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AGP Nvidia Fx5200 Upgrade

aflie

aflie

aflie

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Hiya's

Hope you all had a nice christmas.
I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card. Whats the best graphic card my PC could hope for. I play games in 800x600 with all settings low (think thats something to do with my awesome PC :p ) Would like a graphics card that gives me high fps also easy to install without having to upgrade my entire PC, Moneys not a issue.

Many thanks to all whom reply.
 
hi, i think for your spec, i would recommend;

leadtek - 7600GS or 7600GT, take a look and decide how much you want to spend.

these will be a massive increase over a 5200!!

edit, that lowly power supply may struggle so id be tempted by the 7600GS...
 
Hi,

Welcome to the forums,

Maybe something like a 7600gs, and the difference would still be huge and wouldn't be too much for your system to handle

Edit: beaten :p Agree 7600gs though, gt maybe that little bit too much for the psu!
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Yeah you should upgrade ** psu to at least 400w for good safety margin.
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Yes looking at the margins between 7600GS or 7600GT is mouth watering, Bundled with Serious Sam 2 :p Could make a person upgrade the PSU. But i dont seem to have much knowledge or luck with electronics.
 
Yes your right, so if i upgrade the PSU where would the bottleneck be on my system. What would be next best card for my machine.
I need convincing :)

Thanks
 
Ok if i were you and had some cash spare id get another 512mb ram a 400 or 430w psu, like a akasa or somit, nice good one tho higher watts will help in long run depending on quality. Get a xXXXX ati card or a 7600gt or better. Tho seems x1950pro is best price/performance ratio at the mo for medium/highend range.
 
Buy a new psu, 400/500w should be plenty, then buy either a 7600gt or a x1950pro - im assuming you use agp btw?

Then the only possible bottleneck will be your cpu, so give this a little overclock to squeeze a bit more out of it and then everything should all be ok

No need to upgrade your ram i run 2X512mb and its fine, an extra 512 seems a bit pointless, if you were to upgrade your ram then 2x1gb would be the only option in my eyes, and only the high end graphics cards really need 2gb of ram
 
Sorry to ask question after question gents :confused: Upgrading the PSU is it a matter of just unplugging leads out in to the new unit. Also think this PC is limited to 1Gb of memory :(
 
SiS chipset can't be helping things either. I wouldn't bother with anything above a 7600GS, too much CPU limitation with a 2.8ghz prescott.
 
aflie said:
I'm convinced, a 7600GS it is. ;)
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anything pretty much is a huge perfomance difference over a 5200 - especially if its the 64bit DDR memory interface version that a lot of retailers use (coz they are cheap)...

EDIT: From my calculations with a 7600GS your peak useage would be about 200watts... hope that 250 is upto it... also it doesn't look like a 7600GT would increase the power requirements hugely, but as your borderline with the GS and your CPU is a 2.8gig prescott it probably isn't worth getting a GT.
 
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Personally I'd say try and get a 6600gt. You can pick these up cheaply now, and it will be an awesome upgrade to what you have now.
I wouldn't bother with a 7600 as its going to be held back a lot by the rest of your pc. Also you will be having to spend money on a stronger psu and perhaps more ram to keep your system balanced.
 
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