Keeping old computer alive

[Tudz]

EDIT: My bad, this was supposed to be in the video cards forum! I had video cards open on one tab and displays open on the other, must have clicked new thread in the wrong one, sorry! Gonna repost in video cards... mods feel free to lock this.

G'day all,

I've got an old computer that's had its video card die on me. I'm trying to figure out the cheapest possible way of keeping it running. It doesn't need to run games, other than freecell or solitaire.

Its a P4 3.2GHz, the motherboard is a P5VDC-MX which has an AGP slot and a 1x PCI-e slot. So I need a video card that is either a dirt cheap AGP card that's still supported in drivers (the old Ti200 didn't run in Vista or Windows 7 because nVidia dont support it anymore). OR, can I get a dirt cheap video card that'll run on a 1x PCI-e slot?

What do you think I should get? Either way it needs to be a card that's still supported in drivers so I can actually run Vista or Windows 7.

 

[tdoran1]

G'day all,

I've got an old computer that's had its video card die on me. I'm trying to figure out the cheapest possible way of keeping it running. It doesn't need to run games, other than freecell or solitaire.

Its a P4 3.2GHz, the motherboard is a P5VDC-MX which has an AGP slot and a 1x PCI-e slot. So I need a video card that is either a dirt cheap AGP card that's still supported in drivers (the old Ti200 didn't run in Vista or Windows 7 because nVidia dont support it anymore). OR, can I get a dirt cheap video card that'll run on a 1x PCI-e slot?

What do you think I should get? Either way it needs to be a card that's still supported in drivers so I can actually run Vista or Windows 7.

The Windows 7 requirement makes this "tricky", the AMD/ATI 4000 series is supported by Windows 7.

See the following URL:

POWERCOLOR AG4670 1GBK3-P Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 AGP 8X HDCP Ready Video Card - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131161


Tim