Graphics card help ?.?

Hi everyone. I plan on getting a new graphics card for my computer but i know very little about computers. I looked online and i tthink i can figure out how to install a new one if i get one but what confuses me is whether its compatible with my computer or not. I saw people talking about whether your computer can handle it or not and about psu(?) and i just wanted to make sure that i dont go out and buy a graphics card and it ends up not working on my computer. I have a Dell DXP061 (dont know if that helps) and i can give you other specs of my computer ifi need to (you'll just have to tell me what). My current gc is a Ge Force 8600 gts. ty in advance

Hi everyone. I plan on getting a new graphics card for my computer but i know very little about computers. I looked online and i tthink i can figure out how to install a new one if i get one but what confuses me is whether its compatible with my computer or not. I saw people talking about whether your computer can handle it or not and about psu(?) and i just wanted to make sure that i dont go out and buy a graphics card and it ends up not working on my computer. I have a Dell DXP061 (dont know if that helps) and i can give you other specs of my computer ifi need to (you'll just have to tell me what). My current gc is a Ge Force 8600 gts. ty in advance

limhol123

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102871&cm_re=hd_5670-_-14-102-871-_-Product

thatd be your sfest bet considering the psu you have and the rest of your system

what graphics card were u looking to get specifically?? and need to know your motherboards pci slots if its PCI 2 and whatnot, and how many whats is your power supply? it should say on it and whats your cpuBangerman15

pci-ex16 (one of them), 8600gt is the existing card, 375 watt psu

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Hi everyone. I plan on getting a new graphics card for my computer but i know very little about computers. I looked online and i tthink i can figure out how to install a new one if i get one but what confuses me is whether its compatible with my computer or not. I saw people talking about whether your computer can handle it or not and about psu(?) and i just wanted to make sure that i dont go out and buy a graphics card and it ends up not working on my computer. I have a Dell DXP061 (dont know if that helps) and i can give you other specs of my computer ifi need to (you'll just have to tell me what). My current gc is a Ge Force 8600 gts. ty in advance

swehunt

the problem is i dont know what specs to put, as i said i know nothing of computters. Im not quitte sure where to look (is it in my dxdiag)? and thank you to the other person who commented with the link. Is that a good gaming gc? (what settings could it run crysis on? currently i can only do lowest.)... haha sorry i dont know much.

Download HWInfo32 from here:

http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html

and run it and post what you see in the summary screen.

[QUOTE="swehunt"][QUOTE="limhol123"]

Hi everyone. I plan on getting a new graphics card for my computer but i know very little about computers. I looked online and i tthink i can figure out how to install a new one if i get one but what confuses me is whether its compatible with my computer or not. I saw people talking about whether your computer can handle it or not and about psu(?) and i just wanted to make sure that i dont go out and buy a graphics card and it ends up not working on my computer. I have a Dell DXP061 (dont know if that helps) and i can give you other specs of my computer ifi need to (you'll just have to tell me what). My current gc is a Ge Force 8600 gts. ty in advance

limhol123

the problem is i dont know what specs to put, as i said i know nothing of computters. Im not quitte sure where to look (is it in my dxdiag)? and thank you to the other person who commented with the link. Is that a good gaming gc? (what settings could it run crysis on? currently i can only do lowest.)... haha sorry i dont know much.

the dude has a core 2 quad 3gb ram, and a pci-ex16 slot.. and thats right from dell. nor eason to be all rocket sciency on this one boys n girls.

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz

Thats my cpu, ill assume that the guy who posted above me is correct. Thank you.