I bought an MMORPG yesterday but found out that my current graphics card does not meet the minimum requirements for running the game.
The game manual recommended an ATI Radeon 9xxx and above DirectX 9.0c compatible video card with 128 MB VRAM.
The minimal requirements are: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card with Programmable shader (ATI Radeon 8xxx, 9xxx and above, Nvidia GeForce 3 and above, excluding GeForce4 MX) and 64 MB VRAM.
So I went to BestBuy today and I ended up purchasing an ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card (it also says that it's AGP, 8x/4x, and has 256 MB).
My dad (which does not know much at all about computers) "checked to see if the graphics card would fit into our processor"... He said that it won't fit... I said that it should, since the system requirement for the graphics card is that the processor be an Intel Pentium 4, and ours is just that.... He gives me a demonic glare and say that "ALL COMPUTERS ARE INTEL PENTIUM 4 AND IF I CHECKED MY AUNT'S COMPUTER, IT WOULD ALSO BE PENTIUM 4."
QUESTION: Should the ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card be able to fit into my Intel Pentium 4 Processor??? How do I find the model number?
Please help me.
The game manual recommended an ATI Radeon 9xxx and above DirectX 9.0c compatible video card with 128 MB VRAM.
The minimal requirements are: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card with Programmable shader (ATI Radeon 8xxx, 9xxx and above, Nvidia GeForce 3 and above, excluding GeForce4 MX) and 64 MB VRAM.
So I went to BestBuy today and I ended up purchasing an ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card (it also says that it's AGP, 8x/4x, and has 256 MB).
My dad (which does not know much at all about computers) "checked to see if the graphics card would fit into our processor"... He said that it won't fit... I said that it should, since the system requirement for the graphics card is that the processor be an Intel Pentium 4, and ours is just that.... He gives me a demonic glare and say that "ALL COMPUTERS ARE INTEL PENTIUM 4 AND IF I CHECKED MY AUNT'S COMPUTER, IT WOULD ALSO BE PENTIUM 4."
QUESTION: Should the ATI Radeon 9550 graphics card be able to fit into my Intel Pentium 4 Processor??? How do I find the model number?
Please help me.