Need cheap video card for older computer.

[trouper]

I have an older Athlon 1.2 gig pc and my video card is on the fritz and needs to be replaced. It's a Nvidia Geoforce 4 MX 420. I don't know if it was the best card or anything, but it was good enough, while it worked. It was actually a free replacement for my original Nvidia card that also crapped out on me. So now I need a new card, and since I don't keep up on this kind of stuff I have no idea what to look at. If there is something like slightly better than what I had, and maybe not Nvidia since they don't last for me, I'd like to know. I'm not looking for a $200 video card, just something to do the job. Any suggestions? Ideally I'd like to keep it under $75 or even cheaper, and I'm not a big gamer either. Thanks.

 

[sisq0kidd]

$75 should get you a 9800 pro if you look hard enough on these forums.

If not, $75 should get you a 9700 pro.

If not, $60 should get you a 9600xt.

Good luck.

 

[Conky]

Look at this place LINK Look under "Cables and Misc.". You can get a Geforce4 for $19.99 and they have a lot of other cards for cheap for old systems. :thumbsup:

 

[Zimdesign]

I just replaced my Radeon 9600 Pro (built by ATI) with this 6600GT . Sounds like my old 9600 might be a good card for you 🙂

 

[BlacKJesuS]

Originally posted by: trouper
I have an older Athlon 1.2 gig pc and my video card is on the fritz and needs to be replaced. It's a Nvidia Geoforce 4 MX 420. I don't know if it was the best card or anything, but it was good enough, while it worked. It was actually a free replacement for my original Nvidia card that also crapped out on me. So now I need a new card, and since I don't keep up on this kind of stuff I have no idea what to look at. If there is something like slightly better than what I had, and maybe not Nvidia since they don't last for me, I'd like to know. I'm not looking for a $200 video card, just something to do the job. Any suggestions? Ideally I'd like to keep it under $75 or even cheaper, and I'm not a big gamer either. Thanks.

$25 shipped for my mx420 😀

 

[svadas]

Which one would be a good replacement for my card? Since my computer is so old, I'm worried about overspending since I am stuck with AGP.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: svadas
Which one would be a good replacement for my card? Since my computer is so old, I'm worried about overspending since I am stuck with AGP.

You should post to your own thread and actually NAME your old video, and the type of AGP you have.


:frown:

 

[svadas]

Nvidia Geoforce 4 MX 420

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: svadas
Nvidia Geoforce 4 MX 420

we need rest of system to compare to. a 9800 will be wasted no a 1.1ghz p3. a ti4600 will be bottlenecking a 3.0ghz p4.

 

[buzzsaw13]

If you don't play any of the "newer" games you should be fine with buying a Radeon 8500 from someone in the forums.