What is the best graphics card for me?

Question

Intel P4 2.26 GHz
512 MB RAM
Intel board (865GBF) with 64 MB built-in video memory and AGP.
I want to upgrade to 256 MB video memory.
What is best for my PC?
Geforce or ATI? And which model?

AGP slot is there.
I want to upgrade mainly for games and for 3d application like 3d max and poser.

Answer 1

If you are trying to play the latest games, sadly that processor will not cut it. As the latest games require the minimum specs to be at least a 2.5Ghz processor.

Obviously the best video card for anyone would be the most expensive one. But do you have the money to get the most expensive video card? The most expensive/most powerful consumer video card is the NVidia GeForce 8800GTX, which costs 500 dollars up.

Lastly, since you have an old motherboard, probably you have an AGP slot, which limits the video cards you can buy, as most of them are now on PCI-Express. You can search the internet for the most powerful AGP cards available.

Answer 2

Matters if the motherboard has a AGP slot or not. The best agp is the Radeon x1950 pro. The cpu will, however, will slow the video card down in some games. If you not talking about using 3d games, may not need a video card, but upgrading the memory from 512mb to 1gb would be helpful. But again, it all depends on what you are trying to get the computer to do.

Answer 3

ATI, definitely, but AGP cards are expensive. A good one might cost you 200 bucks. Log on to e-zshop.net. I bought mine from there and I am completely satisfied. Click the "Electronics" Tab and search for ATI Radeon 256MB AGP. Thousands of possibilities. Just make sure it's a new one, because the used ones might be broken.

Answer 4

Nvida are the best graphics cards around but if you dont want to have Nvida then i would say ATI but always I would go for nvida
;)

Answer 5

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143046