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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 19th Sep 2007 05:27
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I'm looking to buy a new desktop PC that comes with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/index.htm)
I read over that page but couldnt seem to find much help as to whether or not having a PCI (or AGP for that matter) GPU will cause hardware conflicts. The only experience I have with integrated chips is on my laptop which ive never upgraded.

I want to be able to easily buy and install whatever GPU I want but i really dont know how that will work with the integrated chip. Does anyone who has a little more experience with this have any help?

Thanks all so much!

-SS

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Eric T
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Posted: 19th Sep 2007 05:42
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It'll work out, as long as the PC has the slots to handle the graphics card.

You *may* have to go into the bios and change one setting (Basically a setting that changes whether it outputs to AGP/PCI/whatever), but in most cases, it does this automatically.

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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 19th Sep 2007 05:46
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Alright thanks... that what I FIGURED... but i REALLY didnt want to buy a new PC and then realize i was stuck with a fixed about of GPU. Thanks a lot!

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Chris K
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Posted: 19th Sep 2007 17:11
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Are you sure it has a PCIe port on it? If it does, you'll be able to upgrade the GPU.

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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 19th Sep 2007 19:33
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what kind of computer doesnt have a PCI/AGP/PCIe slot in it?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 19th Sep 2007 19:41
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Well, my father threw together a rubbish PC using old parts. It had an AGP 8x port, so I gave him a 5200 to put in it. No matter what you did in the BIOS, it was always using the onboard VRAM and making the card work with that. Therefore, it ended up even slower.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Chris K
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Posted: 19th Sep 2007 19:47
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Quote: "what kind of computer doesnt have a PCI/AGP/PCIe slot in it?"


Well almost all have some PCI slots, but not all have AGP and quite a lot don't have a PCIe slot.

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