What Is The Best GPU For Windows XP 32-bit?

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I've got this old PC I want to upgrade. I believe the motherboard is a P5BW-LA (Basswood2). What is the best possible GPU for 1200 SEK (~130 USD|~100 GBP|~120 EUR)? And just for fun, what is the best GPU possible without a money limit.
 
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Look at the title, it for an windows XP. And look at the mobo, only have PCI slot and pcie x1 slot
 
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Understood, I didn't look closely enough at the title, was mostly just answering the best cards for price ranges.
 
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The problem will be the cpu bottlenecking the gpu.
 
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I'm aware that there's more to it than just a GPU. I'm looking into CPUs, SSDs and RAMs.
 
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Actually the Nvidia Titan Xp is the best gpu out to date.
 
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That platform is too old for it to make sense to upgrade CPU, RAM, etc. You'd be better off getting a new motherboard, at which point you're pretty much going to be making an entirely new build rather than upgrading an old one.
 
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Actually it does have PCI-E Express x16 slot: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c00748726.

There is all but zero chance that the motherboard has a BIOS update for 10xx series GPUs.
It is a socket 775 so the CPU will be a limiting factor in the maximum capabile GPU you can actaully utilize
So with all of this in mind the best recommendation would be a GTX 750 ti. Anything faster then that and your CPU wont be able to do anything with it anyways (and that is assuming you have a core2duo or core2quad)
 
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Currently the financial situation is halting that. But that is indeed a future plan.
 
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I agree. But, currently the financial situation is halting that. But that is indeed a future plan.
 
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Waiting to buy the gpu and getting what boosted1g listed will result in a better product. Also the cpu he listed is strong enough to play many games without a gpu on low settings. Going with the P5BW-LA (Basswood) build will yield about the same results and cost more in the long run.
 
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I fully agree. I'm looking into what boosted1g recommended. I'm using prisjakt as part of the research. Still, I want to do as much as possible with the motherboard.
 
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I would get an ek extreme water kit ddr4 ram (idk if they are backwards compatible but they should fit into ddr 2 ram slots)an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 and be done with it. Oh Oh and a samsung pci-e ssd.
 
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Wow, so much bad advice in one post.
Different DDR types are not backwards compatible, DDR4 won't fit in DDR2 slots and the a QX9650 wouldn't work with DDR4 anyway. The only Samsung PCIe SSDs I know of are M.2 drives, which that mobo lacks a slot for. Also, a platform that old probably couldn't boot from a NVMe device anyway. Finally, spending hundreds of dollars on a water cooling kit when budget is clearly tight makes no sense. That money would be much better spent upgrading system components.

If the OP upgrades his CPU, he should upgrade mobo and RAM at the same time.
 
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