Need a new gfx card

[Hitman]

Hey, my PC mobo died so it was replaced with an ASUS P5KPL-AM SE mobo. It's got intergrated graphics (Intel GMA3100) which is... well, pretty crap. There are weird white lines on certain things, some images that have bold colours you can see the screen flickering... so basically I want another graphics card.

The mobo has a PCI Express x16 slot, which is for graphics cards I believe... I think I've found a couple of decent cheap gfx cards, they only need to be cheap and simple but at least half decent.

First I found was this: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/161824
Second was: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/161335

First Q is, would they work on my mobo and second is do you simply slot in the gfx card into the PCI slot, then install the drivers and away you go? I read you might have to disable the onboard graphics.

Mobo specs: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...442&CatId=3461 (scroll to near the bottom)

If anybody could find any cheap graphics cards that'd fit could you post them?

Thanks!

edit: the dude in the video says the PCI x16 slot isn't "2.0" whereas those cards I posted are "2.0", so I guess they wont work... this would though, right?: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/156236

[Recursion]

2.0 Cards will work in 1.0, they will just reduce the speed of the bus, but not many graphics cards even reach 2.0 speeds (so Stephen told me)

[N!ck]

The onboard should disable itself, but you can manually do it in the BIOS as well.

You first need to remove the integrated graphics drivers via device manager then plug the new card in, turn on and install the new drivers for it.

You don't game do you? And go for the 9400GT, not the 8400GS.

[Agnostic Bear]

2.0 Cards will work in 1.0, they will just reduce the speed of the bus, but not many graphics cards even reach 2.0 speeds (so Stephen told me)

No cards reach x16 speeds at the moment that I know of.

[Hitman]

2.0 Cards will work in 1.0, they will just reduce the speed of the bus, but not many graphics cards even reach 2.0 speeds (so Stephen told me)

Excellent!

The onboard should disable itself, but you can manually do it in the BIOS as well.

You first need to remove the integrated graphics drivers via device manager then plug the new card in, turn on and install the new drivers for it.

You don't game do you? And go for the 9400GT, not the 8400GS.

Thanks for that information! Nah, I don't game but I do graphic design, so I guess it'd be good for that. OK, I'll get the 9400GT.

No cards reach x16 speeds at the moment that I know of.

Okey dokey, thanks!

One last thing, my power supply should be able to take it? (450w)

[Stephen!]

No cards reach x16 speeds at the moment that I know of.

The only 3 I know of are the dual gpu cards aka the GTX295, 4850X2 and the 4870X2

These will be bottlenecked, though slightly, by the 1.1 slot.

One last thing, my power supply should be able to take it? (450w)

Yes, quite easily I would say.

[Hitman]

The only 3 I know of are the dual gpu cards aka the GTX295, 4850X2 and the 4870X2

These will be bottlenecked, though slightly, by the 1.1 slot.



Yes, quite easily I would say.

Thanks, I'll get the 9400GT.

Thanks again to everybody.

[Hitman]

I decided I wont clog up the forums with a new thread.

I now have the 9400GT and it's alright, tonnes better than the integrated crap.

It comes with an overclocking thing, ASUS SmartDoctor. The GPU temperature is at 52c, so would it be okay to overclock, and if so will it make much difference?

Current setting are as follows...

Engine: 550Mhz
Shader: 1375Mhz
Memory: 800Mhz

What should I change them to?

[Stephen!]

It wouldn't be worth overclocking a 9400GT I wouldn't think.

[Hitman]

It wouldn't be worth overclocking a 9400GT I wouldn't think.

Okay... I've just noticed something I did NOT want to see...

My intergrated gfx produced some weird line on some images and the start menu, which was only seen on screen and not on a print screen... replaced the gfx card and I can faintly see it on the start menu and in some other places...

What could be causing it, the mobo? It never did this before when I had an intergrated nVidia GeForce 7100 256MB... which I assume is worse than the 9400GT.

All thats been replaced is the mobo... hmm... can you clear this up maybe?