AGP upgrade.

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Chomps

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So I've got a 2.8 P4 HT, 2gigs, geforce 6800 gs/xt, 400w power supply ( which I could switch out with a 480 watt if necessary.), xp pro. If ya need more info, ask.

Question is, my best slot is a AGP, got the 6800 in it now. I've looked around and found from 512 and 1gig video cards.

For example,

http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Rado...ef=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1255976558&sr=8-2-fkmr0

http://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Geforc...ie=UTF8&s=miscellaneous&qid=1255976633&sr=8-7


I'd rather just put a better card in this machine, maybe another stick of ram or two, than buy a new comp. My concern is that the card will get bottle-necked. Limited in it's processing by the weakness of the other components, board, cpu, what not. Course I'm just guessing here. Can anyone clear things up?
 
It might get bottlenecked, that P4 is really a bad point. If I were you I'd go with the 4650, but don't expect sparkles.

After reading some reviews, the 4650 is quite a good card, or even amazing knowing the AGP. You might be some games at decent settings you know :]
 
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So the main limiting factor is the p4, it being a single core? Not the board or anything? And say I go 4650, should I pop the 480 in there or even get something stronger?
 
It's just old CPU, and not being dual cored CPU is one of the thing, but also there different things that limit, very detailed ones like cache etc. Depends on the PSU make, if you have good, Corsair, Antec or such 400watter I'd stick with it, but if it is some cheap china made PSU I'd go with 480w.
 
OK, well thanks for some input. Difference between 1gig and 512 means more power demand I imagine. That is, the 1gig will have larger power demand than the 512?
 
I douldnt waste money on 1GB GPU if I had 20' monitor. More RAM on GPU is demanded when playing games in high resolution.

We are talking about one digit voltage here more or less :]
 
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