Graphics card question.?

I have a HP Pavilion Slimline s3230, It's a nice PC which takes up very little space, but unfortunately came with a very crappy graphics card. I'm easily confused when it comes to these things, so can anyone recommend a really good graphics card, (512mb minimum) that is small enough to fit in this PC ?

Graphics card question.?

hi gail

this is the main problem with new p.c,s ,manufacturers try to save money by shipping their p.c,s with either onboard/intergrated graphics or budget low end graphic cards

however its not as expensive as you think to upgrade your current graphics solution and decent cards start at as low as 鎷?0

you first need to find out what type of interface your motherboard uses(agp or pci-express),howevr since your p.c is quite new it will support pci-express

here are three of the best pci-express cards around and all are less than 鎷?00

the Asus ATi Radeon HD 3650 256MB (http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Component... a excellent modern card with all the latest features including pixel and shader model 4.1 and direct x 10.1

heres its main specifications.............................

ATI Radeon HD 3650 GPU @ 725MHz

256MB GDDR3 Memory @ 1600MHz

120 Stream Processors

Glaciator Fansink

HDMI output support

PCI-E 2.0 supported

next is the XFX Geforce 8600GT 256MB XXX DDR2(http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Component... and this again supports the lastest shader model 4.1 and direct x 10.1 and also has support for open Gl 2.0

heres it main specs......................................

Chipset ...nVIDIA 8600GT

Cooling.... Fan

Direct x support... OpenGL 2.0, DirectX 10

Dvi output ...2 x Dual Link DVI-I

Gpu speed... 620 MHz

Interface... PCI-Express x16

Memory... 256MB

Memory clock... 1600MHz

Video output ...HDTV out

finally theres the Sapphire Radeon X1950PRO 512MB(http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Component... this isnt direct x 10 this is the fastest of the three and still one of the best cards around and the best sub 鎷?00 card bar none

heres its main specs......................................

Core clock speed ...580 MHz

Digital video standard... Digital Visual Interface (DVI)

Directx ...DirectX 9.0

Graphics processor / vendor... ATI Radeon X1950 Pro

Interface type... PCI Express x16

Max monitors supported... 2

Max resolution... 2560 x 1600

Memory bus... 256 bit

Memory clock speed ...1.4 GHz

Memory size ...512MB

Memory type ...GDDR3

Opengl ...OpenGL 2.0

Ramdac ...400MHz

Tv interface ...TV out

Video adapter features... ATI CrossFire Technology

Warranty... 1 year RTB

not all these cards have a 512mb memory,as you dont need 512mb for most applications and games,only games that run ultra detail settings really need that much memory

out of the three i would go for the x1950pro,its a awesome card and extremely powerful for its low price,this card will handle any game or application you throw at it

any problems let me know

good luck gail !

Graphics card question.?

nvidia do good graphics cards.

have a look

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_fam...

Graphics card question.?

As far as I can make out from the specs (http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/... your current graphics is onboard (ie. it is integrated into the motherboard), not a discrete card.

The specs also say that the only expansion slot you have is one low-profile PCI slot. Modern graphics cards require at least an AGP slot, or a PCI-Express slot. The only graphics card you could switch to would be limited to very old technology, and would be a downgrade form your onboard graphics.

Unless I've looked up the wrong specs, I'm afraid you're straight out of luck, sorry.

Graphics card question.?

Your PC has the HD 2350 entry level dedicated graphics card. It seems that your PC only takes low profile cards. There are few low profile cards that are more powerful than the HD 2350 in your PC. Consider these:

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