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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:24 pm    Post subject: Finding out system specs Reply with quote

Ok, Im trying to find out what my system specs are - Im probably going to look in the comp's manual right after this, howvever, is there a way to find out what type of mobo, video card, sound card, etc that I have without searching through those endless manuals?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Go to belarc.com and download the FREE advisor.

http://www.belarc.com/ctadvisor.html?B
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Idk bout that one ^ but MPI recommend this one to me along time ago and its probally the best ive seen..

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Best of all its free

heres linky...

http://www.sisoftware.net/index.html?dir=dload&location=sware_dl_x86&langx=en&a=

main page: http://www.sisoftware.net/
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used Sandra and it shows everything about everything in your somputer. You can look up your system specs pretty easily using that. It a good tool to have around in case you need some info on your system.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm, what do you guys think would be the best video card upgrade for these system specs?

Windows Millennium Edition
800 megahertz Intel Celeron
40.97 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Board: Asus CUW-AM/MEW-AM 2.07
- BIOS: Phoenix Technologies LTD 2.10 05/08/2001
384 Megabytes Installed Memory
Intel(R) 82810 Graphics Controller [Display adapter]

I want to upgrade the video card, but I dont know whats what... So, do you guys know anything that *might* be compatible - even if its old.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

eek!! Tater, I thought you were getting a new comp!!!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

after a unaminous "no" until the end of school next year I decided that prehaps a small upgrade might be better... Turns out that it *might* be better if it works.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Question #1. Does the board have an agp slot?

Question #2. If the board has an agp slot you can pretty much get anything to work in it. AGP 8x cards are backwards compatible to both 4x and 2x iirc.

But seriously, an 800MHz CELERON?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

we bought it like three years ago... At that time it was 800 or prehaps 1200 max, but the 1000 was like $2200 loonies and this was $1200 loonies.

And, yes I believe that it has an AGP slot. It says in the manual, "if you wish to upgrade sometime with either a part that uses a PCI or AGP slot do ____"
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is the video card embedded in the motherboard? If so you need to make sure to disable it in the BIOS, when you put the new card in. Most Intel video card were embedded into the motherboards. How much memory does the Intel video card have? 8/12MB? I would look for something that has 64MB if you are looking for a stop gap until you get a new computer. I have a SiS card. I know its not the best brand in the world, but it was cheap like $35 at the time. That's better than paying $100/$150 for a video card.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its an 11MB on-board card. How its possible for it to be 11MB I dont know but thats what it says it is on the box and in the manual... I was thinking about a nvidia geforce MX 400 (or so) for a card. Or a ATI Radeon 9200 128MB AGP card....
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dont get the MX series of nVidia, they dont work with many games. Get eather a ATI or nVidia just not the nvidia MX series. And according to your current card any gfx card would be better so just fork out around 40-50$ and u can get a card pritty cheap now.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The geforce 4 ti series should be the absolute lowest you should look at with nvidia.

With ati I wouldnt recommend looking at anything less than a 9200.


Of course im sitting here typing this on my machine with a geforce2 gts...
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, theres so many choices . Im wondering about the Radeon 9000... It seems to be a good deal - about $140 here so its fairly cheep. I dunno what the performance is though - but I WANT something better then what I have now.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

osiris wrote:
Idk bout that one ^ but MPI recommend this one to me along time ago and its probally the best ive seen..

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Best of all its free

heres linky...

http://www.sisoftware.net/index.html?dir=dload&location=sware_dl_x86&langx=en&a=

main page: http://www.sisoftware.net/


Aye that 1 kicks ass just tried it out thx for the link
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