29 Jun
2006
29 Jun
'06
5:23 a.m.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Jim Leonard
I'm in the same proverbial boat today, actually: I want to upgrade my
ailing video card with one with a faster GPU (read carefully: faster
processor, not bus architecture) but all the cards that fit the bill are
PCI Express and I don't have a PCI Express slot on my motherboard. So
I'd have to upgrade the motherboard... and memory and CPU because the
new motherboard doesn't support what I have either. Just because I want
to get a better video card. So I'm understandably irritated.
And even if you get a card that fits in your bus, you have to make sure
your power supply can handle it! :( I bought a PCI video card online
only to find out when I got it that the power supply had to be at least
250W! This was on the outside of the box but was not mentioned on
the online site.
Cheers,
Bryan