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hey i got a older pc laying around so thought i could put it to use for some light gaming like battlefield heroes, counter strike and stuff like that.

pentium 4 2.8ghz
2gb of ram
think it has a 400w psu dont know what kind
has everything else i just need a graphic card now
running xp
and 1440x900 res

any suggestions would be great, and im looking no more than 80 bucks

and thanks

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4670/4650 agp or 3850 agp


Message edited by obsidian86 on 10-04-2009 at 11:01:55 PM
Reply to obsidian86

for a pentium 4 2.8? that would underpower anything in it, stick with something cheap and low end - also because of the PSU

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Reply to apache_lives

A 4650 would be your best option as it uses little power, however any modern card will be bottlenecked by that processor so dont drop too much into an AGP card unless you are going to OC your CPU.

Reply to hunter315

yeah not looking for anything to expensive, maybe ill give it a go and try to overclock it but not sure.

Reply to huntsman

9500GT, 9600GSO, 9600GT
3850AGP, 4650AGP, 4670AGP

These are my choices, but usually AGP cards cost a little bit more than PCI-E Express slots

Reply to HansVonOhain

They are more expensive indeed. There is an article here on Tom's that showed the 3850 pretty much smoking all the other AGP cards...even the 4000 series AGP cards. I had a 3850 in an Athlon 3400+ system, and on the counter strike stress test it got an average of 140fps...not too bad considering. I could play Fallout 3 on it well enough, and even Crysis on low. All at 1280x1024.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2395.html

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