a PC Chips M-960G SIS661FX
> > motherboard, a Celeron D 2.66 CPU, 1GB of memory. Only problem was the
> > shitty on-board video, it's so cheap that it won't play his Links LS
> > 2000 game, even at 64MB ram. This new m/b won't accomodate the old
> > video card, and would like recommendations on a decent video card for
> > that motherboard. I've noticed that there are video cards with 2
> > segments for connection and 3 segmented cards as well, so I'm at a
> > lost on video cards!! He needs a mid range gaming card, priced on the
> > low side.
> > Thanks for your help!!!
>
>

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Sir, please consider this card:
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Pro [...] 6814145078

use auto notify these are a great card for the money.

"ByteGuy" <byteguy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> doS is correct, it is a AGP slot!! But, looking at the video cards
> that say they are AGP, many have 3 sections of slot connections. For
> example, on ebay both 2 section and 3 section are advertised as AGP
> for the Radeon 9550.
>
> Can someone, please, check out the motherboard on newegg and tell me
> if my brother needs a 2 section or 3 section AGP card.
>
> I know I'm asking for alot, but I want to try and help him out as he's
> coming over to my house to often to play Links 2K, and my wife is
> getting pissed. He's alone and I'm his only contact with the family!
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:55:55 -0700, "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote:
>
> >First he needs to check his motherboard's documentation and see if he has
an
> >AGP slot on the board for a modern video card. Let us know. Otherwise
he
> >will be stuck with a slow PCI card.
>