I'm wondering if an EVGA GeForce GTX 275 video card would work in a 6
year old PC?  The old motherboard has PCI 2.3 slots at 33MHz according
to the manual (Gigabyte K8NNXP.)  Also one AGP 3.0 8x slot at 533MHz.
I'm wanting to convert the system into a HTPC, so I just need a better

I will be swapping out my low-end 9600GT video card with a spanking
new GTX 275 one.  I am currently have the 190.38 WHQL drivers.
Do I need to remove and reinstall the drivers even if I am only
changing a video card (can not run SLi on the single PCIe x16 based

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Motherboard Asus M3N78-PRO. "CUDA acceleration" option in CoreAVC codec
is greyed out. Is it a limitation of GeForce 8300 or the free version of
CoreAVC?

The last few days my system has trouble booting. The graphics card
information displays and then it hangs. It always hangs (or can take
as much as 20 secs) right before seeing the BIOS info. After a couple
of Ctrl+Alt+Del, the BIOS displays and it boots. A normal boot is

Ok I guess this might be a daft question, but I've been wondering.
With 32bit OSes and the 4GB limit on addressable memory, how does that work
with these new fancy dual-gpu cards that can have almost 2GB of gfx ram on
them. To the extreme, quad sli using those where they themself ...

Gonna be getting a bigger monitor anyway, 26"-28"
Is my Quad core AMD 955 2.6ghz gonna be enough to kick along Crysis,
Bioshock, Mass Effect et al in max rez?
think thats it for the mo thanks.

I got a Leadtek Winfast px9800 GT (s-fanpipe)
I need a water cooler for that one!
I've heard that cooler for the 8800 GT - series do it also?

I may have had a virus, but now the problem has really started... my
machine was being very sluggish so I rebooted and then I couldn't get
past the windows XP start-up screen with the scrolling blue bar near
the lower center.  So, stupidly, I restarted again and went into the

The cooling fan of the MSI N9600GT PCI Express 16x graphics card 512MB
Bios 62.94.3C.00.00 on a computer with an MSI P45 Neo3-FR MS-7514 Bios
1.9 PCB 1.0 4GB RAM and Intel Core Quad Q9400 causes a disturbing noise.
This is only when showing Bios setup, starting the computer or ...

The cooling fan of the MSI N9600GT PCI Express 16x graphics card 512MB
Bios 62.94.3C.00.00 on a computer with an MSI P45 Neo3-FR MS-7514 Bios
1.9 PCB 1.0 4GB RAM and Intel Core Quad Q9400 causes a disturbing noise.
This is only when showing Bios setup, starting the computer or ...

I have the choice of two video cards as in the subject line
I have no idea of the amount of memory on the 8800 but the 9800 has 512 Mb
of DDR3
With only this limited information can you please give an opinion on which

First, is it possible to convert 4-pin S-video to either component or
7-pin S-video?[1]  I see adapters from 7-pin S-video to component all over
the place, and I have several.  Extra power bricks are not a problem.
It should cost less than a VGA -> component converter else there's ...

I'm thinking of buying a new card for my Acer Aspire desktop. Looking
around a bit it seems that a GTX260 would be a good card for my budget.
I've found 2 XFX cards for the same money (175 Euro, I'm in The
Netherlands) which seem to be almost the same, according to the

I did a 15 minute video on my Fuji Digital camera and want to edit the file.
Any recommendations for software to,
1. Lighten or enhance video picture.
2. Remove unwanted noise from the audio.