AGP Radeon HD 3850. Worth it for new games?

thejackal

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My friend is really low on cash and is unable to front a budget of over 200$ He is using AGP and can't afford to upgrade the mobo, ram, and graphics card so this is the gpu we've come to. He isn't a huge gamer, but he does want to be able to play Left4Dead with me and my friends.

I don't know enough about GPU's to know if this will be able to handle the game. My recommendation to him is to save up and just do basically an overhaul of the whole thing, but he is adamant. Also on a similar note i keep trying to convince him he'll need more than 1gb ram but he won't believe me.

If anyone can give me some more info it would be much appreciated.