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Card upgrade advice

Sudden

Sudden

Sudden

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Thinking of upgradinge my computer a little bit and want to spend the least possible basically.
I have an intel 850 motherboard, so the card needs to be PCI or AGP 4x
I have an ati radeon 9200SE right now. What would be the best card I could get? Don't want to upgrade my motherboard. Thanks :)
 
Sorry, but bump :p
I know there are hardly any of these cards left anymore, but the one's taht are, would anything help me notice an improvement?
 
Tough call. The reason you're not getting many answers is because (and i say this with great expectation (and hope for your sake) to be shot down any second) most of us aren't too sure if more modern AGP cards will run well (or indeed at all) on the old x4 AGP socket.

If however, as I suspect, you only get a performance hit from using x4 AGP rather than new cards not working at all, and given that top end AGP cards are at the limit of what x8 can offer, then something like a x800 (gt/pro/gto) should be a good match.
 
Man_from_uncle has a point. The nvidia website says all their agp 8x cards should be backwards compatible, so my advice would be to get an older nvidia 8x card and you should get a significant boost.

Something like a second hand 6800 GT/GS. I wouldn't go much faster, it would probably be a waste.
 
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