Thursday, April 26, 2012

Going to buy a video card can I change from regular to HD?

I have a emachines w3507 which has an ATI redeon X200 video card and i want to make graphics better will HD video card work on it?|||Your W3507 is not really using a video card. Your ATI Radeon x200 is actually BUILT into the motherboard. That's called "onboard graphics".



Your computer comes with a special slot called a PCI-e interface that will allow you to upgrade to a dedicated graphics card. You can go out and buy any PCI-e video card, and it will improve your video a lot, because the card takes all the extra work of showing graphics off your computer cpu and does it itself instead.



YOUR COMPUTER ONLY HAS A 300W power supply. This is very important because some of the best HD video cards use so much electricity that it will burn out your computer eventually. You can do 1of 2 things:



-Upgrade your power supply. This would be difficult because your model of emachines uses a special sized power supply box that is hard to replace.



-Buy a graphics card that still lets you see HD video, play the latest video games, etc., but does not use a lot of electricity.



http://www.gpureview.com/superlatives.ph… is a website that reviews cards based on their cost, performance, and how many watts they use. According to them, the ideal card for your system would be any of the 8600GT cards because they perform good, are relatively inexpensive compared to other cards, but will not over-burden your power supply.|||technology-http://mtechlaptop.com/

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