Best Card for Pentium 4 system?

^^ Forgot to mention, i do have a PCI-Ex16 lane.. but only 1.0 of course

I would recommend a 4670.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814140095

Excellent range of opinions! Very much appreciated
Also, i wont be gaming on this much if at all(only game on it is nascar 2003), this is just a second system i have, and wanna tool around with(Hackintosh).. the mainreason i want a good card is for multimedia and photo editing etc.

Thanks again!!

Which to my knowledge doesn't matter. The GPU doesn't play into photo editing at all, unless you are running a CUDA app, etc. Only the CPU (and RAM and harddrive) matters, the GPU simply displays what you did. If this is the case and your not a GPU demanding user, you can use nearly anything. I said nearly because you do play one racing game. I second the 8800GT. Might get a bit bottlenecked by your P4, but it shouldn't be to bad. The 9600GT or the 4770 is also not a bad idea. If you need cheap, the 4670 will work.

First of all, give your pentium 4 to charity and save up for a dual core at least. Secondly, hackintosh sucks plain as that. If you want to play with sth get the windows 7 RC.

this is stupid, get your facts together. its totally worthless to add any modern card to a pentium 4.

OP if you are still reading posts go over the the hackintosh forums and ask this....not all cards are compatible with osx so don't go on the suggestions placed here....

And ohh please OSX is fun to mess around on even an intel atom let him tinker.....i kind of miss my Msi Wind netbook which had a dual boot of osx

You know what...i may just use one of my spare P4 machines i have lying around as a new osx test bed...

1. ummm, excuse me? How rude.

Yes, there will be bottleneck, but the P4 is still a CPU capable of holding its own.
This guy paired a 9800GTX with a P4 @ 3.0 GHz, and he can run Bioshock with all settings maxed out at 60fps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BH28LrTWmA

So the OP's 3.4 GHz P4 should have no problems in any game except Crysis at max.

Hell, even there's another vid showing a guy playing Crysis on low/medium with a P4 and a POS 9500GT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol8 [...] re=related


2. I didn't know that was his 2nd rig. His OP didn't say anything about him having another computer.
My post was just to let him know what his 3.4 GHz cpu is capable of. And a P4 is still a respectable cpu, not a total piece of sh*t like you claim.

Umm, pardon me and with the utmost respect, I have to disagree here. That P4 is going to hold a 4850 or a 9800GTX well below their full potential. I know they don't cost a lot these days, but they are overkill for a P4. And to top it off, If all the OP does is the Nascar thing, and Photoshop. Neither are very GPU demanding, especially Photoshop.
I would suggest something in the range of a 4670 or a 9600GT depending on which camp you prefer. That is plenty, plenty of card for your use, and system I am afraid.
To the OP, you do realize how dog slow that P4 really is compared to a modern processor, right?

I'll probably go with the 9600GT or GTX, as you all just mentioned.. it's probably overkill for what i will use the system for..
As Rewind said.. I know it's a dog, but it's there.. so might as well make use of it! Maybe I could toss a few older and/or lighter games on it just for my nephews and such

And yeah I thought BSOD made a few very good and reasonably informed suggestions.. so that was a rather abrasive response

But wow..you all are definitely on point with everything!