Video Card Suggestions

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mokkapoop

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I am looking to help out a friend who wants to get a new video card for his computer. We both have the same exact computer (got it from work) and it has an AGP 4X slot (AGP 2.0 of course).

Now, with this being so, what is the BEST video card we can or should get? I would like a 128bit video card as well.

We each have a Dell Optiplex GX260. Specs can be see here:

http://www.austincc.edu/cloud/manuals/Dell/GX260/specs.htm

Please let us know, and links would help as well. Thanks in advance!
 
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mokkapoop said:
I would like a 128bit video card as well.
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What does that even mean?

128 bit memory interface? If so that is old and slow compared to the current generation video cards. (though that is what my 6600GT - AGP has, and it is all I need personally)

128 bit color? doesn't exist, you are looking at 32bit color for most computer things.. There is talk of higher, but I am not sure why.

128 pipelines? That only comes on the very top of the line 8800GTX cards, and those are PCI-E only and would be bottlenecked by the rest of your computer anyways even if it could fit.

128MB of RAM? Sure, you do want at least that, though 256 - 512 is probably more useful these days, but don't get too caught up in the amount of memory, make that 2nd to choosing the right card / chipset.
 
Is 128 bit or 64 bit better?

I am NOT speaking of RAM , I am speaking about the BIT. Plain and simple.
 
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