Hello,
Ive never changed a graphics card befor but i do know how to put one in (i think) now what i dont know is wich one to get.
i whant a geforce one and would like to get a 512mb one but i dont know if my pc takes it cos i dont get what this says....

"Total available graphics memory 335mb
Dedicated video memory 64mb
system video memory 0mb
shared system memory 271mb"

now dose the total availble graphics memory mean i cant have no more than 335mb or what? can some one shed some lite on this matter plz i would be v.gratefull

James.

Hello James, welcome to PCHF.

This sounds like you currently have onboard graphics. What you can sometimes do, and looks like in this case, is share your RAM with video memory. You can specify how much video memory you would like to take from system memory and allocate it to video memory in BIOS.

A new graphics card would mean you can free all of that memory, and allocate it back to your system. The new graphics card you buy will have it's own memory and there isn't any limit set. The only limit is what graphics card your motherboard will support (PCI, AGP or PCI-E). Geforce is a good choice, but please don't think more memory is better. Speed is much more important.

well the tower i got is this one
HP Pavilion a6027.uk PC (GB399AA) specifications - HP Home & Home Office products

Nice! That's already quite a good card you have on board.

How much can your afford?

yeah but its only a 64mb right?
i wanna play games like oblivon and stuff like that.
well what ever it takes to get to play things like that i dont wanna get a game that wont work on it.
the one i was looking at was £70 that was a geforce 7300gt 512

Sorry i need to go to bed now cos i got work at 8 tomoz but ill check back tomoz to see if you posted back and to arsk more "Q" and stuff lol that for all your help and hope to speek to you again soon.

James.