At the moment I have an Nvidia Geforce 4 MX4000 64mb....yeah I know. I wasted money. The thing is, it works quite nicely with my pc. I recently tried to upgrade to an Nvidia GeForce 6200 256mb. It ran WoW beautifully, but when I tried to run yahoo messenger, firefox, simple applications it would freeze, flash, or just plain crash. One of my friends bought the same gfx card for his shitty Compaq and it works better than mine. What is the cheapest solution to the problem? Are there any better gfx cards I should try?
2007-07-09 11:43:54 · 2 answers · asked by Taylor 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
It is very likely that your teeny-weeny power supply does not have enough juice for the Geforce 6200, a 35 watter. You old card consumed less than 15 watts. Try upgrading you power supply and that card should run fine. Better get a higher wattage one (>400W) so that the next time you upgrade again, it can handle new video cards. A higher rated power supply runs cooler and lasts longer.
2007-07-09 12:51:38 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol i have an Nvidia geforce 4 mx4000 128mb on my old dell dimension 2350 that im using right now, but anyway here's some good cheap pci cards
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102696
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102533
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139174
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130188
2007-07-09 18:59:02 · answer #2 · answered by chaos_elite_001 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋