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I want a new videocard, i don't need the best card available because i'm going to buy a new pc in Januari 2007.
Price: 125 euro's max.
Current specs:
Jetway V266B (AGP 4x)
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz)
512 MB ram
Creative Live! 5.1
GeForce4 MX 4000
I have no idea which one i should buy,
I think that the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT 128MB would be good, but me is a hardware noob :P
AGP 4x will be a big limiting factor.
Why do you want to upgrade? Can't the one you have serve until the new PC?
Because the fps i have on the latest Counterstrike: Source maps is below 30 :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
I know the jetway supports SDRAM and DDR. Is your current RAM DDR type? If not, that could be another bottleneck.
IKE you should just save up and get a whole new system. :blink:
ditto.Quote:
Originally Posted by Linkin Park
you can probably find an nvidia fx card that supports regular pci.
Why? Regular PCI is even slower than AGP 4X.Quote:
Originally Posted by Formula1
ok.. well then i guess that this 6600gt must support agp 4x, it says agp 4x/8x..?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130220
and also last time i checked the euro was worth more than usd, so i think he may be able to afford this...
Yeah but running at 4X doesn't let it work at full performance.
i don't know.. how can i check this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
so it's possible that a new videocard won't improve my fps much?
The MX4000 isn't bad in terms of performance, about equal to the low end of the FX series, but it doesn't have the features required for DirectX 9.
So with a better card you may be able to play a few games (at minimal settings) which aren't currently available to you, but in order to improve your frame rate by more than a few fps you probably need more bandwidth, and with only 4x AGP it simply isn't there.