My current GFX card in this system is a Matrox Milennium G550. It sucks. hard. It lags on youtube 90% of the time (this isnt MY comp, its my parents, but I still use it from time to time. can't even play in browser flash games at >15 fps) The PSU in this comp doesnt have any power connectors for a GFX card. Since the old pentium in here is in a socket 400 somethin board, it only has 1x pcie (i THINK, honestly unsure here) is there any GFX cards that dont require a power cable that'll fit with it? all I want is enough juice to launch something that requires DX9 (Tried to launch minecraft, nopenopenope). I'd be happy with 15-20 fps on minimum settings. This comp is almost unusable. Any Ideas? I'm pretty stuck here, And my parents are too cheap to buy a comp that costs more than 150$ every like 5 years. pls halp 911 kthxbai
Would need the motherboard model to suggest something (although its probably not far from the scrapheap). The card in that thing is an AGP card and i dont think you can buy those anymore :P.
Get more info on the PSU and interface. In theory, you can use any PCI-e x16 GPU on a PCI-e x1 slot if you make the modifications to make it fit. The catch, of course, it that you'll be limited to 1x bandwidth. Also, most GPU's come with 4pin molex to PCI-e power adapters, so if the PSU has suffecient amperage, you should have no problem running a GPU that needs a PSU connection
yeah but its 120$ which is more than the rest of this sytem combined. LMAO. I just wanna be able to play minecraft or something while im waiting for my sis to get done with my comp
only other things to point out is that other bit of the PC will also effect things like YT and games, RAM being the most obviouse thing. To get YT to run better have you tried other browsers?
well theres not really much more you can do, throwing money at a PC of that age is a bit of a waste. RAM is probably the only thing worth updating after the GPU if you wanted to.
Perhaps just cleaning the PC up as best you can might help a bit, removing uneeded junk and cleaning up the processes so the CPU has less work along with msconfig>startup options. Un needed things like toolbars and extensions can be removed to help out aswell.
Other than that i think the PC is as good as its going to get without wasting money.
we just got it cleaned out like a couple days ago, thats what inspired the upgrade. It is running a bit faster but only 3-4 fps. and its quieter. still sounds like a jet engine lol.
It's not actually that old. we got it like mebbe 6 months ago. it's just, it costed 100$. lol