thebigdintx
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I have a Dell Dimension 3000, and was considering upgrading the motherboard in it to the Dimension 4600's motherboard because the 3000 only has PCI slots, and the 4600 has an AGP 8x slot. I'm not going to try any other upgrade board (even though I would like to get PCI-e) because the 4600 is supposed to be an easy swap-out for the 3000, and I can still use my same CPU and RAM. Now, onto my question. Would it be worth it to upgrade from a PCI video card to an AGP one? I don't do any gaming, but wanted to do the upgrade to increase my systems' performance while websurfing graphic intensive pages, webcaming, and doing some minor video editing. I am hoping to do my first build later this year and do the core 2 duo and PCI express thing, but just wanted to upgrade this one to keep around as a second computer for a while. Any thoughts?
Edit: As a side note, I can upgrade the motherboard for about $60-80, then would just have to buy the APG 8x 256MB video card.....so total upgrade maybe about $150 I guess.
Edit: As a side note, I can upgrade the motherboard for about $60-80, then would just have to buy the APG 8x 256MB video card.....so total upgrade maybe about $150 I guess.