Graphics card

[David Brown]

I'm upgrading my computer from a NVidia GeForce 7500 LE to a NVidia GeForce GTX 260. The new card fits and it's compatible and everything, but 3 wires plug in behind the spot for the card on the motherboard. The plugs don't allow the card to be plugged in. Can the wires be taken out of the plug-in thingy and sautered into the plug-spots for them? Then the card can be squeezed in to the computer, because then the wires wouldn't take up as much space, and that will give the back of the graphics card room so the front of it can plug into the slot.

Sorry if I'm describing this bad, basically I'm asking, can the plugs that connect the wires to the motherboard plugin spots be removed from the wires, then have the wires sautered onto the plugin spots instead. That would just give the graphics card enough room to be sneaked into the spot. 2 of the plugs go to firewire slots (I think its what they're called, they look like oversized USB's) The third goes to the power on/ power off though, and there isn't a manual power on button on either the motherboard or the power supply, so I need that wire.

I wouldn't be attempting this myself, its way beyond what I feel comfortable doing. I added some RAM myself today, and when I turned it on, first the RAM wasn't quite in far enough, then when I tried turning it on again a wire came close to a fan and made the worse noise I had ever heard, I seriously almost passed out thinking about what that noise could be. I thought my computer was self destructing. I don't ever want to touch the inside of a computer again after that. :arghh::arghh::arghh:

 

[David Brown]

If I cant sauter the wires in, then I'll have to just live with the 7500 LE I guess. Its not a bad card, but FPS is a little bit low in NR2003 with it.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Hey, you live near me. Aside from that...

The Nvidia cards in the 9000 range are really good. What are you trying to achieve and why have you chosen this card?

 

[David Brown]

I live in Marietta on weekdays now that I'm in college. Aside from that..

I considered those, but any decent card like those would have the same problem, motherboard maker was pretty dumb to put the plugs there. The reason I chose the 260 was price. The 9000 series looked good, but the 260 was only slightly more, like $30 for a newer card with more GDDR memory, 896 mb vs 512 mb. I don't really have any graphically intense games now, but I'd like to get MW2 down the road a couple months. My friend has 2 8800 GTS's and he can't even max out the graphics on that game, so my 7500 would struggle just to run it in min settings I'm thinking.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

You have to take into consideration what your computer can handle. If you don't have the ram or processor than your just putting a $300 saddle on a $50 horse. Understand?

 

[David Brown]

everything else is good for the card, 4 GB RAM, Q6600 Quad Core, 700 Watt power supply.

 

[David Brown]

I did a ton of research into my computer before doing this, I can tell you just about anything you need to know about it, only thing I wasn't planning on were those wire plugs. The card was huge, but I measured where it was going to go and it fit, I just overlooked those plugs :arghh::arghh:.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Have you bought the card? It might work like a charm. Did you build this computer or did you buy it from Dell or what not?

 

[David Brown]

Gateway, I got the card, tried putting it in myself till I ran into that problem. I aint the type to rush into anything for the computer, measure 4 times, measure again, then cut once.
I never saw the plugs being an issue though, they arent even behind the PCI graphics card slot, they're above it behind the device for the wireless internet, its just the graphics card takes 2 slots, so the fan casing comes up and hits it. Can those plugs be removed from the wires and the wires just sautered onto the motherboard where they're supposed to connect? The wireless internet device can be moved to another slot, so its no issue.

 

[jaymziz]

you have to take into consideration what your computer can handle. If you don't have the ram or processor than your just putting a $300 saddle on a $50 horse. Understand?

awesome!!!! Lol