what graphic card sutites me?

[talset]

system:
microsoft windows xp professinal
version 2002
service pack2

computer:intel celron d
cpu 2800 GHz
512 ram

pci slots

i want a graphic card for games i got a medium budget just give me a list of medium priced graphic cards and high priced ones that are good

chipset:north bride:intel 865g chipset
southbridege intel ich5

expansion slot -3 x pci slots
1 x agp slot for 1.5 8x/4x agp card
1 x amr slot

audio cmedia 9761a 5.1 channel audio codec


i just bought this comp 1 month ago so i still had the booklet it came with

 

[Eddie_42]

pci or pci-express

your going to have a hard time if its only pci

 

[paulrush81]

how much you want to spend is the question, the more the merrier. £100 will get you a medium ati or nvidea ive got an x700 pro ati for £100 its good, i play bf2 and others and graphics are good and smooth.
look around for good deals and make sure you get agp/ pci-e as required as they are not compatable

 

[talset]

video cards

i got 400 baht which is 130 dollars us but i live in asia so stuff is cheap
i got only pci slots

 

[Eddie_42]

ok....unfortunatly PCI isnt the best method for video cards however there are still a few options.

depending of the northbridge of your mainboard you will either have ATI or Nvidia

I would strongly recommend staying in the same family of chips just for simplicity.

for an ATI about the best you can do is the 9250; and for Nvidia id go with the FX5500 either of those will come with 128MB and maybe 256.

You wont be able to play top notch games life half life 2 and BF2. You should be able to get away with Halo 1, age of empires 2, COD 1, and that generation of games. Mostly the stuff that retails for $20-$30 US.

id strongly recommend looking into getting a new motherboard with at least and AGP if not PCI. They should be about $80 for the board and you can get a decent card like geforce 6600 for about $115.

 

[KingCody]

Hi talset and welcome to TechSpot

currently, the best PCI video card is the BFG Tech 3DFuzion FX6200. it only costs $28 USD on newegg (i know you cant buy from newegg, but you should still be able to get it for well below your $130 budget)

it should allow you to play most modern games at low settings, maybe some games on medium at best.

cheers :wave:

 

[wolfram]

Yes, the 6200 PCI is faster than any FX5500 or 9200 series.

 

[talset]

graphic card

well thanks guys i got a geforce 5200 fx graphic card right now 128 mb the games i play are fable the lost chapters
gta san andreas
war hammer 40k dawn of war
are there any sites like www.srtest.com for graphic cards?