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newb build. Struggling to get twin off the ground
deathrow:
Thanks.
will get on to this first thing.
deathrow:
Ok so I have taken a look and here are some pics.
It would seem that despite the blurb for the ei305 saying this has 1 port? I can see 2?
This was bought in 2007. Some other pics,
Would it be best to remove the Vista and put XP64 on there?
I can also see that this has two small ram cards at 512 each, a good idea to upgrade to two 1g cards?
:notworthy:
BadMouth:
The green one is PCI Express (PCIe). It's probably v1.0, but the common v2.0 cards are backwards compatible to the old slots.
You should be able to find a card on fleabay or elswhere fairly cheap.
I'd give it a try with with 1GB for now. I think I ran mine with only 1GB for a while and don't remember having any issues with M2.
I'd also stick with Vista until you figure out if the PC is fast enough to run Model 2 games. No point in doing all the work of installing another OS if it isn't going to be fast enough anyway. Do disable or uninstall the antivirus, system restore and any other programs that automatically start with Windows and suck up resources.
deathrow:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on March 12, 2013, 09:15:27 am ---The green one is PCI Express (PCIe). It's probably v1.0, but the common v2.0 cards are backwards compatible to the old slots.
You should be able to find a card on fleabay or elswhere fairly cheap.
I'd give it a try with with 1GB for now. I think I ran mine with only 1GB for a while and don't remember having any issues with M2.
I'd also stick with Vista until you figure out if the PC is fast enough to run Model 2 games. No point in doing all the work of installing another OS if it isn't going to be fast enough anyway. Do disable or uninstall the antivirus, system restore and any other programs that automatically start with Windows and suck up resources.
--- End quote ---
Magic will do.
I need to get everything downloaded and then uninstall all but the bare bones.
Had a little poke with it just now to make sure she is working as it should.
deathrow:
any of these any good just to run the m2 stuff?
1g
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?LH_ItemCondition=3&_sop=15&_sacat=0&_nkw=1gb+graphics+card&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1
512
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?LH_BIN=1&_sop=15&_sacat=0&_nkw=512+graphics+card&_dmpt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&rt=nc&LH_ItemCondition=3
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