The computer is several years old, it can play games such as Unreal Tournament 2004 but it lags when the game screen gets busy and that is so annoying! Would a better Graphics card increase performance and if so which card should I get? I was thinking of getting one second hand as my PC is quite old.
Here are my specs :
Athlon 2400+
1024 MB Ram
80 GB Hard Disk
DVD Writer
ATI-RADEON 9600 SE (AGP Card)
2007-03-21 05:02:19 · 6 answers · asked by Siu02rk 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
A graphics card could increase preformance. But you have to realise that all the components are relying on each other. If for instance you have a very fast graphics card but a low speed CPU than it will bottleneck and just cause slowdowns, or vice versa. Your CPU seems a little old for pc gaming so you might want to invest in a better system.
2007-03-21 05:06:11 · answer #1 · answered by Brock Lee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi there,
Depends what do u understand from performance....the graphics card will definitely increase your performance, but visual performance. If you want to play games, then yeah you can put something like NVIDIA GEFORCE 7600+. But if you speak about performance in general, then I would recommend you to put at least 2GB of memory (RAM). And dont forget that if you are a heavy computer user (at least 4 hrs per day), it is highly recommended to do the System Scan Disk Utility and Disk Defragmenter at least once per week.....
2007-03-21 05:10:01 · answer #2 · answered by fabric1601 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems that Radeon 9600 Pro or 9800 SE would be around twice as fast as 9600 SE, and 9800 Pro more than 3 times faster (could be limited by your CPU speed). See UT2K3 Benchmark at:
http://www.digital-daily.com/video/vga-roundup/
The problem is finding one.
2007-03-21 06:10:45 · answer #3 · answered by ROY L 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want to improve your gaming performance (because a better VGA is just to improve 3D and graphics performance.) you could buy a new video card.
But I don't think that your motherboard supports PCI-E bus. Your only choice is to buy an AGP8X card.
Yes, buying a better VGA improves your gaming performance.
2007-03-21 05:07:24 · answer #4 · answered by Mac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may help a little but being that it's a slightly older PC it may not make that much of a difference.
2007-03-21 05:06:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First update direct X, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.mspx
then video card drivers,
http://ati.amd.com/
if this doesn't work, then yes, get a new card.
2007-03-21 05:08:07 · answer #6 · answered by yeraluzer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋