Best video card for my old motherboard

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RCguitarist


If you absolutely don't want to upgrade your CPU, you could spend $60 and upgrade to this motherboard which will work with your current CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157274

Then you would benefit from being able to utilize PCI 2.0.

Then later on, if you wanted to upgrade the processor, you could jump up to THIS and still be able to use the AsRock motherboard.

Then you could get this video card to complete the setup: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121630R

That would bring you to a total of $229 spent.

OR (this is what I would do...)
Get these for just $36 more and have a mmuch, much better...
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I would say the highest spec card you would want would be an AMD 7750. Anything more and you will be limited by the PCIe 1.X bandwidth. There are plenty of these available used/refurbished, also in low-profile configuration. You won't need an auxiliary PCI-e power connector either.

For an additional budget upgrade, if you don't have the highest spec CPU for that board, look into a used chip. You can probably max the CPU for ~$10 USD in that respect if needed.

 
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That's ancient, and it won't be a surprise if it will die tomorrow. It is OK to use such setup until it die, but adding a new component for extra cost is not worth, even if it will save chunk of money for you at the moment. Since when you have to replace the motherboard, you will have to replace most component anyway. It's that outdated. If you still want to add video card, however, for light gaming and media playback, just get the cheapest one available. That motherboard, and configuration with the board, can't draw meaningful increased performance increase from more costly card.
 
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If you want a new motherboard with an AM3+ (AMD CPU's), I would recommend the MSI 970A-G43. With that, you'll be able to go a bit higher on the GPU and CPU cheaply, and it won't die tomorrow. This one you have provided is old and not the greatest. $60 for the new mobo.
 
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Don't listen to these guys. I have an old socket 940 opteron build doing the same HTPC duty with this board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186055
Tossed an AMD 6850 in it and it's a great little box, useful for a backup gaming rig/TV gaming.
Just because something is old doesn't mean it doesn't have it's uses, and in no way does it mean it will die...
I have a 386 system that still posts (useless now but still, 20 years old and still kicking)
 
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Can I use a PCIe 3.0 x16 card in this board? (Or 2.0 x16, or 2.1 x16) or am I limited to just the basic PCIe x16
 
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You can use any PCIe spec card in any generation slot. A PCIe 3.0 card will work just fine electronically in a PCIe 1.0 or 1.1 slot and vice versa. The limiting factor in this instance is basically the whole platform, you'll see significant bottlenecking of the GPU with anything other than entry level cards.
 
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If you absolutely don't want to upgrade your CPU, you could spend $60 and upgrade to this motherboard which will work with your current CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157274

Then you would benefit from being able to utilize PCI 2.0.

Then later on, if you wanted to upgrade the processor, you could jump up to THIS and still be able to use the AsRock motherboard.

Then you could get this video card to complete the setup: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121630R

That would bring you to a total of $229 spent.

OR (this is what I would do...)
Get these for just $36 more and have a mmuch, much better system:
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113291

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157364

Graphics card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121630R


 
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This is a very good way to go.
 
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