Desktops - February 2007

2007-02-11 00:50:53 · 7 answers · asked by kbg 1

Hey,
I want to update my graphics card as i cant play some games which require pixel shaders and don't get good framrates on some games.

However i have a pretty old processor:

Amd athlon xp, 1.25Ghz, x12.5, 1.5volts

Nvidia GeForce fx 5200, 128mb, agp 8x

I doubt i can have pci-e cards,
so is it worth upgrading my graphics card or not?

I've found this: http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=15217&GroupID=331

but obviously i dont want to buy it if it doesnt make a noticable difference.

Thanks,
Luke.

2007-02-11 00:35:19 · 8 answers · asked by luke p 1

E.g How much RAM, HD Space, graphics etc

2007-02-11 00:09:20 · 9 answers · asked by mattandailsa 1

... to be used by a small family. Mother and two youngsters aged 8 and 5. Brand new but nothing fancy within the £700 mark. Decent graphics, hard drive and memory, printer, scanner,speakers etc.
What are your suggestions?

(within UK)

2007-02-10 23:36:29 · 6 answers · asked by Legend 3

i.e i want to configure pixel view tv tunner card with my assembled system which have P4 3.0 ghz with 915 motherboard.

Is that possible because I did'nt try this.

2007-02-10 23:21:30 · 1 answers · asked by kiran 2

2007-02-10 22:46:57 · 9 answers · asked by DH 2

I know of Dell but are there any other good places to get custom PC's?

2007-02-10 21:41:50 · 14 answers · asked by Siu02rk 3

2007-02-10 21:40:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

my computer will run for a few hours and then all of the sudden reboot. sometimes it gets stuck in a rebooting loop.

2007-02-10 19:57:13 · 7 answers · asked by nlween 2

How do I find out the make and model of my motherboard? I'm running Window's 2000 and I'd like to upgrade my processor. If need be I will replace my motherboard. Offhand, if I have a Pentium 4 processor(1.6 GHz) what the best processor I could probably upgrade to?

2007-02-10 19:04:29 · 5 answers · asked by Remlebeau 1

When I turn on my computer, I get nothing - no beeps and my monitor shows a "black" screen just like if it were turned off. I can hear the fan running but that's it. Any suggestions?

2007-02-10 18:29:09 · 8 answers · asked by Dino33Ly 1

Need o buy a few office PC's. Please advice which brand to go for, they should be cheap, provide better service/warranty and have good performance. Also which would be good a P III, P IV, AMD or any other. Please advice, had a very bad experience with some assembled P IV's. So need to replace them, also can we get them exchanged soemwhere. We stay in Kolkata, India.

2007-02-10 17:58:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

If so can you direct me to easy instructions on doing it myself?

2007-02-10 17:52:42 · 5 answers · asked by Remlebeau 1

Even when I hit F1 to enter setup it load maybe 85% and then it freezes. I have to unplug my computer to start it again. I tried using a startup disk, I tried clearing cmos, even moved the jumpers to recovery and still nothing. Please anyone HELP ME!!!!!!!!

2007-02-10 17:20:36 · 1 answers · asked by dmbrooks111 1

I have an iMac 17" 1.8Ghz computer and wanted to know if there is a way to overclock it? if someone has please give me info.

2007-02-10 17:18:27 · 1 answers · asked by Wetsy Calhoun 2

I am running mac on my PC i have a AMD Athalon 64 2400mhz, ATI Radeon X1900 pro 512mb card and 1 gig ram. I have a Hawking wireless pci card and i wont detect it. i went to site and no driver for Mac. help? i also get sound but no video on my vlc player when i play mkv. why? And my stupid installer dosent install any mpkg files it always just runs but never ends, but it never says program is frozen?

2007-02-10 17:11:17 · 5 answers · asked by otakuphill 2

my laptop is having lots of problems right now, the right arrow key is messed up and gone, the left shift key is messed up and missing, its to slow, the cd r/w/dvd r/w drive is broken and not working.

so,
it would be allot of money to buy all that stuff and the computer will really only last like another year cuz its like 3-4 years old right now.

i really wanted to get a mac at first but i have heard that windows vista is really great, can people that have used windows vista suggest a new computer not over $1000 dollars!!

1-COMPUTER MUST BE UNDER $1000
2-MUST BE BRAND NEW
3-IF ITS WINDOWS, MUST BE WINDOWS VISTA

2007-02-10 15:25:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a Dell Dimension E520 with an integrated sound card.

2007-02-10 15:14:08 · 4 answers · asked by informationcomp 2

2007-02-10 14:54:10 · 4 answers · asked by twizmaster38d 1

2007-02-10 13:52:12 · 8 answers · asked by jrockbed 2

Have checked my audio players and everything is up as far as it will go.This is a new computer.

2007-02-10 13:45:00 · 9 answers · asked by planemaker2 1

2007-02-10 12:57:10 · 1 answers · asked by trinity 1

well, the speakers are plugged in right and i can hear them turn on, but there isn't any actual sound coming out. i can't hear any music, videos, or anyhting anymore. what do i do or who do i have fix it?

2007-02-10 12:21:45 · 12 answers · asked by daniel_zamilpa 2

Would a pentium D 3.0 ghz cpu be faster than a pentium 4
3.4 ghz cpu?

2007-02-10 12:16:11 · 8 answers · asked by tsolworldwar3 2

I have a Dell Dimenstion 9200 Dell Capable pc currently running XP Home. I was planning on buying Vista in around 4 months or so (When the next editions are released).

However I have just been informed that Dell PC's can not have Vista installed on them. I was going to buy Vista Home Premium Upgrade however have been informed that in order to install Vista on a Dell system, I need to fork out an extra £100 for the full Vista Home Premium.

Dell have been very unhelpful (as normal) with this matter so can some one please sort this out.

What version do I need:

Vista Home Premium Upgrade

or

Vista Home Premium Full

2007-02-10 12:11:57 · 14 answers · asked by Chεεrs [uk] 7

My computer runs Windows XP Professional, ASUS P5P800-VM motherboard with Intel 82865G graphics controller, nVIDIA GeForce 5500 FX graphics card, Intel Celeron D 2.6GHz processor, 2 hard disks (40 MB and 30 MB), 780 MB memory and a Compaq Coloreal 7550 monitor. Will this information help?

2007-02-10 12:07:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was recently given a Medion desktop pc that needs some work. Any idea what retailers in the US carry parts for these things?

2007-02-10 11:58:18 · 1 answers · asked by Babs 1

I currently have 4x512 MB sticks of DDR2.
I was thinking if I removed 2 512MB stick and replaced them with 2. 1GB sticks would this work. 2x1GB&2x512MB? =3GB
Thanks.

2007-02-10 11:34:46 · 8 answers · asked by The Truth 2.0 5

I've been working to fix this semi-old computer. When I start it up, there's a message on the screen that it says there's not operating system on the hard drive when I just reformatted it with no problem and Windows loaded and ran just fine. But then we moved the harddrive back to it's place and it started coming up with the same message. I've tried all different jumper combinations which worked earlier for it, but now they're not working. So we tried to reformat the hard drive again, and it says there's not hard drive attached to the computer. So all that to say: I NEED HELP!!!

2007-02-10 11:33:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-10 11:09:17 · 3 answers · asked by sparks 1