Hello YUJ,

Jep is right,

There is almost nothing on your Dell that can be upgraded off the motherboard.

Don't get me wrong, it's a reasonable work horse but if it works leave the thing alone,
( says he ), some time in the future buy/build yourself an upgradable machine.

The only thing that can be transplanted from your Dell are your drives.

PCI-E is the way forward and over time AGP will be fazed out.

I recently purchased a PCI-e and wish to hell I had stuck to AGP as my MotherBoard can take both.
Johanus

k ill try see what can do

is a ATI Radeon9800 good? coz i remember seeing in Maplin 1 for £30. looking in that site it said:

Radeon® 9800 Graphics Technology
The cinematic revolution continues with Radeon® 9800 Series. A supercharged AGP-based card with 256-bit DDR memory interface and a thrilling 8-pixel pipeline Radeon® 9800 delivers real-time, Hollywood-caliber graphics for the most demanding games.

i bet the 1 i bought is powerful that this 1 ....is it?

apparently there is a AGP version of that card:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...Fencoding=UTF8
now should i ask the store Maplins if they got an AGP version

johannus how much was the agp/ pci e motherboard?

yuj

The card that you bought is very sweet! You just need a PCI_E motherboard. Most new boards support PCI_E.

As to your questions about AGP: your problem is that your board only supports AGP 2X.

The current standard is 8X.

The point being even if you find a 2X card it probably won't be any better than what you have already.


Here is a search for PCI_E Motherboards:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...rd&btnG=Search

Hello YUJ,

A couple of months ago I rebuilt two of my own personal machines,

For both I purchased ASRock 939 dual Sata2 motherboards, £35-00 each inc.

2 x Athlon 64 3200+ £99-00each inc.

I used an existing 128mb AGP graphic card on one of the PCs and purchased a Gigabyte RX30HM128D PCI-E card for the other which cost me £20-£25, I can't remember.

I have been disapointed with this card but I suspect the problem is with me and my exspectations from this card, you get what you pay for.

1 x case and a couple of new 450w PSUs

The ASRock Mother Boards are good, budget solid all rounders and will give years of service and upgradablity and have the advantage of accepting both AGP and PCI-E cards. Layout and access is reasonably good, perhasp a little tight on the card slots but I've used boards a lot more expensive that have an atrocious lay out.

There are other 939 boards equaly good if not better to be had for around the same price,
Foxcon and Gigabyte brands to name but two but you will need to choose between AGP or PCI-E cards for these boards.

Both my PCs are not gaming PCs altho' with graphic card upgrades I think they would do a reasonable job. The ASRock Dual can be overclocked but there are much better boards to do this with if that's your thing.

Reading between the lines of your threads, ( sorry if I'm wrong), I suspect you want to start playing games on your Dell, the fact is it's not up to that task and you can't, not really, do any thing to improve this.

Jephree is quite right in the advice he gives you on this.

Yuj, You might wish to check out www.yoyotech.co.uk, their prices are very good and I found them helpfull.

The ASRock Motherboards came from www.advancetec.co.uk.
Johanus



























































































































































































































Johanus

kk
not even a ati radeon 9250?

8x wont work on my mother board y?

ati radeon 9250


http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...?articleid=576

Requirements
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD(R) K6/Duron™/Athlon(R)/Athlon XP(R) or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3V), X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X) or PCI bus.
64MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive

Again this depends on your slot and the card. An Universal slot (continuous) would work. A 2X slot (divided) would not. You need to look at the slot on the motherboard and compare to the ATI link I posted previously. Even if it does work it will not go beyond 2X performance. If it works it would do so via Backwards Compatibility and run at the lowest level.

8x wont work on my mother board y?

Your board was built before 8X was imagined. It is just too old.