precision 650 as gaming rig?

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I have a dell dimension 8100, 384 rdram, 1.8 ghz cpu, nvidia 6600gt vid card.

This system is obviously stone age, and cramps my gaming style (stuck playing call of duty 1 on low settings when I want to run cod4, chrysis, etc, and not on low settings), and is otherwise slow. Upgrading the ram by 1 gb would cost around $160.

I found a used dell precision 650, dual xeon 2.8 ghz processors,512 kb cache, dual 36.7 gb scsi harddrives, 4 gb ddram, and no vid card for around $200. I know its not much of an upgrade, going from stone age to iron age, perhaps, but i use a 650 with single xeon 3ghz processor and 2 ghz mem. at work, and it runs autocad, photoshop and arcgis fine. I figure I could throw my old 6600gt card in this machine and be ahead of the game. My question is, for the same amount of money is there another system I should be looking for. It's been along time since I computer shopped (2001) so I'm not familiar with systems since then. Any advice would be appreciated.
 
For $200, I don't think you can do better than that Precision 650. But does it have a AGP/ for that video card of yours?
 
This is what the specs are:

Video Type

AGP Pro 110 at 8x/4x/2x/1x (1.5 V) or PCI
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Expansion Bus

Bus type

Dual PCI-X 1.0 (3.3 V only), PCI 2.2 (3.3 V/5.0 V)

AGP Pro 3.0 (1.5 V only)

Bus speed


PCI: 33 MHz; PCI-X: 66/100 MHz

AGP Pro: 66 MHz
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Expansion-card connectors:

Dell Precision 650 computer — Three PCI-X connectors, two PCI slots, and one AGP 8x Pro110 connector

I'm not sure how to interpret this - that it has both AGP and PCI, or either or, depending on how the system is configured. Seller is not very responsive. I'm guessing it has one AGP and several PCI (5?) Does the PCI-x equal PCI express?
 
The service tag is listed as C7G9M0J, but the dell site doesn't recognize it. I'm going to have to get the seller to verify it. The system has to be about 2 - 3 years old. That's not old enough for Dell to stop supporting it is it?
 
The service tag is correct. I guess dell no longer supports it, cause I checked a few other tags and they were the same.
 
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