Hi, i know i might get a nasty response by those know-it-alls, but could you please tell me if there is ANY WAY to upgrade my dated intel 82845g 64mb graphics card. wait, graphics card right? well i know this isnt upgradable but ANY info on the topic will be appreciated. Or even if it isnt upgradable if anything can be extended to my PC or something i dont know. As you can see my CPU and RAM could do with a better graphics.

Integrated graphics are NOT upgradeable. If you're currently using 8MB of the system RAM, you *may* be able to increase that amount by changing a setting in the BIOS...they usually go 8, 16, 32, 64MB. But that's not gonna help a hell of a lot. If you want better graphics for gaming, you'll have to install a "real" video card ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP2

Well, intergrated graphics can be disabled and you can pick up a good PCI vid card with 256mb - although the PCI ( not PCI-E ) pipes are junk compared to AGP 2x 4x and 8x - you would still see an improvement in video quality and speed because youll take alot of 'off load' from your CPU and the GPU will crunch the FLOPS ( floating points ) Heres a great deal on a card that would suite your situation: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ASLM52256P&cat=VCD WinXP PRO SP2 ASUS A7N8X-X BIOS 1014 beta 2 PC3200 768 1.5t 3t 3t 6t AMD XP 2600+ @ 2.2 ATI AIW 9800 PRO 128MB

thanks for the info! by the way pr3d my evo d510 is a 'small form factor' PC so its really small (quiet too). I opened it up to install my ram and its extremely compact. I i were to disable my onboard graphics, how would i install a card? I dont see a slot and this isnt your average tower PC. Im afraid ive never isntalled graphic card before so any help would be useful. and to jam as well, could you tell me how to increase it in the bios? many thanks for the help guys

by the way its an 'evo d510 e-pc' http://www.ciao.co.uk/Productinformation/Compaq_Evo_D510_e_PC__5363056

Ah you got one of those things :\ Well to awnser for jam, when you power up your computer you have to get into the BIOS; most motherboards have this set on the small delete above your arrow keys, but some also have an Fkey assigned so reboot and look at the screen it should say along the bottom what to press to enter the BIOS. I would assume however that the manufacture would have set this to the mapped memory size of the graphics card onboard, if not your looking for 'Video Ram Size' or simularly named option. Use your arrow keys to get around in the BIOS and find this; then set it to 128mb. Since you have 756mb system ram; thats provding the BIOS even will let you adjust it - these crappy emachines ( no offense ) sometimes have a passworded BIOS too. WinXP PRO SP2 ASUS A7N8X-X BIOS 1014 beta 2 PC3200 768 1.5t 3t 3t 6t AMD XP 2600+ @ 2.2 ATI AIW 9800 PRO 128MB

wow fast reply. set it to 128mb? my graphics is 64mb, should i still put it to 128mb? and i remember the bios part now, ill give it a try.