Good enough for friend?

[Warriorhazzard]

Is the nVidia FX5500 128MB good enough to run the latest Americas Army 2.8?

3-D graphics card with 256mb+ memory and support for hardware
transformation and lighting
3.0 GHz processor or equivalent
English version of Windows(r) 2000/XP Operating System with latest updates
1gb RAM
3.5gb of uncompressed hard disk space for game files
DVD-ROM (not required for downloaded installations)
Windows 2000/XP compatible system (including compatible 32-bit drivers for video card, sound card, mouse and keyboard)
DirectX(r)9.0
100% Compatible DirectX 9.0 soundcard
Broadband Network Connection
*NVIDIA(r) nForce(tm) or other motherboards/soundcards

He has an HP Pavilion a705W. Will it work with the VGA card?

 

[unknownm]

Do you know if the motherboard looks like this? Miss the AGP slot

9250 PCI with 128-bit / 256MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814103167

X1300 PCI with 128-bit / 256MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814103016

The only diffrence between the X1300 and 9250 is,
X1300 supports Shader model 3.0 and DX9 compared to Shader model 1.3 and DX8 that the 9250 supports

 

[Warriorhazzard]

Do you know if the motherboard looks like this? Miss the AGP slot

9250 PCI with 128-bit / 256MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814103167

X1300 PCI with 128-bit / 256MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814103016

The only diffrence between the X1300 and 9250 is,
X1300 supports Shader model 3.0 and DX9 compared to Shader model 1.3 and DX8 that the 9250 supports

Yes I just checked it and it does look like that. Sadly he doesnt have a big budget of $100 so is the card I said a good one for running that game that I quoted in my first post?

 

[diduknowthat]

It'll have to do, as the newer PCI cards, x1300 and 6200 are all over $100. Anyways, just make sure you get a PCI version of the fx5500.