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Looking for optimal graphic card for Asus K8N motherboard

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March 6, 2014 10:29:10 PM

Hello!
I would like to know which graphic card is the best choice for ASUS K8N motherboard (current is ATI Radeon 9600)?
I experience some difficulties with Internet browser performance (with IE, Mozzila, Chrome...) and graphic display in general. My CPU usage is at 100% for most of time while on Internet or even while using BS player, and that makes comp to be very slow and even some minor task is a very big problem..... So I would like to change my graphic c. and pick best choice. It is old hardware but I`ll have to satisfy with it for a while...

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March 7, 2014 1:19:52 AM

If you CPU usage is a 100% then why do you want a new graphics card? Tell us what CPU and PSU you have.

You can also try to use the Firefox plugin "adblock plus". It removes all advertisement from sites. For low end PCs these ads can be a serious performance killer.
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March 7, 2014 1:23:42 AM

well, If your CPU is running at 100%, then adding a graphics card won't help that, and if it is under that much strain (suggesting low end CPU) then going for decent graphics cards will cause a bottleneck. I would advise for this upgrade, go for a better CPU as well as a graphics card for optimal performance increase.

What kind of budget were you thinking?

I think you may be running a single core sempron CPU? is that correct?
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March 7, 2014 2:29:02 AM

TNX for answering so fast!
Well, the problem is that i tried to fix browser problem. I installed Chrome, Mozzila and new IE, run CCleaner, reinstalled Windows XP (SP3), even tried with older versions of Chrome and Mozzila. Installed older versions of Flash. But despite all that, problem remained. But even if I, somehow, manage to fix browser problem, that will not solve problem with BS player for instance.
And just to remind I used to have similar configuration and everithing used to run smoothly. Now that I have changed configuration (it is also used comp that was stored for some time now) everything is extremely slow and it is not possible to do anything normally!
So, due to CPU Usage and all other symptoms I somehow came to conclusion that it is possible that graphic c. is problem, and CPU is trying to manage graphics which causes it to run at 100% slowing down all processes.
Comp configuration is as follows: AMD 64 3200+, 2,21 GHz, 3 Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 9600, Windows XP (SP3).
Internet connection is stable at 5,6 Mbps.
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March 7, 2014 6:57:19 AM

Have you installed SP3 additionally, or it was included in the windows installation?
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March 7, 2014 7:32:06 AM

It was included in Win instalation...
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March 7, 2014 7:35:07 AM

I had a similar problem but when installing SP3 additionally. Not sure if this can help, but it wold not hurt to try.
In my case the solution was to install all available windows updates (took several hours literally, as the machine was even weaker than yours). After that the CPU load fall to normal.
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March 7, 2014 7:45:12 AM

As you said it will not hurt to try! But although I am not some computer expert, I beleive it is not possible to uninstall SP3 just so easy. I have to reinstall Win, right? Without SP3, of course. And then make all the updates after instalation is complete?
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March 7, 2014 8:01:19 AM

Do not uninstall SP3, just start windows update and accept all possible updates.
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March 7, 2014 8:10:05 AM

Aha! Thanks!!! Sure will try!! Hope it will work for me too! It is cheaper solution after all...
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March 8, 2014 4:03:12 AM

Hello again!

I tried as you suggested. I ran Win update and allowed all updates (there were 115 updates available. which all are installed now) but, nothing has changed... Everything is as it was before.... :( 
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