Graphix card?

[jacob777]

I am new to PC gaming. The only thing I have really ever played was Quake and Doom a long time ago. I am now wanting to find a graphix card that is compatible with my PC and one that is not really expensive. I would mainly be playing First person shooter games. If someone could help me I would really appreciate it. I recently bought fear perseus mandate and it crashes while trying to set it up and I have 2 Gigs of Ram and that is the max on my PC. I ran Dxdiag and attached the info.

[maynardvdm]

Hi

 

What motherboard do you have?

 

It is not listed in the document you supplied.

 

Or the make and model of the computer?

[Dalo Harkin]

your using a 128M GPU (which is not ideal for most modern games)

as Maynard has said we need to know what the MOBO make and model is before we can make any recommendations.

Your screen size was also stating 1600x1200 again your GPU cannot handle this at present so you would need to run at a much smaller res 1024x768 for now (that should help with the crashes)

[jacob777]

Thank you for the reply!

 

Ok I ran the Belarc Advisor tool. Here is all of the spec's for my computer. I hope this helps. The computer was serviced by a guy that had to replace a lot of things on it to make it work again. Thanks again for helping.

 

Operating System System ModelWindows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)

Install Language: English (United States)

System Locale: English (United States) Dell Dimension DM051 Rev 1.xx

Enclosure Type: DesktopProcessor a Main Circuit Board b3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

16 kilobyte primary memory cache

2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache

64-bit ready

Hyper-threaded (2 total) Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5GC-MX/1333 Rev x.xx

Bus Clock: 200 megahertz

BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0312 01/30/2008Drives Memory Modules c,d655.05 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

165.10 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

 

MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000 [CD-ROM drive]

TSSTcorp CDRWDVD TS-H492C [CD-ROM drive]

3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

 

Dell USB Mass Storage USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2

Maxtor OneTouch USB Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 1

ST3160828AS [Hard drive] (160.00 GB) -- drive 0, SMART Status: Healthy 2040 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

 

Slot 'DIMM0' has 1024 MB

Slot 'DIMM1' has 1024 MB Local Drive Volumes c: (NTFS on drive 0)154.95 GB130.49 GB freee: (NTFS on drive 1)500.11 GB34.61 GB free Network Drives None detectedUsers (mouse over user name for details) Printerslocal user accountslast logon Administrator4/11/2006 7:53:47 PM(admin) Christy12/14/2009 4:20:29 PM(admin)local system accounts Guest9/1/2008 5:25:52 PM HelpAssistantnever SUPPORT_388945a0never

Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account Dell Photo AIO Printer 926on USB001Dell Print-2-Fax Printeron Dell PC FaxMicrosoft Shared Fax Driveron SHRFAX:Microsoft XPS Document Writeron XPSPort:Send To Microsoft OneNote Driveron Send To Microsoft OneNote Port:Controllers DisplayStandard floppy disk controller

Intel® 82801GB Serial ATA Storage Controllers - 27C0

Intel® 82801GB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF

Primary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x)

Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x) Intel® 82945G Express Chipset Family [Display adapter]

DELL E176FP [Monitor] (17.1"vis, s/n 641805AJ06LS, October 2005)Bus Adapters MultimediaMagicISO SCSI Host Controller

Intel® 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller - 27C8

Intel® 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller - 27C9

Intel® 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller - 27CA

Intel® 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller - 27CB

Intel® 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 27CC Realtek High Definition Audio

Edited December 21, 2009 by jacob777

[Dalo Harkin]

Ok, the MOBO does have a PCI-E slot

so as long as you get a PCI-E card you will be fine, so it all depends on your budget

The below are what I would recommend:-

 

£80 250GTS good card for most older games and most modern ones on low settings

 

£100 260GTX great card for a 20-22" monitor will play pretty much every game new and old at mid-high settings.

[jacob777]

Thanks!

 

Thanks a lot for the quick reply. I really appreciate you taking the time to look at my post and coming with a solution!

[Dalo Harkin]

No problems, glad we could help :)