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What is the best video card I can support?

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Hello, could somebody please help me with this. I am looking to upgrade my video card on an older system but I am not sure what I can support. Here are my systems specs:

Windows XP Professional
IBM
Model: 8187S1U
P4 2.8 Ghz
1792 MB RAM
Direct X 9

I am looking for as decent of a gaming video card as I can support. I understand that I still will not be able to play the best new games but I am sure there is something better than the current video card which I believe is just the stock integrated video card.

What is the best video card I can support?

Thanks for any help.

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Graphics card Master

i would suggest the ATI 4670. your CPU will pretty much bottleneck most other video cards that offer better performance. plus it will run on any generic 300w PSU.
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Graphics card Authority

I'd honestly just get the 4650 and save yourself a few bucks. You ought to get the same performance out of either the 4650 or 4670 since that CPU will bottleneck either one.
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Also: An AGP card is going to be slightly offset from the rest of the slots like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d...

Whereas the PCIe x16 slot tends to be more closely aligned with the rest of the slots:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Abit/AL8/images/slot...

Also, as you may have noticed from those pictures, it's usually marked right next to the slot on the motherboard. If you still can't find it, try to look it up based on the model number of your motherboard if you know it.
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