I run on a velocity micro with

3gb of ram, Amd 64 x2 +6000, vista and direct x 10

I want to upgrade my card from 8500 to a 8800gtx

I was wondering if there is a power supply minimum and will this card fit in a mini tower because the card is a monster and Im not sure how it fits into the card slot.

LazyClerk

Not sure about the space issue, but I would say running with anything under 500W may be asking for trouble. Also depends on how much other stuff you have in your PC though (HDD's, optical drives, PCI cards, etc.).

About a year, but my CPU is ony 1.67 GHZ or multiplied by 2 because I have a dual processor. It says 1.66 and 1.67esb1118

Go to Control Panel->System, then tell us what exactly it says for CPU (under the "General" tab).

Oh ya, what virus protection program should I use? I think I heard that avast is good, but I never used it. I DON'T want anything that will slow down my pc (like norton which I'm using now and hate).mattpunkgd

I use Avast and have no complaints. Couple that with ZoneAlarm for a firewall and you should be pretty well protected.

Dude I'm a noob when it comes to this, I have no ideaesb1118

It may be very expensive to upgrade the CPU for the laptop and the increase may not be worth it. How old is this laptop?

just on youtube and break i did not have this problem before it just started happeng to my new computerb2r4a6n8d10

Hmm, I'm not sure. Have you cleared your PC of spyware and adware? Just a theory that maybe something's hogging up bandwidth while you're on those specific sites.

rogers download 431kb/s upload 305kb/sb2r4a6n8d10

Do you notice excessive slowness when downloading files or is it just when watching vids on youtube/break?

I've had good luck with ASUS. Not sure about this board, but looks ok to me: