new card in old pc?

[superwoofer]

Hello, my mom bought a comp about a year ago for just over 2k and its outdated and useless. Could I buy a new power suply and graphic card and have a new working computer? my rig is an asrock p4 mobo with an intel p4 prescot 2.93 ghz 1mb cache. 160gb sata hd and 1gb of ram. I would buy 500 watt power and an ati 1900xt. I guess my real question is would the x1900 run nice with such an old mobo and small hd?

 

[prozac26]

What card do you have now?

Also, the size of the hard drive means very little, as long as it's at least a 7200RPM.

 

[raven_87]

Couple things. Why buy an X1900?? is she going to use its full potential?

Just over a year ago?? can't be that bad. but if its AGP then a PCI-E GPU is out of the question.

 

[superwoofer]

no lol, the 1900 is for my games but thats just an example, any good quality new card would do. but I have an ati x300 se. and at least 1 pci-e slot with i think 2 pci slots under it. ok the hd is 7200 rpm so that covers that question but i still think my system specs are to low for a nice card, tell me im wrong.

 

[prozac26]

I would suggest something mid-range, like a 7600GT.

 

[superwoofer]

I would suggest something mid-range, like a 7600GT.

would that make a big difference compaired to a radeon 300se? I used to run hl2 on medium display settings untill for sum reason it stoped working.

 

[raven_87]

yes hell it would make a huge difference with that game.

a 7600 would take you places that x300 could never dream of

 

[pauldh]

Your system specs aren't that bad and can easily justify buying a 7600GT or better. The 7600GT would give a huge gaming boost over your X300se.

 

[superwoofer]

oo i c, and does that 7600 need a direct power suply from the psu? I only have a 300 watt psu.

 

[michaelahess]

If it's a decent ps it will handle a 7600, I wouldn't go over that with that ps though. 2k for a system like that seems like a lot, it's not a sony is it?

 

[superwoofer]

nope its some custom crap that mdg put together, that company probably doesn't exist in the states. one day my sister needed a computer for homework and my mom just ran out and bought the first one she saw on sale...i can't c how it was on sale if it was 21 hundred clams. jeez i coulda got a nice e6400 for a few hundred less. I think she got tricked from all the "free" stuff they put in, like the 2 dollar printer/webcam/mp3 player which have all broke since then.