Graphics Card help please

[zoljin]

Hello everybody so I have been playing the Warhammer online beta and feel that my computer just doesnt do it , ive ordered new ram and now im looking at a new graphics card. I appreciate any help I can get as I am no expert at computers.

within the price range 0-150 euro.

Heres my current setup:

OS:
Windows XP Home

CPU :
3,00 gigahertz Intel Pentium
CPU socket: Socket 478 mPGA

Motherboard:
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Blazer 1.xx
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 3.28 08/27/2004
North Bridge: Intel i865P/PE/G/i848P Rev. A2
South Bridge: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) Rev. A2
System slots: 6 PCI, 1 AGP

Current Card:
Display Adapter: Sapphire RADEON X1600 PRO
Video Processor: Radeon X1600 Series AGP
Video memory size: 256 megabytes
Adapter DAC type: Internal DAC (400 mhz)

Probably a bunch of irrelevant info there but I really dont want to end up buying the wrong card so I took the extra precautions!

I APPRECIATE ANY AND ALL HELP

Cheers,
Alex

 

[LinkedKube]

looks like your board supports agpx4. Not many if not any at all 3rd party companies sell those. You may be able to find something on ebay though.

 

[EXCellR8]

You're going to be limited with the older hardware but it's still possible to have a decent setup with an AGP or even a PCI graphics card. Unfortunately, the higher-end AGP cards like the 7900GS and the 7950GT aren't in production anymore and could be difficult to find. I believe there exists an nVidia 8000 series PCI card but I could be wrong, perhaps made by Sparkle? There are still some decent AGP cards on the market, but for the most part everything is PCI-E now.

 

[nickc]

looks like your board supports agpx4. Not many if not any at all 3rd party companies sell those. You may be able to find something on ebay though.

any AGP card will work in those slots, although that is not to say his computer will run the game as he wants.

 

[zoljin]

hmmmm hang on a sec

 

[zoljin]

Would this work??

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD2600Pro 512MB - TV-Ut / DVI (AGP)

http://www.sapphiretech.com/us/products/products_overview.php?gpid=180&grp=2

# 390 million transistors on 65nm fabrication process
# 128-bit DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
# Ring Bus Memory Controller
# Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
# Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0
# Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
# Anti-aliasing features
# Texture filtering features
# ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform

 

[zoljin]

or this one

MSI GeForce 7600GT 512MB (NX7600GT-TD512) - AGP / TV-Ut / DVI


Features:
• OpenGL 2.0 Optimizations and Support
• NVIDIA® nView® Multi-Display Technology
• NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control® 3.0 Technology
• Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
• Dual-Link DVI Support
• 90nm Process Technology
• Built for Microsoft® Windows™ Vista

Only thing that concerns me is the built for Windows Vista

 

[nickc]

neither one of those will really be a gaming card, but either should be better than what u had.

 

[zoljin]

What about this one!

Club3D ATI Radeon HD3850 AGP Edition 512MB (CGA-3852DD) - AGP / DVI / TV-Ut


Features:
Performance
- GPU: ATI RV670
- GPU speed: 668 MHz
- Shaders: 320 stream
- Memory Size: 512 MB
- Memory Type: GDDR3
- Memory Speed: 1656 MHz
- Memory Bandwidth: 256 BIT
- Multi VGA Ready: 0
- DirectX: 10
- OpenGL: 2
- DVI dual link: 2
- TV-out
- HDTV 720p/1080i
- HDTV / /720p/1080p
- HDCP
- Cooling: Active
- PCB size: Full size
- Format: AGP

 

[zoljin]

also opened up my pc and found out some info on my PSU

Its a Delta Electronics
Model : DPS- 460 DB
and has a max output of 460 W

would this be efficient for the above graphics card?

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Your PSU provides a total of 32A on the +12V rails combined, more than enough for the HD 3850. You're good to go.

 

[zoljin]

thanks for all the help im the new happy owner of a HD 3850

 

[nickc]

I am happy u found a good card, and I think u will be happy with that card.