Hello. I have an eMachines T2984 computer. I have considered to upgrade to an nVidia GeForce video card, as Integrated Graphics sucks.
I want to know if my computer will be compatible with this video card.
The technician says I must have a PCI or AGP motherboard..
I downloaded the program, Everest Home Edition, And it said my Motherboard's name is "Intel Plumb Island D845EPI / Sea Breeze D845GVSR / Villanova D845GLVA"
Will this be compatible? Please help immediately as I plan to install this over the weekend.|||I got some bad news for you.
According to Emachine's support page for your T2984, under specifications it says your machine uses the Intel 845GV chipset: http://www.emachines.com/support/product…
The 845GV boards are virtually non-upgradeable. It only has three non-express PCI slots, and no AGP slot at all, so there is absolutely no way you can put a decent graphics card in that machine.
Don't bother with non-express PCI graphics cards. They are horribly bottlenecked by the PCI bus's 33mHz transfer speed, which means it will actually be SLOWER than the on-board graphics you have now. (Yes, it will suck even worse). A complete waste of money.
Best save your money for a new computer. That T2984 already reached the end of its line 4 years ago.|||yes it will work as long as you have the slot for the card on your motherboard as they are agp, pci, or asi|||intel 845 you should look if you have an agp slot, no PCIe because your Motherboard is old. the best agp card is geforce 7800, a decent card but rather dated and quite a power hog (you need a decent psu). Good agp cards are much more expensive and hard to find then similar PCIe cards.
If you don't have an agp slot even you shouldn't bother.
Your pc is 6 years old(technologically) you should buy a new one if you want to play games.
If you can't upgrade to a new machine search for a second hand agp video card.(maybe a radeon 9600 or fx 5700 10-20$ much faster than what you have )
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