Video/gaming card help

10 Years in the technology world is ancient history and as you say it's doing well for being so old , the thing is with an upgrade to the video card you will also be dealing with the other components inside the Pc whether you like it or not. The psu , ram and even the motherboard can come into play. Is your 7950 GT a Pci-e card or an AGP card? That also goes to your motherboard is it AGP or Pci-e ? What is your power supply , ram amount and what is your cpu?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Maybe you can't build a new high powered gaming Pc but this prebuilt would certianly bring you into this century for gaming.

I agree, there's absolutely no way to simply add a gaming graphics card to a computer that old.

Even if you had PCIe support your CPU would be a huge bottleneck.

Your only choice is to get a new system.

*FYI, you claim your computer is ten years old, but the 7950 GT came out in 2006 less than six years ago and apparently its the weak link in your system?

I'd be interested to know your specs:
1) motherboard
2) CPU
3) Windows version (XP 32-bit?)
4) RAM (frequency and amount, i.e. 800MHz, 1GB)
5) Power Supply

The program CPU-Z is very useful for the CPU/Motherboard/RAM details:
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

Rift and Secret World:
Neither game will look very good on a low-end PC. Here's the Rift requirements:
http://rift.ign.com/wiki/System_Requirements

I played Rift and I can tell you that the quality drops off drastically below an HD6850 graphics card and good CPU and looks and plays horribly with the minimum.

I upgraded the video card after the 1st one crashed and burned.
ok PC specs
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.111025-1505)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: NVIDIA
System Model: AWRDACPI
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+, ~2.4GHz
Memory: 1536MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 1536MB RAM
Page File: 748MB used, 2322MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7900 GS
Display Memory: 775 MB
Dedicated Memory: 504 MB
Shared Memory: 271 MB
Current Mode: 1600 x 1200 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Motherboard is the Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro
500 Watt power supply

Oh and Just to clear things up I built it 10 years ago, in that 10 years I upgraded as I could. My original idea was to make a good core PC and make upgrades as necessary. That is why I am asking for all of your assistance, I have come to a road block that I cant seam to upgrade pass   So I guess ill say sorry for misleading you into thinking I build it and haven't done anything after that. I am not that good of a PC builder