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Hey guys I'm looking to buy a AGP video card for under 100$... I only have a 250W P/S so if I need to upgrade it please tell me. Also if you have a video card / Power supply you will sell via money order than that's great and I will go first.

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Card name: (Ex: NVidia 6800 GS)
Price: (Ex: 50$)
Available at Tiger Direct.ca?: (Yes or No)
Need new P/S?: (Yes or No)
If I new P/S needed, recommendation: (Ultra 350W, www.examplelink.com)

Thanks for your time!

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#2 ·
A good card under $100 from tigerdirect.ca would be
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Card name: Visiontek X1600XT
Price: $86
Available at Tiger Direct.ca?: Yes
Need new P/S?: Probably not
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...9678&CatId=318

As for power drain, I'm pretty sure your PSU is ok with it because it's not exactly "strong"

There are 1650PRO's available from TD but one is DDR2 and the other's fan doesn't look very good (I mean, it doesn't look like it'll cool well)
 
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Here is a card that does not need an additional power connector and most likely not even a new power supply unit.

Card Name: HIS Radeon X1050 http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...4203&CatId=318
Price: $73.99
Available At Tigerdirect.ca: Yes
Need New PSU: No

For something faster and cheaper you might need (I said Might) a new PSU. For example:

Card name: Visiontek Radeon X1550 http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...IN#detailspecs
Price: $50.99
Available At Tigerdirect.ca: Yes
Need New PSU: Yes (most Likely)

PSU: Coolmax CX450B (450w) http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...9594&CatId=106
Price: $44.99
Available At Tigerdirect.ca: Yes

Hope that helps!
 
#5 ·
I would say wait on a new card. There are great limitations for AGP cards. My last computer was a p4 with a 6200 and I realized that it wasnt worth upgrading so i saved up some money and bought a whole new computer. you arnt going to be able to upgrade your card that much on agp.
 
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I'm not going to find the card for you, however I can provide two great AGP cards that are good bang per bucks. You can either go with the ATI X1650 series, or the Nvidia 7600GS series (both only get the 256MB versions, they can't use 512MB of vRAM). I'm sure you can find them yourself. Both are excellent cards and should do fine with your current PSU. However, if you're going to be building a whole new computer anytime soon, just save that money. Its not exactly worth it to upgrade an AGP system unless you have no choice.
 
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It's not worth it to upgrade a agp system. The best advice would be to save your money.
You can get a x2 with a am2 board for around 100 bucks now and overclock close to 3.0ghz and have upgrade room with pcie16x. Much better investment then some slightly better agp card that will cost close to 100 bucks anyway.

A psu is something that can carry over to other builds so you should always invest in a good one. Don't get a coolmax thought, not very good quality imo.
I'd recommend Corsair, xclio, silverstone, fps, antec.
 
Discussion starter · #8 ·
Thanks guys! REP for all! You've all made very helpful posts and I thank you for your time! I will upgrade this system to something a little bit better but that will be it. After this upgrade I'm saving my money and holding out to buy a AMD based low end dual core... I just want gaming and isn't processor speed not that important when you game, all comes down to your card?

Thanks again guys and still looking for recommendations!

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Originally Posted by BlankThis View Post
Thanks guys! REP for all! You've all made very helpful posts and I thank you for your time! I will upgrade this system to something a little bit better but that will be it. After this upgrade I'm saving my money and holding out to buy a AMD based low end dual core... I just want gaming and isn't processor speed not that important when you game, all comes down to your card?

Thanks again guys and still looking for recommendations!

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lol your processor is very important if you game. it's second only to the graphics card.

if your cpu is bad, it'll bottleneck the gfx card too

go look at a few benchmarks and you'll see
 
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lol your processor is very important if you game

go look at a few benchmarks and you'll see
the GPU is much much more important however you still need a decent processor so you don't bottleneck the GPU.

I.e. a 4ghz quad with a 8500gs still isn't going to play games at all... but a cheap dual-core AMD with a 8800gt will blow it away.
 
Discussion starter · #11 ·
Thanks a lot! I'll probably look into a low to mid range AMD cause they're cheap and a decent graphics card, maybe not the 8800GT but the best I can afford.

If there are any other card or advice you guys would be willing to give that would be awesome and I'm repping if I find it helpful!

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Discussion starter · #13 ·
I have no idea how to overclock at all... I have tried... Looking at guides and the stickies here but it still doesn't make sense to me... I would like the chance to see someone do it one day.

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