Question about compatibility

[Cottonwood00]

I'm looking to upgrade my vid card but im still running a fairly old computer and by old i mean 939 single core computer with a 939dual vista board. This motherboard has AGP and PCI express on it which was my main selling point but i waited so long to upgrade to a newer video card and now the newest version are PCI express 2.0. So my question is, is it possible to put one of these new cards (PCI 2.0) into older PCI express? IF so what card do you recommend for good gaming performance for under $200?

Thanks for any responses

 

[kllrnohj]

Yes, it will work, but your CPU is going to hold you back (My X2 @ 3ghz is bottlenecking my 4850). That said, the under $200 market is 4850 territory - can't go wrong with it.

 

[yang88she]

keep in mind that the pci slot maybe performing @ 4x or 8x speeds...so double check your mobo specs, b/c your mobo may even become a bottle neck

 

[Cottonwood00]

I appreciate the responses and i agree lol, My vidcard performance will def be bottlenecked but this is all in a plan to upgrade my stuff slowly. I hear there are some good price cuts on AMD CPU's so i might swing for a mobo and a cpu oh and some ram too. Any recommendation for a nice budget gamer would be cool. Thanks

 

[kllrnohj]

Well, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130181
and http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037 would be a potent combination that should last for a while (and OC to ~4ghz I think) for ~$260 + ~$60 for 4gb of RAM, or ~$35 for 2gb.

On the AMD side I'm hesitant to recommend anything, as the X2 @ 3ghz still bottlenecks a 4850 (comparing my results to various reviews, it bottlenecks it by a pretty large amount), and the Phenom isn't really worth the cost over an Intel system.