agp upgrade under $100?

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o0akoni0o

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my roommate is looking to upgrade from his fx5200. he has an older machine running a p4 2.6 ghz, 1 gb ram, and a antec 380w psu. the games he play are cs, dod (not the source ones), rome total war, and WoW. so whats the best he can get for less than $100?
 
o0akoni0o said:
my roommate is looking to upgrade from his fx5200. he has an older machine running a p4 2.6 ghz, 1 gb ram, and a antec 380w psu. the games he play are cs, dod (not the source ones), rome total war, and WoW. so whats the best he can get for less than $100?
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anything?


jk

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814145139 ??? out of stock, but 7300GT sounds like a good upgrade. (read the second review on this one, sounds like the same case as you're in)

here's an open-box one... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814145139R

 
o0akoni0o said:
would his system bottleneck possible performance with those cards?
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I hate this term so very very much.

Understand this: the slop of the graph that is performance increase from card VS oldness and badness of system performance doesnt just continue up and then flatline, the line bends (IE it's dynamic). Meaning, a Pentium 3 will see a huge performance increase to an 8800GTX from a 7900GTX. The differance, however, would not be as great as the differance between performance on a C2D going from a 7900GTX to an 8800GTX. My english skills fail me here, sorry :\. Hope you caught my drift.

So, to that end, every CPU out there bottlenecks every graphics card out there, by the same definition we could also say that no graphics card is bottle necked by any CPU.

I would have to say the differance in FPS between CPUs is minimal when the application is graphic entensive, and not straining the CPU. When your talking about loading time, or other more CPU entensive tasks, of course the CPU differance is important, but during the normal gameplay of any game, I would say otherwise.
 
i completely understand what you mean and i was hoping for an answer based on that. like if a jump from lets say a 6800 to a 7300 on his system would be significant. i guess the better question to ask is, what video card out there can he take full advantage of, based on his system?
 
6800 to 7300 would be a downgrade. Rule of thumb: Current gen midrange = last gen high-end.
 
o0akoni0o said:
i completely understand what you mean and i was hoping for an answer based on that. like if a jump from lets say a 6800 to a 7300 on his system would be significant. i guess the better question to ask is, what video card out there can he take full advantage of, based on his system?
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the ones previously linked.:rolleyes:

 
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