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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: rebecca21 on April 21, 2011, 02:18:29 pm

Title: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: rebecca21 on April 21, 2011, 02:18:29 pm

I have a GA-8I915PL-g motherboard what graphic card can i use for it i know its a pci express but how do i choose? ???

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 21, 2011, 02:23:30 pm

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte forum.

Your motherboard supports PCIE x16 graphics cards therefore more or less any modern graphics card will fit. A lot depends on what you want to do with the system and your budget.

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: rebecca21 on April 21, 2011, 02:25:28 pm

It dosent have to be a ddr type

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 21, 2011, 02:26:56 pm

I think you are getting mixed up with memory. DDR is a spec of memory modules.

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: rebecca21 on April 21, 2011, 02:34:46 pm

So any suggestions so many to choose from

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 21, 2011, 02:39:17 pm

Well I really need some input from you. I said in my initial post that it depends on your budget and what you want to do with your system. ;)

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: rebecca21 on April 21, 2011, 02:50:39 pm

I WATCH MOVIES NOT TO MUCH GAMING NO MORE THAN $50

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 21, 2011, 03:03:06 pm

Please don't shout!

In that case most any card in that price range will serve you well. Personally I prefer the AMD Radeon range of cards but the nVidia range are fine.

Something like the Radeon 5670 would be a good all round card for what you require and this particular model is worth a look.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/190138

Sorry I just realised you said dollars not pounds. You will have to go down a bit from that then.
Maybe more like this:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/199429#

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: rebecca21 on April 21, 2011, 11:56:35 pm

Sorry i 4 got caps ment shouting lol :-[ Tky i will check those out there is just so much to choose it gets confusing and i did have a dell/radeon x300 se but it didnt work figured it was to old.  thanks again  ;)

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 22, 2011, 10:56:09 am

The Sapphire card I posted is one of the better makes in my opinion, but obviously there are others. Gigabyte do their own version if it is available near you.

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: rebecca21 on April 22, 2011, 06:47:43 pm

 ;) tky i really appriciate it

Title: Re: GA-8I915PL-g motherboard
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 22, 2011, 08:24:55 pm

No problem you're welcome. Please let us know what you buy and what you think of it. ;)