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Acona

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Hi All,
I am a newbie here. Can anyone recommend a reasonable video card for use with an Abit KW7 motherboard. The KW7 has 1 AGP slot 8X/4x and 5 PCI slots.
The reason for the question is that I have been given Medal of Honour - Pacific Assault which I want to play as I lived for many years on Tarawa atoll where the final battle of Pacific Assault takes place and apparently it is pretty good and the on board graphics of the KW7 won't handle it.
I am not looking for anything very flash as my budget can't afford it but I just want a card that allows me to play some reasonable games.
Thanks in advance

Acona


You may be right, but not in the head

Win XP
3G DDR Ram
AMD Athlon XP 2.07 Ghz
1 20G HD + 1 30G HDD
320G External HDD
Abit KW7 M/B
 
Well, your motherboard would have an AGP slot, and that is quite an old CPU. Depending on what kind of system you have, the power supply might not be able to cope with a dedicated card aswell.
 
Thanks Guys. It looks as though the 4670 may be the way to go. I don't want to spend much over $150.

Bill
 
Not enough CPU to play games, even if you could get a 4890 in an AGP slot. You need a dual core to play any decent game, I've tried it. Before I ugraded my motherboard to an AM3, I had the same gts250 video card, 2X2gb of 1066 memory, and the best AM2 athlon single core at 3.0 ghz and it had 1mb of L2 cache. Had bad lag playing call of duty world at war. Swapped to a 4400+ dual core at 2.2ghz which had 2X512kb of L2 cache, played it no lag no problem. Didn't matter that I had a decent video card, CPU just couldn't hack it. Save your money on buying an AGP card, and put it toward a complete new system.
I know your budget is tight, but you can build a decent low end (but new) system for ~ $300 that would crush your current setup.

If you can re-use your current hard drives it will work, you'll probably need a SATA dvd drive though if you are using IDE hard drives though because all new motherboards only have 1 IDE port.

Motherboard-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157153

CPU-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103688

Ram-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820159015

Power supply-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817339025

Video card-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814141081

And here's a SATA dvd burner-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151188

That all adds up to $275, with shipping it's still under $300 for a really great setup on the cheap. This system will be so fast compared to your current setup you won't know how to act.

If you are really stuck are just getting a video card, and trying to play the game, I recommend the power supply I listed above plus this video card-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151188

Highly recommend you don't waste your money though, the CPU will not handle it...I'd bet a hundred bucks on it.
 
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Yeah. I was in your shoes back in April. But AGP cards are hard to find, and
when you find one, the price is ridiculous. There's no point investing that
much money in old technology. If you're going to spend $100, put it to a
system that can use PCI-E 16x graphic card.

You can get a value gaming system for like $200. Salvage your Win XP,
hard-drives, tower and psu.

Buy new motherboard, CPU, ram. Find a used graphic card on craigslist.

Motherboard with PCI-E 16x slot - $60
AMD CPU, dual-core 2 x 2.5ghz, and cooler - $65
2GB 800mhz ram - $30
Used Nvidia 7600GT - $25
----------------------------------------------
Total: $180

And you should be able to squeeze that into your old case, hook up
your previous CD/DVD player and hard-drives. If your current power
supply is too small, get a $40 case that includes 400W or 500W
psu.
 
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A 7600gt is poop, they only use directx9. Newegg used to have an 8600gts for $50 and I would have recommended that but they deactivated it. The 4670 I listed, although it's $65, is triple the performance of a 7600gt.
Actually Geeks.com used to have refurbished 8800gts'_320mb for $60, now that was a superb deal. I used to have an 8800gts, it was my first decent video card. It played every game I have, my gts250 can just play them at better FPS. Now everybody will want such a large card though, it's pretty large.

Also, the CPU I listed is the best CPU on the cheap currently. Athlon II 2.8ghz for $60, can't beat that right now. Sounds like you are talking about the 7550 kuma core, which is Phenom technology but he'd be better off with an athlon II...less heat, less power consumption, just as much processing power. Just newer technology in general=better when it comes to CPU's.
 
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Thanks 87dna, I will got down the track of items that you reccomend. Unfortunately Newegg does not ship oversea and I live In Australia. I am having a bit of difficulty sourcing equivalents here as nobody here seems to stock ASRock of Biostar components but I will keep looking.

Bill
 
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