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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Dumbazz on May 17, 2006, 03:46:45 PM

Title: Graphics Card Upgrade?
Post by: Dumbazz on May 17, 2006, 03:46:45 PM

Hello,I just stepped up to a LCD monitor (Samsung 730B).I have it hooked up analog.I went to this because when I installed Google Earth it said my old monitor did not have enough pixels.However when I zoom in it is still very blurry.

My system is a Gateway,Athlon 1G,512MB of pc133ram,NVIDIA GeForce MX/MX 400 with 32mb of ram.
My question is how much better/clearer would this setup be if I stepped up to a better graphics card?Also which one under a $100 would be a good one to go with?Preferably under $75.I don't do any gaming I just want the Google earth to be clearer.Thanks

Title: Re: Graphics Card Upgrade?
Post by: GX1_Man on May 17, 2006, 04:18:48 PM

You seem to meet the system requirements already:

http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Title: Re: Graphics Card Upgrade?
Post by: soybean on May 17, 2006, 07:45:45 PM

You can find plenty of cards under $75 that will be a major upgrade from your current card.  For example, take a look at the AGP cards being sold by TigerDirect (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?page=2&Nav=|c:318|&Sort=0&Recs=10).