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Advise me a high quality AGP 8x Graphics card please....

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Merry Crimble everyone...

Building a basic desktop for my daughter and am using leftovers that I have accumilated over the years.

All she wants it for is to play `The Sims 3` and the `Pets` expansion pack.

Got..
`PC Chips M870 - version 2.0` motherboard (754 socket).
An Athlon x64 CPU.
PSU 300w.
2 x 1GB Memory.
40GB HHD.
Case.

Now all I need to run these games is a decent Graphics Card `AGP 8X` have not got a clue with these (as was before I got into building)
All I know is the specs `Sims` requires..

FOR WINDOWS XP
2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
1 GB RAM
128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games

Windows Supported Video Cards
NVIDIA GeForce series

FX 5900, FX 5950
6200, 6500, 6600, 6800
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
9300, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800
G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150
GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295

ATI Radeon™ series

9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900
3450, 3650, 3850, 3870
4850, 4870



http://gb.thesims3.com/game/systemreq

What would be the best AGP 8X card to look for that would work with my existing components..???

Any help on this...???

Thanks..
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
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Oh thought I would mention that the Games were a Christmas present and as yet she has not been able to play yet, so any input would be grateful..

Ta.
 
I believe you can get an AGP 4670 if you look around. This will be more than enough for Sims 3. Shouldn't stress the 300w power supply too much either but what model is it?
 
reflux said:
6600GT, good card in its day
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Hope so, going through ebay didnt shed any light and reading about agp cards is a blur.... just need to keep my daughter happy before she spills the beans on my `rig details` to `you know who`, some would call it blackmail....from an 11 year old.... :eek::eek::eek:
 
If its anything like The Sims 2 it is probably CPU limited anyway. I had a look at some benchmarks and an A64 4000+ seemed to really struggle so on a S754 chip you will want to be running it on low settings.
 
The best AGP was an HD3850 512MB afaik. But these do command a slight price premium because of that fact. I'm not sure if nvidia made anything in the 8 series graphics cards in an AGP, but certainly in earlier series' than that AGP is available.
 
Dangerous_Dave said:
The best AGP was an HD3850 512MB afaik. But these do command a slight price premium because of that fact. I'm not sure if nvidia made anything in the 8 series graphics cards in an AGP, but certainly in earlier series' than that AGP is available.
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were the HD 3850's the last AGP cards?
 
I had the x1950pro 512mb AGP. That was quite a good card in its day but I think that needed 450w PSU. I too had the 6600GT and that was an ok card but in between those 2, I had a 7600GT. Now that was a good card and very overlooked/under-rated. It was quite close to the x1950pro in most games and much faster than the 6600gt. You might be able to get one of those for next to nothing. It has to be the GT version though, the standard 7600 is a completley different card. IIRC the 7600gt was a scaled down 7800.

I gave up waiting for the 3850 AGP and went PCI-E
 
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