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May 5th, 2011 13:00
Dimension 8300 Video Card Upgrade Info Needed
I have a Dimension 8300 (Purchased in 2004) with 4Gb of RAM and a NVidia GeForce FX5200 Video card in the AGP slot. I installed Win& 32-bit about two weeks ago. Everything is working fine BUT this computer is now my wife's and shee likes to play Spider/Regular solitare, Jewel Quest and several other simple games. I bought her a nice flatpanel to go with the upgraded computer. The problem is that the games are very, very slow. The speed score for the video portion of my system is 1 and the minimum that the Games need is a 2. I purchased a Visiontek HD3650 agp card with 512Mb on board form NewEgg. No matter what I do I can't get it to install on my system. Visiontek website is no help!!!! Newegg was very nice and agreed to to take the card back based on incompatilbility. I found the list of systems heirarchy of video cards published by Dell (I think). It only lists to cards, a AGP Radeon HD4650 and a NVidia FX5950PRO AGP as known cards that will operate with my system. Due to the fact that these are hard to find (Think expensive or rebuilt), I am looking for other possibilities in video cards. I see many AGP cards for sale but trying to get them to work with my system and be WIN7 compatible is an unknown. Please help me. Can anyone give me a suggestion for a better video card that currently works on their Dim 8300 with WIN7 & 4Gb of RAM and a Pentium 4? What problems did you have with the installation. PS: I do not know which power supply I have with my system. The specification in the book say I have either a 250Watt or a 330Watt. Will the power supply be an issue?


