Waste of money of small agp life extension....

[harper812]

I am trying to squeak the last bit of life out of my old socket 754 agp setup. Currently I have an Athlon 3200 DTR w/ a NVidia 6600GT. When I built it I was playing games fairly regularly and it handled any game at the time, but then I stopped gaming so I never bothered to upgrade anything. Plus shortly after building it is when pci-e and 939 was taking over and I didn't want to replace everything. So anyway I noticed the other day that ATI has a card for agp, the 4650 and wondering if I should bother or will my CPU just bottle neck it anyway. I am not a serious gamer, just a casual and would like to play some of the new games coming out. So thoughts/opinions, would it be worth the $100?

 

[error8]

There really isn't any sense in doing this. For just a few bucks you can make yourself a decent system.

 

[Modular]

Pony up the extra $300 and get a whole new system.

 

[Stumps]

hmmm a couple of cards come to mind that might be worth while

ATI: X1950 pro
2600xt
4650 (currently more expensive than the other two cards)

Nvidia: 7800GS
7600GT

these are the only cards that might be a worth while upgrade to your current 6600GT, however you could just go all out and get a 3850 they are starting to get reasonably cheap these days AU$150ish but it would be pretty much as wasted on your system.

my pick for your system would probably be a 2600XT or the 4650 the other cards are older and only do DX9, although an X1950 Pro is still a formidible AGP card when paired with the right CPU....<looks at 3.33ghz C2D AGP rig sitting in corner with a Sapphire X1950pro in it>

Just a thought...

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: harper812 would it be worth the $100?

no

 

[Sylvanas]

Not worth it better off keeping what you have or getting a new system.

 

[Fox5]

AMD dual cores can often be found for as low as $40, pick up an AM2 motherboard for $50, you can find 4GB DDR2 on sale for $20-$30, and then a $100 video card would get you something a heck of a lot faster.

Most new games aren't even playable on single cores...

 

[RussianSensation]

Not worth it at all.

You can get a motherboard, 4GBs of DDR2 ram and a dual core X2 Phenom or E6300 for ~ $200 and then add another $120-130 to get a GTX260 / 4870 you will be flying!

Your cpu is a major bottleneck.

 

[RussianSensation]

DP.