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System Requirements

 

* Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD-K6®/Duron™/Athlon™/Athlon™ XP or compatible with

* AGP 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (4X/8X).

* 128MB of system memory

* Installation software requires CD-ROM drive

* DVD playback requires DVD drive

 

these are requirments for a radeon 9950 video card. what does it mean and can it work with my pc. I have a intel pentium 4, but was is the AMD-k6 things. And what is the AGP 4X thing. any help?

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Alright try these steps for me and I can help you out:

 

Go to start -> run and type in dxdiag and then push enter.

 

When the screen loads find out how memory you have, its on the first page. You have a good processor, so no need to worry about that. Now im assumming your updating a desktop computer, correct? If you have more than 128 MB of memory your all set.

 

Do you have a CD Drive? I would assume so :)

 

Then final thing is do you have an AGP slot on your motherboard. I would assume you do, but you do have to make sure. Someone else on here can help you with this part, because the only way I know how to tell if you have one involves opening up your computer. ;)

 

Hope that helps out.

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What that diagram fails to tell you is that AGP stands for "Accelerated Graphics Port" (if I recall) and is an older method of connecting graphics cards to your motherboard, although not as old as the original PCI. Most of the new graphics cards are PCI-E but AGP is still extremely common. If you have an after-market graphics card, or your computer came with one that wasn't on-board, the chances are good that it is AGP.

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Well, it looks like mypc, a HP Pavilion 743c, is good to go with those above specs? And is that a DECENT card that will run most games?

 

Looks like you should be pretty okay. My 9700pro lasted me this long (recently upgraded though) and could handle Battlefield 2 on medium settings with good FPS(frames per second). You should be able to at least handle the game, but I can't guarentee what your visual qualities would be like.

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