new graphics card..

Sorry if i'm littering this part of hte forum, but i just keep on coming up with new questions to ask. I returned my other pci-e card and jsut bought a new card taht works with my pci bus. here are its stats:

Features:
GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce? FX 5500
Bus Type: PCI
Memory: 256MB DDR
Core Clock: 270MHz
RAMDACs: Integrated
Vertices/Sec.: 67.5 million
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4GB/sec.
Maximum Resolution: 2048 x 1536 @ 85 Hz
API Support: Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and lower, OpenGL 1.5 and lower for Microsoft® Windows®

Specifications:
- Ultra Shadow Technology - CineFX 2.0 Engine - Intellisample Technology - nView Multi-display Technology
- Supports DirectX 9.0 - Supports OpenGL 1.4 support - 3rd generation Lightspeed Memory Architecture - Advanced Display Pipeline with full nView Capabilities - Advanced Display Pipeline with full nView Capabilities
- High-performance, high-precision 3D rendering engine - High-performance 2D rendering engine - Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0 - NVIDIA nView multi-display technology - Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) - Up to 4 pixels per clock rendering engine - Up to 16 textures per pass - Digital Vibrance Control? 3.0 - NVIDIA® CineFX? Engine

Microsoft DirectX 9 support :
- Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 with Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 2.0
- Enjoy better performance in multimedia, games and applications with Microsoft DirectX 9 optimized architecture
- DirectPlay of the Microsoft DirectX 9 brings improved multiplayer access to groups connecting over LANs and the Internet
- Also supporting the latest OpenGL functionality and feature sets

Nothing puts more stress on a video card than brand-new video games. If you want to play the latest and greatest you may want to upgrade your video card. Read the following Microsoft link: Video card 101
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...eocard101.mspx

Connector:

- 15 Pin Standard VGA Connector
- S-video connector
- DVI ?I connector

Product condition: Brand New in Retail box.

Package includes: - NVIDIA GeForce FX5500 PCI Card. - RCA to S-video Adapter - User Guide and Driver CD.

Requirements: - Available PCI slot.- CD-rom drives to install driver. - Intel Pentium 4/III/II/Celeron AMD K6/Duron Athlon class processor - 32 MB of RAM or Higher

Operating System Support: - Windows® XP - Windows 2000 - Windows Me - Windows NT® (all) - Windows 98, Windows 95 - Linux compatible

Regulatory Approvals: FCC - CE


now, a couple of you said computers like mine are hard to upgrade. is the hp pavilion a705w compatible with this card? please say yes. lol, thanks again. also, i'm replacing an integrated graphics card. and this oen says that it's RAMDACs, whatever that is, is intergrated. does taht mean i'm buying anotehr intgrated graphics card? ty

isn't the HP pavilion a notebook????? The GeForce FX5500 is a desktop GPU. I'm pretty positive that will not work.

i've got a GeForce FX5500 for my desktop, and it is way old. Got it back in 2004, and there are much better GPU's out on the market today. I'm about to get rid of it and get a 7300GT. It doesn't run GW very smooth at all, you're lucky if you can put out 20 FPS when ur running around.

Googled "hp pavilion a705w", it seems to be a cheap-ass desktop. It uses some obscure cheap motherboard from MSI that may or may not have an AGP port so PCI may be the only way to go here.

Just so you know: the GeForce FX 5 series already sucked when it came out. Its shader performance and power efficiency is very poor compared to newer stuff, and the FX 5500 is just a middlerange card from the series; it will not run GW or any recent game playably at high settings and/or resolutions.

Though it's definitely an upgrade from the integrated card.

lol, yes it is a cheap ass desktop, my rents bought it for me @ $500 at walmart =.=. But yes, all i'm trying to do is get an upgrade from my integrated card, so i was just wondering, since i'm buying it for $50, if this was an ok deal?

btw, the best i can run GW at atm is at all low/off, cept graphics i can go at medium...so...this will hopefully be a huge upgrade

Personally, I'd avoid any Nvidia card that has "FX" or "MX" in it's title!

If you're gonna upgrade you might as well get the recommended Spec card: 9600 or FX5700 OR BETTER.

Just make sure your CPU is good enough too, no point getting a new 3D card if your CPU isnt at least a P4 2gig (Celerons = bad).

Again, you might want to avoid GeForce FX 5-something cards even though they're recommended by Anet - those recommendations are OLD. The GeForce FX is also a pretty bad design overall, it has shader performance issues with pretty much every recent title, including GW: Nightfall and Eye of the North. I've seen much better cards sell for around $50.