A video card driver is a piece of software that tells your computer how to send images to your video card, so it can display them on your monitor. With more modern operating systems that can operate a video card without installing a driver, they are used to control more advanced features of the card like hardware acceleration and TV output.
Go to control panel. go to add/remove hardware.
Delete the old graphics card completely.
turn off the computer.
place ur new card inside in the right spots and make sure everything is connected.
get the installation CD if u have one.
start the computer, depending on what happens go to the control panel and add the new hardware, get the firmware off the internet or use the installion CD that comes with the graphics card when u buy it.
install then restart ur computer. EASY
yes if you have a celeron CPU you can upgrade to highter rated celeron's but to a max of 667mhz bus speeds. as for c2d CPU's again providing you keep with the 667mhz bus range the sky is the limit ! mine was a t2700 which i upgraded to a t7600 ! i have also upgraded my memory from 1gig 800mhz to 4gig 800mhz bios sees new CPU and memory correctly and set them correctly
Press down with a screw driver on all corners of the socketed chip on the card. This problem occurs because of thermal changes and is called chip creep.
In fact there are a huge variety of PCI Express video cards. If you plan on looking at some or even buying them, go to tigerdirect.com, click on PC Parts at the top, scroll down and click on PCI Express for video cards. I'm am most sure that this will be very helpful.
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actually 1 gb ram is too low...nowadays minimum requirements always demand 2gb ram....graphics card 512 mb is not bad but also it depends what graphic card one is using so atleast you must always have a 2gb or 4 gb graphics card
and ya you can play games like hitman blood money, and other old stuff...i doubt about COD modern warfare
Starcraft 1. Probably some stuff made more than 10 years ago. I think I've run Jedi Knight dark forces II, and maybe Morrowind. Not to mention minesweeper, duh.
For FPS check out Cube 1, or maybe some older versions of Sauerbraten (cube 2) will work, lots of people play that online.
Look for some sites that review good freeware games, but not arcade style, unless you want that. "indie" games are usually good.
Hey X4500 is allright ! I played Far Cry 2 , NFS undercover and Kane n Lange they all worked on medium graphics wheras Fifa09 was working not very well ! So buy it if u plan to buy a 3d card in future !!!
People put their fingers on these keys on the keyboard. They use this position to type without looking at the keyboard. It is called touch-typing.
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AGP stands for Accelerated Graphics Port. This type of graphics card provides a dedicated way for your computer to communicate with your graphics card.
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The main way to tell which expansion card is the video card is to look at the plug. If it has a VGA socket, a display port socket, HDMI, etc., then you will know it is a video card. You may identify some of the chips on the card as being RAM, or you might find a fan on it, but these features are not exclusive to video cards. If that is the place where you plug your monitor, then it is a video card, unless of course you are plugging directly into the motherboard.
There are many advantages to having multiple monitors on a single system. With multiple monitors you can have one application open on one monitor, while you have information that needs to be input on another monitor. Having multiple monitors, can greatly increase work efficiency as there is less need to alt-tab between applications.
AGP or Accelerated Graphics Port slots are used for graphics cards. Display quality is significantly enhanced when using AGP video cards.
The graphics card on your laptop can be updated. You can buy new ones on-line as well as in electronic stores. When you are buying a new one make sure they are made for laptops, desktop ones are not compatible with laptops
Late 2013 and early 2014 has been and will be a very exciting time for graphics cards.
AMD released the R9 270, 280, 290, and 290x recently.
nVidia recently released and announced the 780Ti, a powerful upgrade to the existing GTX 780.
You can read about any of these cards on a variety of websites including http://linustechtips.com/main/, http://www.anandtech.com, and a variety of other websites.
No!! To have a decent GPU in Laptop I suggest you to buy at least a gt540 or hd5730.
Well the driver will take up very little hard drive space depending on the video card. Now all video cards have built in memory (RAM) but after the ammount that is on the video card runs out. It will start using the RAM on your computer. Just depends on the game you are trying to run. Also your Proccessor, RAM and Video Card all work together for running games. Hope this helped :)
This is a tough question to answer for a couple of reasons. First off: There are a lot of motherboards to choose from and there isn't really 1 out there that is absolutely the best. Intense graphics design requires some of the best hardware you can get and the motherboard is only 1 of many things to decide on. The Video Card, Processor and RAM are probably the most important things you will need to choose. The higher the frequency of the FSB (Front Side Bus) the less likely it will be a bottleneck for your graphics. If you are willing to pay a lot of money for a really nice system I could suggest some kind of dual processor board, a PNY video card, and a lot of fast RAM. A good recourse for motherboards is www.mbreview.com There you will be able to find some excellent reviews on the latest motherboards. Some of my favorite brands are AOpen, Chaintech and MSI. They seem to be very reliable.
Asus, Gigabyte and Intel are three very good mb makers. If you're looking for extreme high-end, Gigabyte has a new MB with FOUR x16 slots, taking SLI to a new level.
If you are looking at using Vista, it's the video card(s) that need the attention, because available RAM is limited to less than 4MB, so the big factor is to get onboard (unshared) memory on your graphics card -- you don't want shared memory, which is going to subtract from RAM available to the CPU. With Win7, this is less of a problem.
If you like AMD, the Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H looks pretty good on the high end. It has 128mb of "side-port" memory that, as I understand it, is dedicated to graphics. I don't think it's a bit deal but it is a plus.
Another name for a Graphics card is:
Video Card
Expansion Card
or
Video Acceleration Card