How to upgrade a video Card?

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i want to upgrade my video card.



its: RADEON 9550



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ThankYou for helping|||You will need to find out what spare slots you have on your motherboard. I doubt you'll have pci-e x16 because that graphics card is AGP.

You need to buy an AGP graphics card, carefully take out the current one and slot in the new one where the old one was.

BUT

i wouldn't recommend you upgrade because AGP's are obsolete and so the upgrade you get won't be great and won't be worth it. Wait until you have a better computer.|||you need to figure out what kind of video format your motherboard supports.



This will be AGP, PCI, PCIe, etc. To find out, you can either open your computer, or check the motherboard/ pc manual. If you don't build pc's yourself I'm guessing you bought it from dell/hp. If you call them and ask for a video card upgrade, they will ask you for some information about your computer, then suggest a video card, which they will try to sell you. Do not buy it, simply ask what format it is. This way you can go to www.newegg.com and buy something thats actually worth the price.



As far as what video card to get, go to www.tomshardware.com. In the video section, you should find an article that says "May 2008: Best video cards for the money" or something similar. Read that, and buy based on what you can afford. If your gaming, the more money, the better you will be. If not, the cheapest video card will most likely suit you unless your doing something graphically intensive.



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