Some help from the PROs please

Here's my problem. I've got a intel D915GAV motherboard
with 900GMA graphics card(64MB)(crap!!). I want a good card with 256 MB
memory from Geforce 6 series. And also tell me whether the card is
compatible with my board. And i want to play "Call of duty 2, prince of
persia TTT,farcry...etc.,". Can u also tell me wat's the diff b\w
"onboard" and "inbuilt" graphics card(which ones mine?). And tell me
wat not to buy!!
After installing my new Nvidia card can i still hav my intel? or should
i disable it?

"benjamin" wrote in message
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Here's my problem. I've got a intel D915GAV motherboard
with 900GMA graphics card(64MB)(crap!!). I want a good card with 256 MB
memory from Geforce 6 series. And also tell me whether the card is
compatible with my board. And i want to play "Call of duty 2, prince of
persia TTT,farcry...etc.,". Can u also tell me wat's the diff b\w
"onboard" and "inbuilt" graphics card(which ones mine?). And tell me
wat not to buy!!
After installing my new Nvidia card can i still hav my intel? or should
i disable it?


I haven't downloaded the manual for that mobo, but you will be able to find
it poking around this:
http://www.intel.com/products/mother...5gav/index.htm
That's Intels site and page for your mobo.

It has a 16X PCI-e slot, so you should be able to disable the onboard
graphics chip and add a PCI-e buss graphics card of your fave flavor. You
don't mention what processor you're using, but this board will run up
through the Pentium D840 and even the 840EE, their top dual core CPU. I'd
suggest at least a 6800GT PCI-e 256 meg card.
McG.

First off thanks for the advice dear.
It has a 16X PCI-e slot, so you should be able to disable the onboard
graphics chip

Grampa, u did'nt tell me what's the diff between onboard and inbuilt
graphics card.


don't mention what processor you're using,
I'm using Intel pentium 4 processor with HT tech and clock speed's
3.0Ghz.and 512 MB ram. Does that mean that i can run POP TTT with all
the eye candy turned on(with the 6800Gt pci-e) And grampa, what's the
diff between "pci express" And "PCI".
And wat do u think abt the 6600GO. is it compatible?

What you are currently using is onboard graphics. What do you mean
'inbuilt'? Built-in? PCIe is now the standard for fast graphics. Note
the 'e' for express. PCIe has 16 channels when AGP only has 4 or 8.
This means more bandwidth, which means more communication between
processor and card faster. Regular PCI is only 1X, so yeah, 1X versus
16X, I think you can tell the difference there. Also, you will not be
able to put a PCI card into a PCIe slot, or vice versa. The main thing
to look at is if the card is PCIe. If you are worried about spending
too much money, I'd go with the 6600GT which you can find near $120
now. If you are in the states, I'd recommend looking here for a new
card. (
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Su...SubCategory=48 )
There are other options besides the NVIDIA 6*** series, such as the ATI
X8** series, or the X1600 series. Infact, I'd highly recommend the
X1600XT, for the price it is a great deal. Definitely one of the best
price/performance ratios out there. Otherwise, there is also the
6800GT which you can find for about $250 or the 6800 GS which is near
identical for around $200. I'm not sure if you plan on using SLI (
NVIDIA's multi video card solution ), or if your mother board is SLI
capable or not, but you are still able to use the ATI card in your
motherboard, just not in SLI. But if you're not using SLI, check out
the X1600PRO/XT at the link above under the 'GPU' pull down menu. With
all of these cards, you will easily be able to play with just about all
eye candies on high, and possibly with some AA or AF on. The 6800GT
and X1600XT being the most able of the cards I'd recommend in the sub
$250 category.

Any other questions, post again man. Hope that helped you out a little
bit.

JSV

The onboard and inbuilt are the same thing. It's just a chip soldered to
your motherboard. That Intel graphics chip isn't so great and it shares
some of your system ram. It will perform worse than an add-in card like a
6800GT.
PCI-express is a new type of hardware bus, and it replaces (or works along
side of) the older PCI bus. The two busses are quite different, although
they co-exist on the same motherboard. PCI-express also is replacing the
AGP bus.
McG.

"benjamin" wrote in message
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First off thanks for the advice dear.
It has a 16X PCI-e slot, so you should be able to disable the onboard
graphics chip

Grampa, u did'nt tell me what's the diff between onboard and inbuilt
graphics card.


don't mention what processor you're using,
I'm using Intel pentium 4 processor with HT tech and clock speed's
3.0Ghz.and 512 MB ram. Does that mean that i can run POP TTT with all
the eye candy turned on(with the 6800Gt pci-e) And grampa, what's the
diff between "pci express" And "PCI".
And wat do u think abt the 6600GO. is it compatible?

McGrandpa wrote:
The onboard and inbuilt are the same thing. It's just a chip soldered to
your motherboard. That Intel graphics chip isn't so great and it shares
some of your system ram. It will perform worse than an add-in card like a
6800GT.

Don't even try to compare Nvidia cards with Intel ones!!! Intel's just
sucks!!
It jus' delivers 18 fps for games like NFS U 2 with moderate options
enabled(and the top options come disabled after the game scans for the
card!!!).
While i've played a lot of games in Nvidia's cards, I can clearly tell
u thAT even low end cards r betr than intel's top-end ones.

PCI-express is a new type of hardware bus, and it replaces (or works along
side of) the older PCI bus. The two busses are quite different, although
they co-exist on the same motherboard. PCI-express also is replacing the
AGP bus.
McG.

Yo dude,thanks for that update, it sure helped me out. I'd defenitely
post my questions to u.