Is it my hardware? All my games LAG!

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Grand Master

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It is hard to tell anything from your pictures. Just look at the front of the computer and read the numbers on the front. We can look up those numbers and tell you what you got.

Yes, Danny... please do this.

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Build one, you can get a hell of alot for $1300, Quad Q6600 CPU is still an amazing cpu now! it runs perfectly, smooth, fast and you can get a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 for about $250? (im uk so ?230) and a nice 22" screen, you could get a hell of alot, nice case, nice fans with blue led's.

But sorry dude, seems like you got ripped off with $1300 for a spec pc like that.

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The easy way out of your situation: just buy a Nvidia 9500 card. Your PSU should support that.

It's not the best card, but it's leaps and bounds better than your integrated solution you're running now.

Or... sell that computer and build a new one from the ground up. That's the most expensive option, but you'll be happy for years with the performance with a budget of even 700 to 800 dollars (US). For around 1300, you'll get a VERY nice computer... if you chose to build one.

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What do you mean?

In the first post you posted a screen of your system settings, its only detecting just under 2gb of ram, if i am correct?

And the system you have is supposed to have 4.

Unless that is a screen of something else?

Can you show us a screen of how much ram you have, in the systems option in the control panel.

Grand Master

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His video card uses system memory. :(

Danny, for the love of God... listen to me. Order the Nvidia 9500, slap it in and call it done. You'll be very happy with the increase in performance. I wouldn't lie to ya.

Order it here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130378

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In the first post you posted a screen of your system settings, its only detecting just under 2gb of ram, if i am correct?

And the system you have is supposed to have 4.

Unless that is a screen of something else?

Can you show us a screen of how much ram you have, in the systems option in the control panel.

I went to My Computer>right click>properties and it shows that thre is 4 GB ram.

His video card uses system memory. :(

Danny, for the love of God... listen to me. Order the Nvidia 9500, slap it in and call it done. You'll be very happy with the increase in performance. I wouldn't lie to ya.

Order it here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130378

I would purchase it right now, but I dont know if it will work with my PC. You saw that screen shots. Would that open SLOT do the job? Thanks!

Grand Master

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Your PSU HAS to be more than 160 watts. Even if it's not, the 9500 does not need any other power run to the card. It's power comes off the PCI Express bus.

I would be shocked if that card didn't work with your computer.

EDIT: There's also the 90 "step-up" program with EVGA. So you can upgrade to a different card if you chose to build a new computer.

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It is 160W most likely...as it is a microATX case (see pics). You cannot buy any standard video card, you need a low profile one. However, even if you find a low profile one (maybe old ATI Radeon X1600?), the power supply wont supported it. So you are SOL unless you can still return it.

And to answer your question, you go into the BIOS and disable it. However, some motherboards will disable it automagically if you put in a video card.

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