Buying new vid card for Dad

[krueL]

my dads ti4200 is struggling to stay alive. so im on a search for a decent cheap and comparable (if not better) video card to the one he had before, i was searching on tigerdirect and i found this.. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...&Tab=2&NoMapp=0 how do you think that would par up to his current 128mb TI4200?

Thanks,
Chad

 

[Cooler]

is it a pci card or agp ?

 

[krueL]

both cards are AGP

 

[Cooler]

get a 9800 ATI card for about $90 that should last a while.

 

[krueL]

my dad is kinda tight with his money.. if ya know waht i mean, it took a lot to convice him to get the 5500... but as far as my question tho.. is that ANY kind of jump? as long as its equal to or greater than is all that really matters

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: krueL
my dad is kinda tight with his money.. if ya know waht i mean, it took a lot to convice him to get the 5500... but as far as my question tho.. is that ANY kind of jump? as long as its equal to or greater than is all that really matters

the FX is step back from ti4200 you need to get one 9600+ ATI cards or nvidia 6600GT

 

[krueL]

"the FX is step back from ti4200"

Thank you, EXACTLY what i needed to know =]

 

[tuteja1986]

9600pro ago $60ish >> 9800pro $80ish >> x800gt/6600GT AGp $120

 

[mindless1]

We seem to have a massive lack of information here.

Does your dad game?
If so, what games does he play, new, old, all, what?

What resolution does he use? How much eye candy?

If he's not a gamer, you're being ridiculous, the TI4200 was already way overkill and you would do fine to pick up any old thing that has reasonably crisp 2D output and was made in this century.