Video Card upgrade from onboard..

[bigredmachine]

Hi, I'm Sid..My first question is about video cards..My computer has an onboard intel video card that sucks and I want to upgrade it. Is it possible to buy a video card that connects in the pci slot and use it instead of the onboard video card? And how do I know if I have pci or pci express? Thanks a lot. This forum rocks.

p.s. sorry for the mis-spel in the title, caught it after I clicked submit.

 

[kitty500cat]

Do you have any specs that you could post? Like what motherboard and processor do you have? If you need a program to tell you, you can download it from here.
hoping to help
kitty500cat

 

[bigredmachine]

I have a celeron 2.6 ghz and a First international computer, inc. VC37GV motherboard. The computer is an emachines. (Got it for free so I'm not complaining).

 

[kitty500cat]

Your motherboard, from what I can tell, has only PCI slots. You can buy PCI video cards, but don't get anything too junky, or it might not be a lot better than your onboard graphics.
good luck
kitty500cat

 

[agi_shi]

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