An AGP card to run GRID

[DJ Baz]

My Dad would like a new graphics card for Xmas, to replace my old nvidia 6800gs. Really the only current game he wants to play is GRID, although he is stuck with AGP. From OcUK, that means a choice between the £70 ATI 3650 and the £120 ATI 3850.

That's a fair price gap, and I know the 3850 is a good card, but would it be a waste of money over the 3650 if he is limited by his CPU (P4 3GHz) in GRID anyway? On the other hand, it's not exactly a slow chip - albeit single-core - he has 1.5gigs of DDR - which ought to be OK - and everybody says that games aren't really heavily CPU dependent these days....

Any help appreciated, thanks

 

[Tute]

I would say the 3650 would be ample. You won't notice much of a performance gap between it and the 3850 with your CPU anyway, sadly.

 

[DJ Baz]

Thanks, thats pretty much what I suspected

Also I suppose that with AGP being a technological cul-de-sac, a new expensive graphics card, no matter how good it is, will be made redundant if and when he upgrades the rest of his system, as it will almost certainly be to a pci-express motherboard.