Video Card requirments

[Tranc3r]

My current Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8IR533 http://miburl.com/WP6RVWC. It has an expansion slot of: "1 x AGP 4X, supports 1.5V display card only" If I buy a Nvidia Geforce6 6800, will it work with the current motherboard?

I am running:
OS: XP
RAM: 512 MB
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.80 Ghz
Current Graphics card: Geforce4 440MX

[patio]

There are 2 different voltages for the older AGP style...as long as this is correct you should be good to go...

[Tranc3r]

Thanks Patio!

Is there a good store or online store where I can get 2 Gb DDR RAM sticks?


Mobo: * 3 x 184-pin DDR DIMMs
           * Supports up to 2GB of DDR 200/266 memory

I'm a bit confused w/ the RAM...

[Quantos]

I recommend Crucial, they even have a scanner to determine the best RAM for your system.

[Tranc3r]

Ya I checked there, but man, DDR is really old, I thought it would be cheaper... but if that's the price then...

[Quantos]

Older RAM usually is more expensive as it no longer has the broad customer base to keep the price down.  They have to cover the manufacturing costs somehow.

[Tranc3r]

I might just end up buying this: http://ncane.com/lgcb

and the 1 gb from here

http://ncane.com/zltb

I can buy the two sticks of the 512 mb from the first link and then the 1 Gb from the second site. If this works out, all 3 of the RAM slots will be used.

I currently am using two sticks of 256 MB RAM.

[patio]

You better make sure your MBoard will handle 1G stiks before you go spending good money...

[Tranc3r]

Sweet, the RAMs worked out great, thanks for the warning though!

[Tranc3r]

Now I just need to find a good deal on the Nvidia Geforce 6800 AGP 4.x.  Any good places to buy from?

or, if you know another video card that is decent for my motherboard? I can do the price search on my own for it. Just need names! not that pro with specs.

[patio]

newegg...

[soybean]

Sweet, the RAMs worked out great, thanks for the warning though!

So, you ordered the RAM on 11/8/09 and received it on 11/8/09.  Is that FedEx or UPS?   

[patio]

***sigh***