How Can I Upgrade my Graphics Card If It Is Integrated?

Hello, I am Currently running a HP Pavilion 714a, with a Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller.

Honestly I don't know much about computers, so trying to find the right answer on the net is hard if I don't give the right question LOL. Im getting really tired of the computers intergrated graphics card, because there are a whole HEAP of new games coming out, but my card just cant handle them.

I already added 512mb RAM to my excisting 256mb, which helped run the games a bit smoother. I have a 2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor.

Through my research, I found out that it is impossible (?) to remove intergrated graphic cards. Instead you disable them. But Im just not sure what the best graphic card is thats compatible with my motherboard.

So before I go out and waste my money on new graphic cards, I want to know whats compatible with my comp. I've checked the HP Website but nothing there really helped me. And I think I have 2 PCI ports (?) or AGP ports (?) Any help would be great

How Can I Upgrade my Graphics Card If It Is Integrated?

Well, here's the down and dirty. Your motherboard can only support what is known as an AGP 4x graphics card. This is quite old, but you can purchase cards that will work for it if you want to. This is easily the best card that you can put in your system http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/eVGA-e-Ge...

(although you may have to upgrade your power supply to handle that card)

In your quest to find graphics cards, realize that they will usually say AGP 8x/4x on them, or just 8x. An 8x slot runs those cards faster than the 4x slot.

So, all you have to look for is an AGP 4x graphics card.

Check out these cards:

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Video-TV-...

And these ones are a little cheaper:

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Video-TV-...

How Can I Upgrade my Graphics Card If It Is Integrated?

if you used to build legos then building a computer is as simple as building with legos. that computer is to old. build yourself a new computer adn choose the components that YOU want. not crappy components that the companies slaps into the box without giving a second thought to the consumer.

How Can I Upgrade my Graphics Card If It Is Integrated?

Make it sure, AGP or PCI Express; no need to count PCI:

That is all, as long as you buy AGP for an AGP system or PCI Ex for PCI Ex you are OK, mostly, although now you have PSU wattage to concern about. More powerful the card is it needs more available wattage for cooling.

How Can I Upgrade my Graphics Card If It Is Integrated?

OK, if you have AGP ports, you need to know whether they are rated 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X, etc. (It will be something along those lines.) For example, let's say you discover that you have an 8X card and like the nVidia FX5xxx series. If you start examining available products on-line, you would see that the FX 5500 is the highest (hottest) card in that series that you can run in an 8X slot, so you would have to avoid hotter cards. Going to an FX 8000 series would require you (in this hypothetical AGP 8X case) to swap out your motherboard in order to use a better card, and that would be a distinct problem. I've got a Pavilion myself, just upgraded my card and RAM for the same reason.

You are right about the driver. Just disable it from device manager and let Windows use one of the basic modes of the new card so you can load drivers and configure what you have installed. It sounds like it is impossible, but it isn't. ALL cards have common modes in them that allow a minimum form of Windows GUI to come up. From there you do the device driver install, reboot, and off you go.

You probably do NOT want to waste PCI ports if you have AGP ports. AGP is designed for graphics cards. PCI is more generic.

How Can I Upgrade my Graphics Card If It Is Integrated?

I have hp and on board graphic I disabled that from the BIOS and installed AGP ATI Radeon 9550 it works excellent.

How Can I Upgrade my Graphics Card If It Is Integrated?

Actually you do have an AGP slot on your motherboard that would support installing an upgrade. And just so you know you have 3 PCI slots (but no PCIe slots).

I would suggest doing a search on either tigerdirect.com or newegg.com to look for video cards.

How Can I Upgrade my Graphics Card If It Is Integrated?

If you insert a PCI or AGP Graphic card and plug your monitor into it. It should recognize it. The only thing that may be lacking is the drivers once you get into Windows. Look at what you have to spend on a card. It will have the system requirements on the box of the card you buy. The only problem I see you running into is if you don't have a display once you insert card and plug the monitor into it. You may have to disable the the onboard graphic card in the BIOS.

How Can I Upgrade my Graphics Card If It Is Integrated?

Okay you start buy purchasing an AGP card not pci express.

follow the 1st link posted below for directions.

2 things to consider when purchasing the card your budget and your power supply. Look for system requirement's before making your purchase some require a certain amount of power.

You can find out the wattage of your power supply by reading its label.

It's the large box where you plug the electricity into located towards the upper left of your pc as you face it from the side. You have to open the case to see the rating ..

After you get your card install it power the system up enter the bios setup by hitting f1 got to integrated devices or sometimes video adjust the memory usage to its lower setting or disable it if possible. save and exit.....

I've added a list of agp cards for info purposes in the 2nd link

How Can I Upgrade my Graphics Card If It Is Integrated?

You probably have 2 PCI ports, these will not help at all. I would be very surprised if you had an AGP or PCIe port on your motherboard. These are graphics ports and they usually only come on mother boards without integrated graphics (I have never seen anything to the contrary).

In other words, you are pretty much out of luck. Save your money and eventually buy a new computer. Try to build it yourself, you will save a ton of money.