Hello,
I am currently trying to upgrade the video card on a Dell Dimension 8300 that is 9 years old. Believe it or not, it's STILL an awesome machine. My issue is when playing video from the HD or DVD, when the camera moves fast, I get a horizontal line across the middle of the picture that offsets the top and bottom halves by 5 or 10 pixels. Not terrible, but a pain in the butt.
Currently, I have an AGP 128MB NVidia GeForce 5200 card (DDR). I think I've figured out that the DDR on the motherboard doesn't matter to the video card at all; that is, just because I have DDR for my RAM doesn't mean that I can't have DDR2 and up for my video card.
My main question (assuming I'm right so far) is "Why do some AGP DDR2 cards have 3 sections and some have 2 in the gold part you plug in? I've been on Newegg and TigerDirect looking around, and can't seem to see a difference in the names or descriptions, except the pictures show either 2 or 3 plugs.
Any ideas? Anything work better than any other?
I am currently trying to upgrade the video card on a Dell Dimension 8300 that is 9 years old. Believe it or not, it's STILL an awesome machine. My issue is when playing video from the HD or DVD, when the camera moves fast, I get a horizontal line across the middle of the picture that offsets the top and bottom halves by 5 or 10 pixels. Not terrible, but a pain in the butt.
Currently, I have an AGP 128MB NVidia GeForce 5200 card (DDR). I think I've figured out that the DDR on the motherboard doesn't matter to the video card at all; that is, just because I have DDR for my RAM doesn't mean that I can't have DDR2 and up for my video card.
My main question (assuming I'm right so far) is "Why do some AGP DDR2 cards have 3 sections and some have 2 in the gold part you plug in? I've been on Newegg and TigerDirect looking around, and can't seem to see a difference in the names or descriptions, except the pictures show either 2 or 3 plugs.
Any ideas? Anything work better than any other?