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  • XPS M1330 is better spec'ed than my Acer, but the Acer plays games better??

    Any advice? I have an XPS M1330 w/ T7250 2.00GHz processor, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS and Windows Vista Home Premium. I've tried playing games like Battle For Middle Earth II, Oblivion and Tomb Raider. Obviously this would be on lower settings, as it's not a mega-gaming machine. While...
    Posted to Gaming Rig Talk (Forum) by Clogdog on 11-22-2008
    Tags: gaming, Tomb Raider, Acer, graphics card, Battle for Middle Earth II, Oblivion, XPS M1330
  • Dell Dimension e521 Upgrade help (for gaming)

    Hi everybody I'm new to this forum, but reading around on other people's questions, this seems like a great place to get some help. And yes, I do realize i'm an idiot and know very little about computers, so feel free to leave those ego-inflating comments as well I own a Dell Dimension e521...
    Posted to Gaming Rig Talk (Forum) by JuliusCaesar23 on 11-29-2008
    Tags: gaming, upgrade, grapics card, graphics card
  • Need video card upgrade for gaming - Dimension 8250

    Hi all, My son has taken over my Dimension 8250. He loves the war games, i.e. Battlefield 2, Medieval Total War II, etc. I upgraded the memory to 1280 megabytes. I purchased from Best Buy a new power supply and the Ati Radeon 9800 ? Pro video card a few years ago. All worked fine. Then I moved to Norway...
    Posted to Gaming Rig Talk (Forum) by ImageAssist on 12-28-2008
    Tags: upgrade, video card, graphics card
  • XPS Studio - ATI 4850 temperature concerns

    Hello everyone, Today my new Dell XPS Studio machine arrived - Intel i7 2.66GHz processor, 6GB RAM, ATI4850 card, Vista 64bit. This machine will be used for work and gaming. The only game I really play is World of Warcraft. Today I installed Warcraft and started playing - it works amazingly well. The...
    Posted to Gaming Rig Talk (Forum) by cactuscactus on 12-30-2008
    Tags: gaming, graphics card
  • i need help with a video card for my inspiron 531

    hello if it's possible can some one refer me to a list of video cards that'll work on my 531??? i ordered a radeon hd 2600 after dell told me that it would work but it's the wrong card.... so now i'll have to send it back rat's!!! they now are saying that the gforce 8600 gt will work...
    Posted to Gaming Rig Talk (Forum) by DEATHWISH_XX on 01-01-2009
    Tags: gaming, grapics card, graphics card, Nvidia GeForce
  • Re: i need help with a video card for my inspiron 531

    ok well dell told me that it was the wrong card because i have a flat screen 17 inch monitor...... so then when i reinstalled my drivers for the old built in card the pc could not find the internet...... so we had to get another new dell...... now idk much about video card's but i need help is the...
    Posted to Gaming Rig Talk (Forum) by DEATHWISH_XX on 01-01-2009
    Tags: gaming, upgrade, video card, grapics card, graphics card, Nvidia GeForce
  • I picked the wrong card - need help please.

    I have an Inspiron 531S with 4GB RAM, AMD Sempron 3600+ 2 GHz, it has the integrated NVidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 display adapter. I bought an XFX GeForce 8600 GT 512MB PCI Express x16 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150247 but it doesn't fit, thus I figured out that...
    Posted to Gaming Rig Talk (Forum) by jtpwils on 01-07-2009
    Tags: gaming, upgrade, graphics card
  • GTX 285

    I asked a similar question a few weeks back but I need to make sure I am making the right choice on a GPU upgrade. I would like to get the 285 GTX card. I have the 710 with the 750 watt PS. The 285 gtx (dual slot card) uses actually less watts in idle then my 8800gtx (around 140) but under load jumps...
    Posted to Gaming Rig Talk (Forum) by Mr.Oi on 01-21-2009
    Tags: upgrade, gpu, graphics card
  • To those in the know

    Ok i ordered a refurbished dell . Got it today and maybe i just read the description wrong but, When first starting up i noticed the nvidia icon pop up and said starting sli mode . I wasnt aware it was going to come with sli as the description when i bought it labeled it as one card . after looking over...
    Posted to Gaming Rig Talk (Forum) by Woolfman on 01-27-2009
    Tags: graphics card, xps, xps line up, sli
  • Inspiron 1521 - ATI radeon Xpress 1250 driver non-starter problem

    Hello, I recently adopted this machine to help a friend. It was in bad shape. I restored it and seems to be working. However in updating the drivers I ran into one that just will not start up from ATI. http://tinyurl.com/ativistadriver I have tried all the normal tricks including this pretty good hint...
    Posted to Gaming Rig Talk (Forum) by rolexman on 02-18-2009
    Tags: gaming, video card, grapics card, graphics card, Games
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