need help upgrading video card

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I wont be buying my new computer until the middle of summer, so in the meantime I need to upgrade the video card on my dell until then. I have a couple questions though. I have a dell 8300 at 3.0ghz, 1gig memory, fx5200 agp. Am I able to use an ATI card with this computer, or am i stuck with Nvidia? Also how do i find out what wattage my power supply is, and would the upcoming 6800gs for agp be a good choice. I heard dells are hard to upgrade, is this true? So many questions, thanks in advance.
 
Absolutely, you can use an ATI card, as long as it uses an AGP interface. To find the wattage open up your case and look to the back. On the side of the power supply facing you, there will be the specs, including the watts. Or just tell me the Model number of your computer, and I can look the wattage up. Dells arn't hard to upgrade there BIOS just locks under the cpu and ram section so you can't overclock thouse. What you can do though, is overclock the video card you have in right now. If you want to know more about overclocking the video card, look it up (this site has plenty of info about it) or P.M. me. The upcoming 6800gs isn't a bad choice, if you have the money.
 
Thanks alot for the reply. Once I get the card I think ill try oc'ing it.
 
Mage you must of misunderstood me. Dells Don't have the option to overclock in the BIOS. Regardless, you can still overclock a video card.
 
mac451 said:
I heard dells are hard to upgrade, is this true?
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I have never had a problem upgrading a DELL computer.

The 6800GS agp would be a good choice for around $200. If you have the money the X850XT is a very good card, but its pretty expensive and becoming very hard to come by.
 
Yea I was considering the X850XT but I couldnt find it for agp on newegg, ill just look on some more sites. Is there a sticky anywhere on ocing video cards?
 
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