Good Evening, This is Mark Griffin, KB3Z
I am including my HP Computer Specifications and am looking for suggestions for a compatible Graphics Card that would work well with a Flex 6300 or 6500.
HF Envy QE
Windows 8.1 64
Intel I7-4790 Quad Core, 3.66 HZ 8 mb shared Cache
12 GB DDR3-1600 MHZ 2-Dimm
2 TB 7200 RPM Sata HD
16 GB MSata SSD Cache
Intel Integrated Graphics
500 W. Power Supply
Super Multi DVD Burner
HP WLan 802-11 B/G/N 1x1 mcard
15 in 1 multi slot card reader with 6 USB Ports
Integrated Sound/Beats Audio
I am including my HP Computer Specifications and am looking for suggestions for a compatible Graphics Card that would work well with a Flex 6300 or 6500.
HF Envy QE
Windows 8.1 64
Intel I7-4790 Quad Core, 3.66 HZ 8 mb shared Cache
12 GB DDR3-1600 MHZ 2-Dimm
2 TB 7200 RPM Sata HD
16 GB MSata SSD Cache
Intel Integrated Graphics
500 W. Power Supply
Super Multi DVD Burner
HP WLan 802-11 B/G/N 1x1 mcard
15 in 1 multi slot card reader with 6 USB Ports
Integrated Sound/Beats Audio
Posted 3 years ago
K6OZY, Elmer
K6OZY, Elmer
With the 1.4 update it seems like a less powerful graphics card is required.
But, Tim, W4TME wrote an article on graphics cards but not sure where I found it.
I remember he recommended a card that had a 1000 passmark ranking or better.
But, Tim, W4TME wrote an article on graphics cards but not sure where I found it.
I remember he recommended a card that had a 1000 passmark ranking or better.
Tim - W4TME, Customer Experience Manager
K6OZY, Elmer
I understand where there are core basics to look for when purchasing a graphics card that would be compatible with the Flex 6000 series. But, more or less I am looking for the models that people are using that work. For example, the HD 7770, HD 7790 GTX 760 etc. I went out to tigerdirect.com and there are graphic cards galore. But it seems that they do not carry the model #'s that are compatible with the Flex. I wrote Neal (K3NC) and he forwarded by message to customer service, but I never heard anything as to actual video cards that would work with my computer and the Flex.
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Tim - W4TME, Customer Experience Manager
Mark - we cannot and will not tell you which specific card to buy. Whether or not a particular video card will work for you in a particular machine with your unique operating system configuration is not something we can predict, nor will we try. The best we can do is tell you what core basic features and minimum performance levels to look for and in those rare cases where we KNOW a card will not work, we notify you of that. To do any more or less than that would be irresponsible of us.
I suggest you buy either a card with an NVIDIA or AMD chipset, use the minimum recommendations we publish, don't buy one that is known not to work list (see the link in Sergey's post), get one that fits your price range and will use the open bus slot in your PC. I suspect there is a 99.999999999% chance it will work well. Also get one from a dealer that has a good return policy. If on the rare chance it does not work well, return it for a different one,
I suggest you buy either a card with an NVIDIA or AMD chipset, use the minimum recommendations we publish, don't buy one that is known not to work list (see the link in Sergey's post), get one that fits your price range and will use the open bus slot in your PC. I suspect there is a 99.999999999% chance it will work well. Also get one from a dealer that has a good return policy. If on the rare chance it does not work well, return it for a different one,
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I went out and bought a amd r7 260x which had great numbers and was a perfect fit until I started to use it. I would get a lack screen and lock up. Two of my friends bought the same card to run with their flex 6500 and ran into the same issues. The tech support for the card manufactor MSI remotes in ran test and declared it was not the card but the radio. I researched the Internet and found other cases of the black screen with games. End result was a Nuvidia gtx 750i great card all problems gone . So do not buy this card three of us found this out with a very expensive mistake.
I purchased the R9 270 and have not had any problems.
