Yep totally. An easy way is to look at brand new PC games and see what the reccommended video requirements are. If you get something that meets or beats that you're card should be good for a few years. Somethings to note. Try to stick with ATI or Nvidia. All the game makers use them so you won't have any weird driver issues with games. You'll need at least 128mb of RAM on the card. DirectX 9 is the current standard for new games. Interface deals with what slot your video card sits in your PC. Easiest thing to do is see what interface your old one is using and go with the same. SLI is Scalable Link Interface and that just means you can link two or more video cards together to get even more power. I haven't seen anything that actually requires this yet and your motherboard probably doesn't support it so you'll probably want to pass. Its almost always cheaper to buy computer parts online. Check out sites like www.newegg.com or www.tigerdirect.com. Let me know if you have any questions. ^_^
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Date: 2006-01-19 09:41 pm (UTC)Somethings to note. Try to stick with ATI or Nvidia. All the game makers use them so you won't have any weird driver issues with games. You'll need at least 128mb of RAM on the card. DirectX 9 is the current standard for new games. Interface deals with what slot your video card sits in your PC. Easiest thing to do is see what interface your old one is using and go with the same. SLI is Scalable Link Interface and that just means you can link two or more video cards together to get even more power. I haven't seen anything that actually requires this yet and your motherboard probably doesn't support it so you'll probably want to pass.
Its almost always cheaper to buy computer parts online. Check out sites like www.newegg.com or www.tigerdirect.com.
Let me know if you have any questions. ^_^