6600 GT AGP

[pentiumobile]

I am going to buy this card but I have a couple of scenarios:

First My PC

Dimension 8200
P4@2GHZ 400FSB
768MB RDRAM@ 400MHZ
Geforce Ti4400
The mobo is AGP 4X


1) Can I buy a 6600GT AGP for this PC (the mobo is not 8x). Will reduce its speed to 4X?

2) Does my PC is prehistoric or it can handle another 1.5 year of games?

3) Did the 6600GT will make and incredible performance boost over the crappy 4400?

4) Will you spend 1100$ on a new PC or buy the card, sacrifice performance, but then buy a super faster PC 1.5 years later.

5) Does the 4X AGP will slow the card too much?

 

[ts3433]

You can run any current AGP8x card on a 4x board (they're backwards compatible) unless the board maker did something they're not supposed to. You shouldn't experience much of any performance decrease. That CPU might limit you a bit, though. That said, if your system can take advantage of it, a 6600GT is leaps and bounds above a Ti4400.

 

[flamingspinach]

4x, 8x, same thing at this point. Don't worry about that.

Not prehistoric, I think you'll do OK if you don't mind playing in a medium resolution like 1024x768 (personally I like gaming in 800x600 so... )

Yes. Yes it will be much better than the 4400. But the 4400 is still okay if you don't mind mediocre but bearable graphics quality in today's games.

Personally I think it's not yet really necessary to upgrade anything, you have a decent system - maybe wait another year or so, then upgrade the whole thing.

No, 4x will not slow the card at all. The possibilities of 8x have not even been explored yet.

-fs

 

[Rip the Jacker]

go fer it.

 

[pentiumobile]

I like Flight Simulator 2k4 thats the game i want to play most With the Ti4400 i can play with almost everything max(20-22 FPS). The only thing that kills the FPS are clowds.

Can I play this game really well?

 

[boatillo]

PCI-e = teh sux

The most demanding games/apps out today can only use up to 3.8x AGP

Oh and the 6600GT will rock any of the previous generation of video cards (Geforce 5xxx and the Ati 9xxx). The fastest card from that gen (Ati Radeon 9800XT) barely holds a candle to the 6600GT in games like Doom3 and Halflife2

 

[Spikesoldier]

look for a powerleap adapter and buy a 2.8 400fsb p4 also

BUT i would just scrap the computer if i was you, but thats just me though.