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epinephrine   12-01-2008 at 03:52:19 AM

Hi, I have a problem:
I have a Desktop DELL and I can't change it for other PC. It have 2 x 1gb kingston 667 and a GForce 6500 that I alreadly put. But I want to upgrade the video card and the processor it's a Pentium 4 HT 3.0 Ghz (everyone says that is a bad one). I wanna know if I can take a Hd Radeon 3870 or 4850 and if the processor will limit so much all the power of the GPU. It will be to a 1024x768 LCD display. Or should I save my money to get a new PC only in the end of the next year?

Ps.: The mother board have a PCI-E x16 slot, the Hd's should have an AGP slot or it's the same thing?

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jeteryankees22   12-01-2008 at 03:57:07 AM
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save and buy new...you're not going to be able to upgrade the processor(most likely)...I don't even know what your last question(the PS) is asking...but PCI and AGP are not the same thing

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turboflame   12-01-2008 at 04:10:01 AM
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You'd be better off saving your money, either card would be bottlenecked by your CPU.

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