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[-Quasar-]

I'm going to upgrade my 6 year old pc..

Please don't laugh

Mind you all I really don't know anything about pcs. I wanted to know if the new graphics card I will be putting will be compatible with my old motherboard.

The current specs are:

Motherboard - ASUS P4S8X-X
Processor - Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.4 GHz
Hard drive - 2. 1 with around 70gb other with 80gb
Graphics Card - Nvidia Gefore FX5200
512 ram

What my friend will give me is 1gb ram and his old graphics card, which is a Gainward5900XT.

Is it compatible? Can his graphics card be compatible with my motherboard?

I know that its such a shit spec, compared to all you Dual graphics card Gefore 8800 out there. But I can't afford to buy a new rig and he is actually being a good freind in giving me those 2 plus a fan..

IS THERE HOPE?!

[DarkKitchen]

Download cpu-z then click on the mainboard tab then screenshot it and put it on here

[7h3 n00b m4573r]

ok, you got 3 RAM slots (should be DDR) and an AGP port

so you put upto 3 sticks of DDR into it and the graphics card will work if it's AGP (i've seen a hacked FX5900 made to use PCIe so make sure it's not one of those)

[-Quasar-]

Here you go.

[TheCh*ckenFace]

its always difficult to justify upgrading old hardware...
One cheap trick that is usually safe is jsut add more ram. I believe that chipset won't take more than 2 gigs so just shove a couple of 512 sticks in there in dual channel and a 1 gig perhaps?
after that slide with either and better harddrive/graphics card depending if your look at entertainment/games respectively.

I wouldn't advise getting both a hard drive AND a gfx card because that would be treading into area where you could be saving for a better pc.

[TheBase]

I know that its such a shit spec, compared to all you Dual graphics card Gefore 8800 out there. But I can't afford to buy a new rig and he is actually being a good freind in giving me those 2 plus a fan..

Imo, dual 8800 Gt is kind of excessive.

[KeH KeH KeH]

IMO, All you really need is a bit more ram and a new gfx card. This wouldn't give you the best of pcs but it definitely wouldn't be the worst of gaming pcs out there, either. For ram I would recommend about 512 or 1gb more. For gfx, since your motherboard only supports AGP, I would say to buy anything Geforce 6+, since that's about what most modern games require (well any that you have hope of playing, anyway - just don't expect to be able to play anything like crysis).But just make sure the gfx card is agp before you buy it (ie not pci-e or pci)

[-Quasar-]

News update!

.I can either get this upgrade for free:

Motherboard - ASUS P4S8X-X (My pc)
Processor - Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.4 GHz (My pc)
Graphics Card - Gainward5900XT
Memory - 1GB Ram

OR

.I can either buy this off a friend for about 100-150€:

Motherboard - Forgot the name but its better than mine
Processor - Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.x GHz
Graphics Card - Gefore5900
Memory - 1.5GB Ram
His old case
Basically his old pc with my hard drives

What do you guys think?

[Rayza]

News update!

.I can either get this upgrade for free:

Motherboard - ASUS P4S8X-X (My pc)
Processor - Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.4 GHz (My pc)
Graphics Card - Gainward5900XT
Memory - 1GB Ram

OR

.I can either buy this off a friend for about 100-150€:

Motherboard - Forgot the name but its better than mine
Processor - Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.x GHz
Graphics Card - Gefore5900
Memory - 1.5GB Ram
His old case
Basically his old pc with my hard drives

What do you guys think?

I'd get the free upgrade then start saving towards a real new rig.

[Weiman]

Absolutely.

[-Quasar-]

Cool. Free upgrade it is

New pc after this school year