an upgrade and PCIe card attractive too. Well the gF7600GT consumes less power than the GF6600GT so if power is a concern, it seems pretty clear which is your best option, and then you can save some money towards your next upgrade to a quad core setup...

PCI-E upgrade AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice Asus A8N-SLi Premium Gigabyte or MSI 7600GT 256MB PCI-E (silent) Cost: £245 (US$460) An Intel/PCI-E dual-core upgrade Pentium D 820 Dual Core 2x1MB 2.8 GHz FSB800 Asus P5LD2 SE i945P Gigabyte or MSI 7600GT 256MB...

ok, do i really need to get a new fancy pci-e motherboard and a pci-e card (looking at 7600GT which is another £100), or just get a moderate agp card and make do (i itend to upgrade bit by bit really). Or should i just go for a half decent mboard and a...

the PC's ability in running some of the latest games (Oblivion, BF2142, NWN2, etc). The main problem I face is that my motherboard (ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe) only takes AGP cards, so it would cost me an estimated £520 to upgrade onto a decent PCI-E card. I...

but most also usually have a PCIe upgrade slot. I am not up on PCI cards so someone else needs to make a recommendation. Im confused by your response, R u telling me to save my money or upgrade ? If it's worth upgrading then i will do it, but if it's really...

I didn't say it was evil, I said it's not a good upgrade path and has little to do with anyone forcing anyone to buy something. If you or the OP wanna preach BS about PCIe or upgrading itself being evil, eletist or whatnot, then you/he are dillusional and...

200. Just a quick search on newegg: 7600GT AGP $180 7600GT PCIe $120 + Socket 939 nforce4 MB with x16 PCIe $57 = $177 You now have a spare motherboard to sell and can upgrade again to other PCIe cards. The comparison gets even better when you See...

later with ATi now releasing the x1950 AGP. Yeah, at some point there will be no benefit to aging video standards, but currently that is not the case. Most AGP users can still use their systems quite well without doing a mobo/PCIe upgrade. If you want...

do you have? I assume you have socket 478 and a AGP slot. (if you have socket 775 and PCIe, you upgrade life got a lot easier) Even so, it looks like your weak areas are your RAM and Graphics card. Upgrade to at least 1 GB of high quality RAM and a x1950...