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Hey everyone
 
(First off, waiting for more money to buy a whole new system is not a possiblity, I know my system isn't the best, all I need for the moment is something that can play BF2 and World of Warcraft with 30 FPS stabile. I'm willing to buy a new power supply aswell, if this can help you help me)
 
I discovered my graphics card burned out today, so I'm out looking for a new one.
 
However finding one that suits my system is proving difficult. This is my system:
 
Power Supply: http://www.northq.com/products/pow [...] t-usb.html
CPU: Intel Pentium 4   3GHz Hyperthreading
Motherboard: Intel Desktop Board D865GLC/D865PESO
Hard Drive: Maxtor 6B300S0
 
Now my problem is that no matter what Graphics card I look at, I cant find anything about the W or A it needs from the Power Supply.
 
So my questions are:
 
Is this: http://www.xfxforce.com/web/produc [...] Id=1006170 a good enough card for system, and if so, what kind of power supply upgrade do I need? (links to info would be wonderful)
 
And if not, what would you suggest and why?
 
Thank you all in advance.

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I don't think that's the most powerful agp available, that honour falls to an Ati card IIRC but I don't know which one exactly xt1900 or something I think.


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Athough I appriciate your answer, thats not what I asked for.
 
I need to know what is the best to buy the system I have, and for the goal I want to reach.
 
Also I need to know if this card is even viable as I have no clue as to what kind of power it requires of the power supple.

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i think u should look for an HD2600XT AGP. U shouldn't have to upgrade your power supply with this GC

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Alright thanks Paul, thats one of the cards I had been looking at.
 
Although, how do I know how much power each card needs? I haven't found anyway to see this on any site thus far

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 New egg are quite good for this i have found in the past that if you fish around the differant versions of the cards listed there usually one or more will list power requirements under the specification tab.
 Like this one  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814129090  
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