Recommend a new graphics card...

[AtomicCEO]

I mentioned in some other thread how I never actually buy a new PC, I just upgrade one or two parts at a time every few years.

 

Well, it's come time to get a new graphics card. It is now officially the weakest link.

 

What's a good AGP graphics card to go for. I'm not into gaming so I don't need top of the line... I just need to upgrade whatever 2 or 4MB PCI card I've been using for the last 6 years.

 

Also... isn't there some AGP V1 vs. AGP V2 issue to look out for? I remember a friend of mine who get frying cards because his motherboard wasn't the right version of AGP slot or something.

[H8tank]

You are doing no gaming?

 

Then there really isn't a reason to upgrade.

 

Some AGP cards use diferrerent voltages, there are keys in the motherboard slot so the wrong card will most likely not fit.

 

If you really want a new card...

 

Again, you really don't need one, but the Nvidia Geforce cards are the most compatible and problem free, an entry level 6 series is a great card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814121542

 

Or, you can use an older Geforce 4mx card, I have some used I could send you for a few bucks.

[AtomicCEO]

I do NO gaming on the PC. Not even solitaire.

 

I do use it for video and audio editing though. I realized recently that a slower PC with less RAM at work gets a better framerate playing back DV-AVI files than my home computer. The hard drives are the same speed, so I figured the problem must be the graphics card (the oldest thing in my computer).

 

Maybe I'm wrong... but I could use an upgrade anyway.

 

That one you linked to has a DVI port... I could upgrade my next machine into a Media Center....

[NSab]

Radeon 9000 card, should be fine and cheap enough.