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Compaq Presario 5000 Series
I have a compaq 5000 and I would like to buy a graphiccard. But I'm not sure
which card fit to this compaq series. Can any body help me with that+ thanks |
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There are several models in the 5000 series,can you give the exact model
number? "Zejad Setrallah" wrote in message k... I have a compaq 5000 and I would like to buy a graphiccard. But I'm not sure which card fit to this compaq series. Can any body help me with that+ thanks |
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:58:52 +0200, "Zejad Setrallah"
wrote: I have a compaq 5000 and I would like to buy a graphiccard. But I'm not sure which card fit to this compaq series. Can any body help me with that+ thanks Provide more details of the system, like motherboard chipset if known, or at least the CPU make/speed. "Some" of them used a slightly modified FIC AZ31 motherboard, which has an AGP universal slot, meaning it can support both old 1/2X 3.3V video cards and newer 1.5V 4X cards. It will run 8X cards too but only at 4X (which in itself isn't much of a performance loss for that system). IF it's the FIC AZ31 it'd look almost identical to this (except possibly a row of small heatsinks to the left of the CPU socket): http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/96/e...50-elec_lg.jpg However, Compaq has in the past been stingy with their power supplies, you may find that it's current power supply needs upgraded to support a high-performace video card... some of those were standard ATX power supplies but you need check that too in case it's proprietary. Power supply dimensions can be found he http://www.pcpowerandcooling.com/pro...ions/index.htm Dave |
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Hey! the model is compaq presario 5000 Series Model5BW120. Intel celeron processsor 600 MHz 320 MB ram I hope this will help. zejad "Zejad Setrallah" wrote in message k... I have a compaq 5000 and I would like to buy a graphiccard. But I'm not sure which card fit to this compaq series. Can any body help me with that+ thanks |
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:10:38 +0200, "Zejad Setrallah"
wrote: "Zejad Setrallah" wrote in message . dk... I have a compaq 5000 and I would like to buy a graphiccard. But I'm not sure which card fit to this compaq series. Can any body help me with that+ thanks It appears to have integrated intel 810 graphics, probably using a shared memory frame-buffer because the board was built cheaply, without the onboard memory chips. That makes it pretty slow, especially when the CPU is a Celeron which uses 66MHz FSB, Memory Bus. It doesn't have an AGP port, so you need a PCI video card. It "most likely" has a standard ATX power supply (but don't take my word for it, check that) but I would expect it's a very, very low wattage power supply, perhaps even as low as 90-150W, maybe a little higher. If you bought a low-powered PCI video card it may work fine but it's easily possible that you'd need a bigger power supply. Your system is too slow to get much benefit from a high-end gamer's video card, but you didn't mention exactly why you're upgrading the video. You might consider an ATI Radeon 9100, Radeon 7500, or nVidia Geforce 4 MX (all in the PCI version). Dave |
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