Upgrade 9500pro - opinions please!

[Swishbish33]

I have an older system that my brother would like to use to game on a little. It has a AthlonXP 1700+ OC'd to 2 Ghz, 512 MB RAM at 220 Mhz (BH-5, could go higher, but lazy), pretty tight timings, on a NF7-S v2.0 (Nforce 2). I want to upgrade the 9500 pro in hopes that maybe I can string out the life of the computer so he can game on it. The question is, is there a reasonably priced video card ($100-$200) that will be a worthy upgrade? Or is the processor and memory subsystem going to hinder any video card upgrade? Thanks in advance everyone.

 

[Flak Monkey]

The best thing you could get thats agp for under $200 is the 6800nu.

 

[Brucee]

yes what he said....

 

[Skrying]

Normally I wouldnt really mind that subsystem but 512MB of memory is just simply not enough these days. Grab 512MB off of newegg for about $50, save up another $30 and then grab the 6800nu.

 

[Swishbish33]

Normally I wouldnt really mind that subsystem but 512MB of memory is just simply not enough these days. Grab 512MB off of newegg for about $50, save up another $30 and then grab the 6800nu.

Are there any issues with mixing 512mb sticks on the Nforce2? I thought I remember there being an issue with it. I have one stick of 512mb old BH-5 (Buffalo Tech, have served me well)

 

[bobsaget]

Are there any issues with mixing 512mb sticks on the Nforce2? I thought I remember there being an issue with it. I have one stick of 512mb old BH-5 (Buffalo Tech, have served me well)

Nope, on my NF2, I had 256mb Corsair, 256MB I forget, and 512MB Kingston.

No problems there.