Catch me up

[Lord of Shadows]

My xfx 7950gt agp just blew up and I was hoping to keep that card until I upgarded my old 939 system in the distant future. (Lack of time and interest in gaming for the past few years)

They are offering me an 9800gt, but that would require me to buy a new motherboard, processor, ram, and watercooling blocks for everything and I dont really want to mess with that right now. (That and my fw900 monitor blew up the other day, so I need a monitor too really.)

I cant really find any benchmarks on the thing and was hoping to get some info on what you guys would do in my situation.

 

[ihira]

the 9800GT is PCI-Express, so unless your motherboard has a PCI-E slot, it won't work.

 

[UtopiA]

Two options;

Take the 9800GT, keep it, upgrade your entire system. You can buy a cheap ~$20 AGP card until you get your new system together.

Take the 9800GT, sell it, buy the best AGP card you can afford. The HD3850 AGP is the best AGP card at the moment, but I think it's kind of overpriced for the performance.

 

[Mr. K6]

At this point, it's a real waste to put any extra money into AGP, it's just too far behind. If it's not in your budget to do a full system overhaul right now, buy at least the monitor you want now and the cheapest AGP card you can find (FS/FT is your friend here, probably). That will at least give you a useable computer until you can get the new system.

 

[heatlesssun]

In the beginning... and then Barack Obama was elected President of the US.

Now that you're caught up, take the 9800gt and sell or trade it for an AGP part if all you want to do is fix the card, assuming that XFX doesn't have an AGP card to swap with it, certainly not much if anything new. Being a 939 system your rig is pretty long in the tooth. You could pick up a cheap box that will easily out perform it if so inclined.