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05-30-2008, 10:03 AM
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| IS NO SOFT DRINK  Joined: Jul 2007 Location: Drinking Mountain Dew Posts: 390
| Overclocking Ok. This is the situation. I have a ati radeon 125mb graphics card, but an old mobo with a pentium 3 and only 256mb of ram. Is there a way I can overclock the processor and ram so I can get more performance out of my card, or is there another way?
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05-30-2008, 03:18 PM
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| Band  Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 5,624
  | If it is a prebuilt computer (Dell, HP, or other) overclocking the CPU and RAM will be a no-go. You could overclock the video card using a program such as rivatuner, but you would not net a very good performance increase. I also would not recommend trying to overclock such an old card, it may not take it well. |
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05-30-2008, 07:16 PM
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| Living the Good Life  Joined: Jul 2005 Location: California Posts: 944
| Build a new computer, take your graphics card and put it in that computer, do not install Vista. Umm overclocking puts out heat and I would think that with those old components that the case would not have sufficient fans or such. Definitely not a good option, and if you would wish to build a computer around that card or such let us know and we would be happy to suggest some components. |
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05-31-2008, 07:12 PM
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| IS NO SOFT DRINK Joined: Jul 2007 Location: Drinking Mountain Dew Posts: 390
| Ok. This is the situation. My dad had the computer built in 2000, so it's not the best but I have upgraded it somewhat. Ive added 156mb of ram, a second hard drive and another cd drive, along with the video card. We have two other HP-Pavilions, but they're both integrated graphics, so I cant put the card in there. I dont have any money to build another computer, although I would love to. If there isn't anything I can do with what I have, I'll just have to save up some money and upgrade. Thanks for all your comments.
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05-31-2008, 07:24 PM
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06-01-2008, 06:10 AM
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| IS NO SOFT DRINK Joined: Jul 2007 Location: Drinking Mountain Dew Posts: 390
| Neither of the mobos have a PCI-Express slot, which is what the graphics card is.
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06-01-2008, 12:13 PM
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| Band Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 5,624
| PCI-E was introduced in 2004. Is the video card in a white slot, or a brown slot? |
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