video recommendation for a friend

[AzNPinkTuv]

heres the deal, he runs a dell dimension 4600 with a p4 2.66 ghz 533 thingy...

neways he has integrated and his birthdya is coming up soon and his rents wanna buy him a video card and ram. sad to say hes on AGP. but his comp is also like 2-3 years old

he currrently has 256 ram too.

im thinking on telling him to get a 6800gs of some sort and ill see if i can toss him some of my left over 1 gig for a cheaper price... what do you guy think...


any input is good


i hear the x800xl agp's are avail again too but havent looked into it


his budget is around 200 as well +- 10-15%?

 

[luigionlsd]

Watch out for the PSU. My friend has a Dimension 8300 with a P4 2.6, but he has 512 RAM. I just recently set him up with a 9800 Pro, and it seems to be good so far. All he needs is another 512-1gb of RAM and he's good to go (for Oblivion and WoW, and some random RTSes).

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

bump


btw he also plays FPS's and Action games.. no MMOS.

 

[RussianSensation]

Something like 6800 non ultra , 6600GT would be cheaper options. Otherwise X800GTO for $170 on Newegg or X800XL/6800GT/GS if he can find them cheap.

1 gig of ram is key too. Otherwise there is not much he can do with 2.66ghz on a dell mobo as far as I heard.

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

these gto's unlock? neways thnks.. any more suggestions are good

 

[RussianSensation]

X800XL

The gto's dont unlock as far as I know. But the core overclocks to 500+.