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Found an old graphics card

shaneh890

I found an old graphics card in a box at my parents place. It’s a GeForce 8600 gt. I was wondering what would happen if I put it in my pc just to see how it runs? Also if I did would could I just plug it into another pci express slot or would I have to remove my current graphics card

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I doubt there's been a driver released for that card in many years. It might work, but it's not going to do a whole lot.

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It uses PCIe, so it'd probably work just fine if you had the drivers installed for it, though the latest driver for it is from 2016. If your current card is also an NVIDIA card, you'd probably need to uninstall those drivers, first.

 

I'm pretty certain that card is gen 1 PCIe, so using anything less than a x16 slot would likely significantly hold it back with newer games, assuming it could play those. GeForce 8 only supports up to D3D10 iirc.

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I run an 8800GT on my old PC and it works fine in Windows but I don't game on it...

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