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@2wicked wrote:
I have a dell dimensions 2400 with 768 ram can i buy a graphics card that says 256mb or is it to much and i can only get a graphics card that says 128mb.

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You can buy a video card with as little or as much memory as you would like just as long as its a made for a PCI Slot and not PCI express or APG.

2wicked,

You can certainly use a 256 MB video card in your system.  Be sure that you purchase a PCI video card and not an AGP or PCI-Express video card.  You will also need to be sure that you have an empty PCI slot for the video card.

Steve

This is more of a price vs. performance decision on your part...

The usual questions of what are your needs...what type of programs are you running...256 mg card may be overkill...then again, with the slow "regular" pci interface, you may want as much video ram as you can get...

forget that if you have the money, with your system, get as much memory on that card as you can on a video card (make sure its compatable www.crucial.com and PCI version only) take some stress ofa that comp...doesnt matter what your gonna do with it...if your looking into a better card then obviously your doin something strenious.

More important than the amount of RAM on the card is the memory interface. Make sure the card you get says it has a 128-bit interface, NOT 64-bit. Having more than 128MB on a low-end card dosen't really help anything (and frequently the RAM is clocked slower so the card actually ends up slower). But having half the memory interface criples the performance severly.

The best card you can get is a Geforce 5600, but they're difficult to find. They have similar performance to a Geforce 4.

Below that, you'd want a Geforce 5500 or 5700le. Below that, a Geforce 5200 or Radeon 92x0.

Message Edited by tigerwolf7 on 05-30-2005 01:06 AM

there has been major conflicts between which is better the 5700LE or the 5600...ive heard good things about both...but the 5600 is more saught after

The 5700 is better than the 5600. The 5600 is better than the 5700le.

ty for clearing that up...as is I wasnt 100% percent sure of which one was better the 5700LE or the 5600