vistakid10
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Hey all, I'm new to the forum.
I've got an older system (not the one in my signature) which had a Sapphire Radeon X800 XT Platinum AGP graphics card in it. Sadly it has died on me, not really surprising after about 6 or so years' use (it's on eBay now as spares/repair) but I need to replace it as I have on-board video on this system. I'm not sure what to replace it with though as AGP graphics cards are a bit before my day if you like (I did not build this system, it got given to me a couple of months ago). Which AGP card would work well with an Athlon 64 3700+, 1GB DDR RAM and a 425W PSU? I don't mind if it's ATI or NVIDIA. I am looking along the lines of another Radeon X800 or possibly a GeForce 6600 or a 6800... are these the sort of lines I should be looking along? I'd like 256MB+ RAM ideally as I want to try and keep the PC as original as possible. The motherboard (which is a Gigabye K8VT800 Pro by the way) does also have PCI slots, but no PCI Express, only PCI and AGP, but I think AGP is faster than PCI if I remember correctly?
Thanks.
I've got an older system (not the one in my signature) which had a Sapphire Radeon X800 XT Platinum AGP graphics card in it. Sadly it has died on me, not really surprising after about 6 or so years' use (it's on eBay now as spares/repair) but I need to replace it as I have on-board video on this system. I'm not sure what to replace it with though as AGP graphics cards are a bit before my day if you like (I did not build this system, it got given to me a couple of months ago). Which AGP card would work well with an Athlon 64 3700+, 1GB DDR RAM and a 425W PSU? I don't mind if it's ATI or NVIDIA. I am looking along the lines of another Radeon X800 or possibly a GeForce 6600 or a 6800... are these the sort of lines I should be looking along? I'd like 256MB+ RAM ideally as I want to try and keep the PC as original as possible. The motherboard (which is a Gigabye K8VT800 Pro by the way) does also have PCI slots, but no PCI Express, only PCI and AGP, but I think AGP is faster than PCI if I remember correctly?
Thanks.