Will My PC be Able to handle a Radeon 3850 AGP card?

You didn't list your power supply, which is crucial in this instance.

With AGP 4x and a Celeron, any modern AGP card you put in there will be pretty bottlenecked.

Which version of Windows are you using? I did n`t think XP would load in 256Mb!

What are the +12 amps?

You could probably go with a HD 3650, but not a HD 3850 not even my system can handle it lol.

Processor(s)
Number of processors 1
Number of cores 1 per processor
Number of threads 1 per processor
Name Intel Celeron
Code Name Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
Package Socket 478 mPGA
Family/Model/Stepping F.2.9
Extended Family/Model F.2
Brand ID 10
Core Stepping D1
Technology 0.13 um
Core Speed 2388.4 MHz
Multiplier x Bus speed 24.0 x 99.5 MHz
Rated Bus speed 398.1 MHz
Stock frequency 2400 MHz
Instruction sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 Data cache (per processor) 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache (per processor) 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache (per processor) 128 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Chipset & Memory
Northbridge VIA P4M266 (VT8751) rev. 00
Southbridge VIA VT8235 rev. 00
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Revision 2.0
AGP Transfer Rate 4x
AGP Side Band Addressing not supported, not enabled
Memory Type DDR
Memory Size 512 MBytes
Memory Frequency 132.9 MHz (FSB + 33 MHz)
DRAM Interleave 4-way
CAS# Latency (tCL) 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# (tRCD) 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 3 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 6 clocks
System
System Manufacturer VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Name P4M266A-8235
System S/N
Mainboard Vendor
Mainboard Model P4M266A-8235
BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Version 6.00 PG
BIOS Date 01/31/2004
Memory SPD
Module 1 DDR, PC3200 (200 MHz), 256 MBytes, unknown brand
Module 2 DDR, PC2700 (166 MHz), 256 MBytes, Corsair
Software
Windows Version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
DirectX Version 9.0c

Hmm... A lot of problems.... You need at least 1GB of RAM to get decent performance in the latest games, even if you have the fastest processor with the fastest video card, it will still be slow if you only have 512MB of RAM.

Your processor is barely on the minimum requirements of current PC games.

Bottlenecking is something like having a trucks engine (Radeon 3850) while having a Volkswagen beetle's body. (Celeron 2.4Ghz) All those power wasted.

I think you would be better off buying a whole new PC setup.

Even something like :

- Pentium Dual Core E5200
- ECS G31-T
- 2x 1GB of RAM

Would be like 2x faster than your current setup.

Go out and buy a new box (use your old monitor/keyboard etc).


Even a low end machine at £650 will be far ahead of what you currently have.

That cpu is the exact same strength as an Atom 230 so just get an Acer Aspire Revo for $300 and you can play all those since it has Ion. And it should be a bit faster for all other tasks too.

Or you can get an Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4600 on ebay for $20 which will be a huge upgrade from the card you currently have ^.^