Upgrading graphics card for a intel pentium4?

Minhaz Ali · Mar 15, 2013

I know what you guys are going to say, "buy a new system!" But I DONT want to. im not a hardcore gamer wanting to play high end games with the best resolution. I just want to upgrade my crappy mx440 into something that can let me play decent games like amnesia, half-life, team fortress or Modern warefare in normal-highish settings.I was planning on buying the Radeon 9700 or 9800 pro. I want to the card to be on directx9, but directx10 would be amazing. Here are my specs:

Intel Pentium 4
CPU 2.40 GHz
2.5GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8x (Dell)

Kjwinden · Mar 15, 2013

The important information is what kind of dell system do you have. Or, what kind of motherboard. The reason is if it only supports PCI express 2.0 that will limit your choices to graphics cards only supported by the PCI express 2.0.

Minhaz Ali · Mar 15, 2013

Kjwinden :

sadly, i only have AGP slot

sorry but i cant upgrade to pci express

Kjwinden · Mar 15, 2013

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600007850&IsNodeId=1&name=AGP%204X%2f8X&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleKWLess&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleKWLess-_-VideoCards-_-AGP-Video-Cards-_-+agp-graphics-card&gclid=CNX7r4X6_7UCFc5AMgodJ3MAcg

Well unless you wanna buy a new computer...the above link shows all your options from newegg.com. If you want more options you'll have to search "AGP graphics card" and see hwat you come up with.

Minhaz Ali · Mar 15, 2013

Kjwinden :

well how do i know if my wattage supply or watever can run it perfectly???

clutchc · Mar 15, 2013

AGP? Really? One of these would be about the best available today and enough for your requirements.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600007850%20600007317&IsNodeId=1&name=Radeon%20HD%204000%20series&Order=REVIEWS&Pagesize=20
The 4670 will be about the max your single core P4 can keep up with anyway. What resolution is your monitor capable of? And use this PSU calculator to be sure your PSU can handle it.
http://www.thermaltake.outervision.com/

Minhaz Ali · Mar 15, 2013

clutchc :

like i said, my pc is pretty embarrasing. I got standard resolution 1280 X 1024. You think a radeon 9700 is good enough? i want to be able to play amnesia, half life 2, tf2

pauls3743 · Mar 15, 2013

The most powerful AGP cards you could have got were the NVidia Geforce 7800 GS and the ATi Radeon X1650 Pro. They both sported 256MB of ram, needed a 4-pin power plug from the power supply for additional power (either the 4-pin hard drive molex or 4-pin floppy connector) and supported directX 9 but not 10. I believe both companies released later cards which supported directX 10. but they weren't as powerful, I cannot remember model name/numbers anyway.

I don't know if the cards you are looking at are powerful enough for your games. I do know you'll need to scour ebay as it's a long time since they were available new.

Kjwinden · Mar 15, 2013

Minhaz,

As far as your power supply goes, I would recommend finding the card you want, and then googling "minimum power supply requirements for card X."

Kjwinden · Mar 15, 2013

BigMack70 :

Minhaz, if you light your money on fire, can you send me a video of it plz?

Minhaz Ali · Mar 15, 2013

BigMack70 :

really? show me how

Minhaz Ali · Mar 15, 2013

look bros, i just want to play amnesia and tf2 :'(

spartansociety · Mar 15, 2013

you could even halve the ram, get a a10-5800k get a basic motherboard and still have something fast enough to play those games for around $200.

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