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kinda desperate; how to add a graphics card to a pc?

toothless

this is mr shadow,my support cat
i havent fiddled with the innards of a PC since i was into PC gaming years ago and my brain having been damaged multiple times from different incidents has lost the skills i learned back then.
so i have been asked to put a graphics card into a PC for a mate/a guy who lives in the supported housing block next door and im up for it,but im just wondering how easy it is and will i need to install the drivers straight after-or before?

i took him to the PC shop to get the PC,and i translated all the specs for him and translated what he wanted to the shop guy,i used to buy all my bits from the same place,its a awesome PC case hes got and the innards arent bad-he wants to run total war rome 2 on it and it will play with the added graphics card.

just one more question, given the motherboard has onboard graphics,will there be a slot available for the graphics card?

as an aside,im trying to go on a FE college course that lets you build PCs and work with linux but theyre all for people who are at GCSE level,it is not fair,im capabale once i relearn,im just not academic-i process information slowly plus have issues with understanding language if i dont have a dictionary/thesaurus to hand and im not confident enough to ask the person to repeat in another way.
ive got an appointment at a college next week with someone to see if they have a suitable course or service,i got a feeling they wont have anything for people who are not academic but are very good with computers.
it really piddles me off that courses designed for people with intellectual disability all assume we are useless on computers and are all beginners,i taught various teachers in college about computers and how to fix them when they were trying to teach fellow students how to use a mouse properly or learn how to send an email.
sorry,i waffle on to long,its a throwback from being non verbal.
 
just one more question, given the motherboard has onboard graphics,will there be a slot available for the graphics card?
Normally a motherboard would have some type of expansion slot to add new hardware including a video card. The thing is finding the type of slot you have available for your computer and getting a compatible video card for that slot.

If your computer case list the model of your computer, you should be able to search that model online to find out the type of motherboard it haves what what type of expansion slots it haves.

If your getting AMD or Nvidia video card, both websites have a tool that will automatically detect your video card and get the correct drivers for it.

I would always get the latest video card driver from the manufacture website than using the drivers CD came with the video card since it would be outdated.

If you want to keep your old card enable after installing your new one, you can have a multi monitor setup.
 
Optimally you want to make sure your motherboard has a video slot called a
"PCI Express Bus" (PCIe). Other busses like PCI and AGP are outdated. Your power supply will also require a PCIe connector that plugs directly into the graphics card. And make sure the power supply has sufficient minimum wattage for whatever graphics card you purchase.

You want to make sure the graphics card is minimally capable with 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card shader model 3, vertex texture fetch support. (Video specs. for Total War Rome II.) Ideally I'd think you'd want a video card with a minimum of 1 GB video ram or more.

Note that some cards are so massive that while they fit into a single slot, they take up the space equivalent of two total slots. Be mindful of the video card's fan and heatsink, to make sure it fits into the motherboard and case with adequate airflow and that it doesn't physically interfere directly with other motherboard components.

You always physically install the video card first and then install the appropriate driver files, the latest versions are always preferable. Best to download them directly from the manufacturer rather than third-party websites.

Lots of choices, depending largely on how much you want to spend:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU16/1489

How to install:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2913370/how-to-install-a-graphics-card.html
 
judge,and the penguin-you are my saviors thankyou so much! im giving it a today, he keeps pestering me to do it now though but ive only just got up. i need to down a few red bulls to cope with people.
 
One thing for sure about video cards and gaming. You can never go wrong buying a card that is beyond your perceived use or games you presently own. Sadly software designers tend to develop games that forever push the boundaries of existing hardware.

In other words, it pays to be ahead of the curve.
 

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