Integrated Video Card?

[acebake]

I was talking to a Gateway rep today (I'm upgrading a Gateway for a customer), and he said that I couldn't upgrade the video card because it was integrated onto the motherboard....is that true? I thought you could just disable it.....


Thanks!

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: acebake
I was talking to a Gateway rep today (I'm upgrading a Gateway for a customer), and he said that I couldn't upgrade the video card because it was integrated onto the motherboard....is that true? I thought you could just disable it.....


Thanks!

Depends on the model. The Ghetto-Level ones physically don't have an AGP slot, so you're basically screwed. What's the machine, the 310-series?

- M4H

 

[robcy]

What he probably refered to was that the Gateway has no AGP port. You can always disable the onboard graphics, and use a PCI video card, and that is where the dilema starts. There are no PCI video cards that can compete with even mid level AGP cards. If not mistaken I think that Nvidia 5200 chip, and the ATI 9200 chip is as good as it gets in the PCI GPU world, which really is not an upgrade.

 

[Schadenfroh]

some advice, if the pc does not have an agp port, dont get it