Could I put my old video card in this computer?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227261

i heard the NvidiaGT 240 sucks for gaming, would an nvidia 7800gtx 512mb do any better, and would it fit?

The GT240 might actually be better than the 7800GTX, thats an old card.

alright then do you think it would be better to buy that computer and save some coin or spend a couple more hundred and get this

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6299835&CatId=1886

alright then do you think it would be better to buy that computer and save some coin or spend a couple more hundred and get this

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6299835&CatId=1886

Jacob1244

Why don't you take the plung and build your own? For one you learn something while researching the parts, for 2 you know what YOU want not what OTHER people want/have "available". In almost all cases you SAVE money by building it yourself, trust me it isn't hard at all! It is in fact much simpler than in the past where you would have to manually set jumpers

Why don't you take the plung and build your own? For one you learn something while researching the parts, for 2 you know what YOU want not what OTHER people want/have "available". In almost all cases you SAVE money by building it yourself, trust me it isn't hard at all! It is in fact much simpler than in the past where you would have to manually set jumpers

Alkpaz

Honestly i would but im kind of a noob at this. How do i know if certain parts are compatible with other parts? like how do i know a certain motherboard will work with this or that RAM or video card?

Honestly i would but im kind of a noob at this. How do i know if certain parts are compatible with other parts? like how do i know a certain motherboard will work with this or that RAM or video card?

Jacob1244

You have to look at the specs of the mobo (motherboard) in question, if still unsure, you can always e-mail the manufacturer; I did this when I bought my

mobo to find out if the 4GB sticks I was looking at were compatible. It takes time, but as I said, you will learn a lot. :) Video cards are usually dependant on

the PSU... for example: my old 8800 GTS required a 450W Power Supply Unit, and thus I had one so I knew the card would work. (The power attachment to

the card [8pin] is what you want to be sure of [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812183045&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-RSSDailyDeals-_-na-_-na&AID=10521304&PID=3463938&SID], butmost "newer" PSUs have that as a "standard") If

you get a X58 board, then you don't have to worry about if it will support Crossfire or SLI since it can do both, but it might be out of your price range. "AMD

boards support ATI and Intel boards support nVidia" is always a good rule of thumb, you will run into boards that "don't care" but if you want to be safe, use

that as a guide. You used newegg as a source, so make sure to read comments made by others about certain products. (Some of those users post system

specs, you can always check those parts out and decide what you want from there)

isn't the 240 a re branded 8800? that is much better than the 7800. imprezawrx500

"The GT240 performs similar to a 9600GT and will be slower than the G80s and much slower than the G92s. "

A nice site: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

the 9600gt is more or less equal to the 8800gts (g82)

in a lower resolution street brawl the 7800gtx is the dominant creature.. but not by much.

BUT as you turn the resolution up the 7800gtx falls apart at the wayside...

id say anything higher than 1366 x 768 id go 9600gt.