Another name for a Graphics card is:

Video Card

Expansion Card

or

Video Acceleration Card

AGP (accelerated graphics port) slots are special slots on the motherboard specifically designed to take a graphics card (or video card as they're often called).

In recent years AGP has been replaced by the PCI-express standard (or PCI-e as they are often referred to) and thus AGP is generally considered an obsolete format. Even so, AGP hardware is still available, but often at an increased cost & with decreased performance.

AGP slots came in a few different speeds. The most common of which was 4X and 8X slots. 8X slots could utilize higher performance 8X cards. A 4X slot is limited to only 4X cards. However, many 8X cards have the capability to be used in a 4X slot, this will usually be denoted in the specifications of the card.

No, it doesn't. You can find more information here http://www.rage3d.com/print.php?article=/reviews/video/aiw9600p

You can do everything without that. It requires when you try to play very high definition games

VGA (Video Graphics Array) supports up to 640 x 480, which is a 4:3 ratio between horizontal pixels and vertical pixels. Page 328, CompTIA A+ Guide to Hardware Managing, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting, Fourth Ed.

Type of RAM and its amount usually has nothing to do with type of VRAM and its amount. So the answer is yes it can if you have appropriate slots on your motherboard and your power supply allows you to run the card.

i belive it was IBM in 1981

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More details would be required to answer this I'm afraid.

Ie the model number of the motherboard. From here, we can be of more use to you.

You can get any graphics card you want, your CPU doesn't matter. What matters is if you have a PCI, PCI-E, or AGP bus to plug the card into.

As it's name implies, AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slots are commonly used for high-performance video cards. Other devices using the AGP slot are possible, but rare. It could also be used for sound cards, extra USB card...

ATI Radeon 4800 series (4830, 4850, 4870, and 4890) are known for the newest and the best gaming gpu available, today ATI Radeon 4890 and Nvidia geForce 295 are the best gaming gpu available.

An integrated graphic processor as oposed to a discrete graphic processor. Graphic processor is the same as a video card.

Integrated video cards:

Integrated video cards are built-in to the system motherboard and use the system's processor (CPU) and memory to create graphics. They're fine for applications such as word processing and email and for the Internet, but not great for gaming or other graphic-intensive applications.

While integrated video cards can process some complex graphics such as 3D images, they have to share the CPU and memory with other programs. If the CPU and memory are overloaded or busy processing other information, it can really slow down the graphics.

Discrete video cards:

Discrete video cards turn up the performance compared to integrated video cards. They are separate, or discrete, from the motherboard and have their own processor, a specialized graphics processing unit, or GPU. They don't have to share the CPU with other programs.

Discrete video cards include memory of their own, measured in megabytes (MB). Graphics memory is used by the GPU to accelerate the graphics on your monitor and make gaming, movies and other entertainment intensely realistic. In general, the more memory the graphics card has the better.

the graphica card you need depends on many factors such as what games you want to play, at how high a resolution, at what settings, and what can your computer support. all these need to be answered before a judgment can be made

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When the cost of the upgrade outweighs the benefit of the upgrade.

A Universal Pro slot can hold either 3.3-V or 1.5-V cards. There fore it has no notches to prevent either card from fitting.

Info gathered from

CompTIA A+ Guide To Managing & Maintaining Your PC, 6th Edition

Page 388

Yes it will but the video card will run at PCI express 1.0 speed.

A graphics card in reference to computing, is a hardware component in computers used to generate the images you see on a monitor or screen.

Currently the best single cards available are the AMD 6990m and Nvidia GTX 580m.

These are available only from Clevo / Sager and other rebranded Clevo systems and Alienwares. However, high end business workstations have equivalent Firepro and Quadro cards which are just as powerful, this includes the HP 8760w, Dell Precision m6600, and Lenovo w720.

The gtx 570m, which is very similar to the 580m but with a 192 bit memory bus (3/4 bandwidth of the 580m) can be found on MSI barebone laptops.

NO, 5200FX only support Pixel and Vertex Shader 2.0 (first GPU to feature it by the way)

Not an easy one. In the first case the dell 5150 certainly has a PCI x16 slot. Thus, the actual physical connection to the motherboard is fine and possible. The dell 5150's shipped with an ati x600 card in, if memory serves me. The issue with the machine is the power supply. As I remember the 5150 has a 305w power supply in. Depending on what is inside this is more than fine. If you have added extra memory or hard disks these natrually will take up further power. The next issue is that the dell 305w power supply does not have an additional graphics card power supply cable. Many new power supply units have dedicated power cables so that the graphics card uses no or little power from the motherboard and is powered on its own 'rail' independenly. As I understand it all 8800 require this.

This is not to say you can't have a go and take some of the spare connectors, but to do so you will need to add cables and swap ends, or at least buy a 'x end cable to a y end cable'. This stuff is well documented around the net.

The reason I know about this is I own the same machine and found myslef in the same predicament a few months ago. I settled on a 8600gt, the last nvidia card that did not require additional power supply. The version I am using is the Fatality Geforce 8600gt profressional job that is a factory overclocked version - core from 540mhz to 620mhz. This has given me nio hastle on thel dell stock 305w power supply, despite requring a 350w one. Something in this region works well for 85% of things. It is worth noting that the 8600gts does require additiona power support.

If you are good at such things, replace the power unit and by all means add the 8800. If you are unsure I might suggest settling on a 8600gt (rather cheaper too) and cutting the performance losses against cost.

Sorry to be so long winded

RDE

BUY THE 8800GT. As RDE was saying, the power supply is a bit feeble, but the 8800GT comes with an external power supply lead. You then just have to buy an extension which plugs into the powersupply. It's awesome. Now I play Call of Duty: World at War maxed out.

I recommend that you also buy some more RAM. 2GB should be enough.

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An integrated video card is "integrated" into the motherboard. That means the motherboard has a video card built in.

A "discrete" video card means that you have a separate video card, one that typically plugs in to one of the expansion slots.

Go to Toshiba's website. (google it).

Look for the tabs at the top that say 'Support' and navigate to ' Downloads' to see if they still support your computer. You may need to go to archive support for older machines.

Tosh are generally quite good and provide good support for their computers.

I run a 9600 GT with Solidworks 2008, 2009, and 2010beta. It is a little slow with very complex assemblies, however, it still works very proficiently. It is also a little slow when utilizing photoworks; again, it still gets the job done.