I just picked up this video card and I am wondering if it can play any recent games.?

Question

I only paid $200 for it from a bargan shop I read it can run 3D games quite well on this site. This is the exact card I need to know how to install it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814103152

Answer 1

Wow, I am having flashbacks to Pong and stuff......

32MB of video?

My camera phone has more space than that

Answer 2

Im hoping that the 200 dollars was for a complete system rather than the card. The card is not worth buying anymore.
The answer is no, this card is not capable of handling the high end graphics that most modern games require. It is rare to find a game that requires anything less than a 128 mb card anymore and very soon even that would be obsolete to most games. AGP (advanced graphics port) cards should be the minimum you should buy. Now there are PCI 2 cards on the market which is replacing AGP cards. A standard PCI graphics card just dont have enough juice to play the games. Maybe some games around 2000 or before may be suitable.

Answer 3

dude you can't play any games from 1998 to present. Theres only 32mb of gpu ram! You are lucky to play math blaster! To install slide the card into a free pci slot. Should go in easy if its made well. If not you have to shove it in. Get a geforce 6 series or better at least!

Answer 4

Are you sure the link you put is the correct one? You said you bought it for 200$ and yet the newegg one lists is as 35 dollars. Surely something is wrong here or you have been ripped off.

Answer 5

You paid $200 to a resale shop for for a card that only costs $35 new at newegg.com?? Did you mean $2.00 or $20?

How to install a graphics card
http://www.mysuperpc.com/vcu/install_standard_vga_driver.shtml
http://www.directron.com/howtovideo.html
http://www.5starsupport.com/tutorial/videocard.htm
http://www.motherboards.org/articlesd/how-to-guides/1168_1.html
http://www.playtool.com/pages/installvid/install.html


Drivers for your card
http://www.dmmdownload.com/current.php
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That card was introduced in 2002, over 5 years ago per
http://reviews.cnet.com/graphics-cards/ati-radeon-7000/4505-8902_7-9388306.html

As it has only 32MB RAM, only supports DirectX 7, uses a PCI Buss, and is about 5 years old, it is not suitable for any recent games. This was a good card for a Win 98 computer. It is not a good card for Windows XP or Vista based computer.

Windows XP uses Direct X 9c and Vista uses DirectX 10. Typically a gaming card has 256 GB or more of RAM and uses a PCI Express X16 slot if available. The PCI Express X16 buss is over 60 times faster than the PCI buss.

Assuming the rest of your computer is up to it, a gaming card to play ALL of todays games should have a FRAPS (frames per second) of 50 or higher (my opinion) on the following page.
Graphics card gaming performance charts:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

If money is not an issue,
8800GTS $249 and up
FRAPS = 94.6
HDTV / S-Video / Composite Out
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048%201069609641%20106791921&page=1&srchInDesc=8800gts&bop=And&Order=PRICE
http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=640-P2-N825-AR&family=23
Minimum of a 400 Watt power supply. with +12 Volt current rating of 26 Amps.

8600GTS From $132 (Supports DirectX 10)
FRAPS = 53.6
HDTV / S-Video / Composite Out
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=8600GTS&x=25&y=36
http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=256-P2-N761-AR&pwindow=specs&family=23
Minimum of a 400 Watt power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 22 Amp Amps.

If you do not play games, 18 FRAPS (frames per second) or higher should be good enough .

For light to moderate gaming you should be OK with a FRAPS of 30 or higher.

30.8 Fraps
HIS Hightech H165PRF256N-R Radeon X1650PRO 256MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 CrossFire Ready Video Card - $49.99 after $20 rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161037


Other Cards
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048%201069609641&bop=And&Order=PRICE&Pagesize=100
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=30&Nav=|c:1558|&Sort=4
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Graphics card gaming performance charts:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=399&type=expert&pid=1
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1595&Itemid=40&limit=1&limitstart=2

Mobile Graphics Cards - Benchmark List
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

How to pick the perfect graphics card
http://www.pcmag.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2150316/pick-perfect-graphics-card

DirectX 9 vs 10
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/directx-9-vs-directx-10-worth-upgrading-to-vista-for-243099.php
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Common Video Card Buses and their Max Bandwidth
http://www.directron.com/expressguide.html
PCI 132 MB/s
AGP 4X # 1,066 MB/s
AGP 8X # 2,100 MB/s
PCI Express 16x 8000 MB/s
PCI Express 2 16 16000 MB/s*

* PCI Express 2 is scheduled to be released November 2007. It will fit the same slot and have buss speeds twice the speed of exiting motherboards with PCI Express.
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Many gaming video card's amperage and power requirements require a larger power supply be installed.

How to Buy a Power Supply
http://www.wikihow.com/Buy-a-Power-Supply

Nvidia SLI Certified Power Supplies
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build_psu.html

ATI Radeon Crossfire Certified Power Supplies
http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/buildyourown2.html

Diamond Video Cards Certified Power Supplies
http://www.diamondmm.com/certified.php
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CPU gaming performance charts:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html

CPU Benchmarks
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/index.php