I end up being forced to use a PCIe 1.x card, which is the most powerful I can get? I checked nvidia and ATI websites but its very hard to find the details on the PCIe version numbers for each family of cards. Or if anyone knows of a very powerful card...

the help. Do you think the GTX 260 is enough or should I upgrade to a more powerful card? Is there a better card out there that will give me better performance? thanks the GTX 260 is an excellent card here's tom's most updated list for best cards...

Case fans [*]1 Optical drive [*]1 PCIe expansion card Currently I have a budget 450W power supply that is just not going to take a more powerful graphics card. See the related thread for a discussion about which power supply is best. I'd really...

PC2700 DVD drive 2 Hard drives Network card Floppy drive If I need more power then I could disconnect one of my hard-drives no problem. So what AGP card is the most powerful I could get for this system? Don't bother mentioning getting a new PSU...

a 5850 or 5870? i just got this back in july.. are there any games that support quadfire? The more graphics cards you have, the more you lose per card. Two 4870x2's should be awesome but don't think of them as running like four 4870's would, it is closer...

graphics card also came with adapters that could take the normal molex plugs and use those to power the card. Did you not get these adapters with your card? If not you need to find some. Also I dont know the compaq range at all but is your power supply powerful...

problem? I get no artifacts when disabling SLI or when i run the game in a window instead of fullscreen. Try each card one at a time and see if one of the cards are faulty. Its possible your temps are to high with both cards under load. What are temps?...