New Graphics Card...

[Tony9r]

if you can only use PCI for gfx then forget looking for a better card. they hit the performance wall with pci cards about 5 years ago when they brought out the AGP slot, things have gone full circle again and they reached the limit of AGP and designed the PCI Express slot. I think you'll be stuck with what you have now untill you upgrade your whole pc. Ive got a radio controlled trainer helicopter thats for indoor flying and runs from the mains so you can practice all day long and it doesnt suffer from any fps issues :)

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Mmmm... new pooter then... I also got a Dell Poweredge which I havn't used, it's got longer green slots with two partitions/notches, what type are they?

It has a 1.8 Ghz processor, but is only limited to 256MB RAM - tried a 512MB card, but it still only limits to 256. Is there a way of breaking this limit?

The LAMA's good, I got the Twister - no wire :P

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Thanks Derek.

So what type slots are they that are in the Dell - the green ones which are longer than the PCi, with two key's/notches?

Your Poweredge (which is DELLs Server-end products) WILL take more than 256MB.

Thing with their Server range (and certain computer products - the motherboard) is that they generally take different types of RAM.

Poweredge servers take self-checking ECC Polarity RAM if i'm not mistaken (as do most servers).

If you plan to get more RAM for your Poweredge, look on the DELL website or Kingston perhaps to find out exactly which type of RAM you need, then look on say Ebuyer to make your purchase (as it will be a cheaper than DELL themselves.

But yeah, your current PC is being bottlenecked by your processor, and PCI is a bit dated nowadays :-(

D.

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[Tony9r]

3)  whilst you are there do a disk cleanup and also uncheck the box that says "Allow Indexing Service" - surprisingly this can slow your PC down!

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Do I apply changes to C:\ only, or C:\, subfolders & files mate?