GeForce FX5500 128 MB 8xAGP Video Card w/ S-video TVout
2007-11-28 08:31:20 · 2 answers · asked by Tre 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
the dimension 2300 is one of the low end desktops dell made, they do not come with an agp slot. look for a pci graphics card
2007-11-28 08:33:58 · answer #1 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as you have an availible AGP slot on your computer. I have seen a lot of prebuilt systems that orignally came with on-board (built into the motherboard) video where the AGP slot was removed. If you look on your motherboard, you should see a brownish colored slot just above the PCI slots. If you see it, then you have an agp slot...if not...then you haveto pick up a pci card. If the later is the case, a pretty good card is the nVIDIA 6200...that comes in a pci version. PCI video is getting harder and harder to find as it is a very old technology. AGP replaced it for video several years ago and about 3 years ago or so pci-e replaced AGP. I know tigerdirect.com sells them (newegg probably does as well as they are not much different from Tiger Direct)
The 5500 is a pretty good card for the price....it's by no means cutting edge...but it can hold its own ;-) I was going to buy that for my fiance's computer until I realised her HP is one of the computers described above with the AGP slot removed. Why they do that is beyond me.
2007-11-28 16:42:03 · answer #2 · answered by woad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋