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selfbrew   12-22-2008 at 04:47:48 PM

I am looking to upgrade my video card and have done some searching around. Im thinking of going with the APG GeForce 6800GT, I think It will fit my needs. The most power I would need out of it is to play Warcraft. Ive looked around and it is supposed to run fine on my 300W power supply and should work well with my P4 Hyper-thread. I figure I should still be able to add another 512 MB RAM and still not have to change my power supply. My biggest question is will the AGP Geforce 6800GT work with my Windows XP Home Edition? every where I look says it is speced for XP Pro or Vista. This is an older card and I would think it would run on my Windows XP home Edition, but will it?

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ejay   12-22-2008 at 05:00:46 PM

It will work with XP Home Edition. The latest driver set to work with this card and XP is, I believe, 178.24. But, expect to play at lower resolutions and little or no candy, on smaller monitors. Wow, with the latest revision, has become more resource-hungry which may not bode well for your 6800GT.

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frozenlead   12-22-2008 at 05:08:08 PM

Get an x1600 or x1650. Much more power for the dollar.

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Neuspeed   12-22-2008 at 05:10:02 PM

Before you settle for the 6800GT, check out the nvidia 7600GT available in AGP. It should be a few dollars more if not the same cost of the 6800GT.

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turboflame   12-22-2008 at 05:27:17 PM

frozenlead wrote :

Get an x1600 or x1650. Much more power for the dollar.



The X1650XT would be a good choice, the X1600pro was about the same as a 6600GT and the X1650pro wasn't much better. I don't think they make them anymore though.

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MayDay94   12-22-2008 at 05:38:47 PM

i have a 6800gt running off a 300 or 350 watt silverstone with xp pro and an athlon 64 3000+. i'm giving that pc to my dad. it should be fine in wow. it plays bf2 smooth with all eye-candy (4xaa 8xaf) on a 1280x1024 lcd.

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strangestranger   12-22-2008 at 05:46:28 PM

Christ, thought this was another thread resurrection.

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leo2kp   12-22-2008 at 05:52:06 PM

Go with HD3850 AGP. Great 512mb AGP card.

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zigonneux   12-23-2008 at 02:58:18 PM

If you go with the 3850, make sure you could have your money back: many older systems have problems with ATI driver and AGP bus. Mine was a problem (Nforce 2). So I change the video card for NVidia 7800 GS and I never got any drivers problems. I can play all new games without a glitch. Very happy.

Enjoy.

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frozenlead   12-23-2008 at 09:30:16 PM

With his PSU and his CPU, I wouldn't recommend a 3k series card. It'd be bottlenecked and it's really cutting it close on power. Max a 2600 series. The 3850 is meant for dual core AGP rigs.

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