Old system needs new video card to hold me over

I have an old 2400+ XP system with 1GB PC3200 and a GF 4400Ti agp card. I want to be able to play my copy of World in Conflict at least on med settings. I am holding out for about another year.

My power supply is a Enermax EG465P-VE it has 20A on the single 12+ rail.
PSU specs here:
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/enermaxeg465p/

I wouldn't mind getting an 1950pro or X1650PRO agp card. I am open to other upgrade suggestion. I just want to keep it cheap, it being a really old paper weight and all. I would like to keep it $150 or less .The 1650pro is aroun$70 or so, that would be nice.

Thanks

What is the make and model of your motherboard. With that info a possible AGP card upgrade can be suggested.

Here are a few I was thinking about:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102073

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102709


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130076

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814161032

You can use a power consumption calculator to determine if your supply will handle everything. You can perhaps try this free one:
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp
I am sure there are better online ones out there though.Hope it helps.

Unless you have a dozen harddrives and a plethora of peripherals that power supply provides ample power fr that system.

I am not sure about what you deem playable but if your budget cap is $150 you may want to investigate into the HD 3850. It is rumoured to be coming out in an AGP. Other than googling "3850 AGP" there isn't anything I can provide information wise. The x1650pro albeit quite cheap is fairly weak in that game. I do not have a system nor seen benchmarks on that CPU, so I'm not sure where you will bottleneck heavily first. Is the cpu running at stock?

yes cpu is stock. The cheap MB wont allow for any OC.. plus my memory isn't the greatest for OC as well.

I just thought that the fastest GPU I could go would be the 1650pro because of bottleneck from the CPU...

That card you linked is the DDR2 version, I strongly recommend against getting that card.

I have a DDR3 version of the same card that I used for just one week before replacing it with an x1950GT (got a good deal on the 1950). If you're interested I'll sell you the still practically new DDR3 x1650pro (worked perfectly for the week I had it installed).

Let me know.

ah, yes, forgot to say that.

make sure you do get a DDR3 card, and not a DDR2.

my x1650xt is DDR3. beautiful card for it's price.

I paid about $100 for it from newegg. I'll sell it for $50.

YGM !

But even with my slow CPU ? I thought it would bottleneck even the 1650 ? What would be the point. I want to spend as little as possible on this hunck of junk as possible. If it would give me a noticable increase over the 1650 with a 2400+ cpu I would be interested.

I found this article

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/agp- [...] -2039.html

Basically its says that my cpu will battleneck the faster card on some games but it might let me run 4xAA on higher res.

So I might get 20% more for double the money.