What is the highest end graphics card my motherboard can have?
I have an HP Pavilion 061, System Model: DM185A-ABA a335w.
I am trying to figure out what the best graphics card it would be able to fit into the motherboard.
You can have a pretty high end graphics card as long as you have a PCI, PCI-e (PCI Express) or AGP slot that is not being used. Once you figure out what, if any, ports you have free you can search online for graphics cards. nVidia is very good in my opinion.
I recommend going to zipzoomfly.com to look for graphics cards. They have very low prices and I have never had issues with them.
Good luck,
Corey
Additional Info:
Sorry, I forgot that not everyone knows as much as me about computers. It appears that your computer is an HP Pavillion a335w Desktop PC. According to HP’s site you should have 2 PCI ports available.
To see what a PCI port looks like, go here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Pci-slots.jpg
Even more information:
To answer your question, you can probably get an average/very good graphics card using PCI, but there are not many PCI video cards. Most are PCI-express or AGP.
Good luck.
Graphics card only depends on the PCI-e or AGP slot you have available. Look up your computer model and find the description of the ‘expansion slots’ then check to see what the rating on your PCI-e or AGP slot is. It will read something like AGP x4 or PCI-e x16 and this "x(number)"
is the expansion slot rating. You will be able to get any graphics card that has the same type of slot with the same rating.