Old computer, new graphics card?

[t.early]

Hi,

I have a P4 1.4GHz that I bought 6 years ago now, recently upgraded to 768MB RAM, and the graphics card is a 64MB NVidia GeForce 2 GTS. The only 3D games I play on it are Warcraft 3 and PKR, a poker client. However in both cases there's sometimes massive slowdown and everything just crunches along, even though my 64MB card is well above the recommended level for WC3 - is this a graphics card problem or just my old processor? And is there some setting I can tweak with my current card, or should I upgrade?

I was thinking of the NVidia GeForce 6200 256MB PCI DVI TVO made by PNY (no PCI Express on my motherboard, current card is AGP but no upgrades available in that respect), would this be a good choice for me to make everything run smoothly? I mean I read a review of it in Custom PC magaine which junked it but then that would only be for modern graphics-hungry games, right?

any help much appreciated,

- tom -

 

[Supernaut91]

Geforce 4 card?

 

[snowdog]

Tbh a better upgrade would be a northwood p4 of some sort, them 1.4 ghz wilamettes were worse than pentium 3's, the pentium 4 gen only starts being faster from about the time northwoods came out, ideally a 6600 geforce + a 2.0 + ghz northwood would enlarge the life of your pc a few years.
Iirc the 6200 is about the speed of a geforce 4 mx, so imo not worth it.