Upgrade graphics card, but to what?

[alexthecheese]

Hi, got a bit of an old spec'd system compared to what is out there at the moment so I was looking at maybe getting a new graphics card to beef up what I've got without overhauling it to much. Currently I have:

Athlon 64 3500, 1 gig ram (DDR400, 1 slot no dual channel), GeForce 6800GT 256 meg, some crappy HDD's and a useless monitor.

The motherboard is a KT800PRO Asus (or abit, cant remember) AV8 and therefore only has an AGP slot which kinda reduces what I can do with my system.

Bearing in mind the above, what should I do to upgrade to get the greatest performance gain? A nice new graphics card would be good, but would AGP hinder it too much? The motherboard restricts a new processor and new RAM, and that would be pretty expensive to go down that route and would seem a bit restrictive as the graphics card would then be the limiting factor.

Any idea what to do?

 

[spb251272]

Is that a s939 cpu? if so, then I'd suggest a cheap SLI motherboard like the Asus A8N-SLI and a 7900GT. This will give a good performance boost, and you should be able to do this for around £250.

You may want a new monitor by the sounds of it, but you are then talking about a lot more money If you do get a new monitor, then check out the 20" widescreens as they are very good

 

[alexthecheese]

Im not entirely sure what socket it is, but I remember upgrading before they released the new style so its possibly the older one. Winchester core? I cant remember. I used to be into this stuff but my money has different priorities these days and I've lost following what is what!