Compaq Presario 5000 Series

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I have a compaq 5000 and I would like to buy a graphiccard. But I'm not sure
which card fit to this compaq series. Can any body help me with that+
thanks
 
I have a compaq 5000 and I would like to buy a graphiccard. But I'm not sure
which card fit to this compaq series. Can any body help me with that+
thanks
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Provide more details of the system, like motherboard chipset if known,
or at least the CPU make/speed.

"Some" of them used a slightly modified FIC AZ31 motherboard, which
has an AGP universal slot, meaning it can support both old 1/2X 3.3V
video cards and newer 1.5V 4X cards. It will run 8X cards too but
only at 4X (which in itself isn't much of a performance loss for that
system).

IF it's the FIC AZ31 it'd look almost identical to this (except
possibly a row of small heatsinks to the left of the CPU socket):

http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/96/ed/479950-elec_lg.jpg


However, Compaq has in the past been stingy with their power supplies,
you may find that it's current power supply needs upgraded to support
a high-performace video card... some of those were standard ATX power
supplies but you need check that too in case it's proprietary. Power
supply dimensions can be found here:
http://www.pcpowerandcooling.com/products/power_supplies/dimensions/index.htm


Dave
 
Hey!
the model is compaq presario 5000 Series Model5BW120.
Intel celeron processsor
600 MHz
320 MB ram
I hope this will help.
zejad
 
It appears to have integrated intel 810 graphics, probably using a
shared memory frame-buffer because the board was built cheaply,
without the onboard memory chips. That makes it pretty slow,
especially when the CPU is a Celeron which uses 66MHz FSB, Memory Bus.

It doesn't have an AGP port, so you need a PCI video card. It "most
likely" has a standard ATX power supply (but don't take my word for
it, check that) but I would expect it's a very, very low wattage power
supply, perhaps even as low as 90-150W, maybe a little higher. If you
bought a low-powered PCI video card it may work fine but it's easily
possible that you'd need a bigger power supply.

Your system is too slow to get much benefit from a high-end gamer's
video card, but you didn't mention exactly why you're upgrading the
video.

You might consider an ATI Radeon 9100, Radeon 7500, or nVidia Geforce
4 MX (all in the PCI version).


Dave
 
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