New video card. PCI, AGP, HELP

IMO that would be a waste of money. Your cpu is slow, the increase in performance is minimal. Save the money and buy a new pc in the future.
 
Roflcore said:
Your cpu is slow, the increase in performance is minimal.
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Are you fucking kidding me? I have both the fx5500 and a 3850, and used both with a 3ghz p4. The difference is HUGE. You apparently have no idea what you're talking about. I went from an fx5500 to an x850xt, the amount of games that can be run with that card even is enough to make it worth upgrading to.

Grab that 3850 for $100, there's really nothing out there it cant run even with a p4. Get yourself 2 Gb of ram while you're at it. Also you can forget about PCI, really nothing better than what you already have there.
 
The CPU will be a bottleneck, and quite a severe one, too. I've used both a 7600 GT and an 8800 GTS with a 3ghz P4, and while the difference was noticeable it paled in comparison to the one I got when I upgraded to a Core 2. It's really, really worth it to save up some more and get a new system. Especially since DDR2 is so cheap compared to DDR.
 
Yes it will be a bottleneck depending on the resolution and the game, but it is fine for almost any game out there and at $100 you couldn't beat the performance increase. I agree that a new system would be better long term but to say that there is a minimal difference between an fx5500 and an hd3850 is retarded.
 
sorry dude, but your rig really isn't worth upgrading right now. save our money and buy a new rig in the future.
 
A P4 is a shitprocessor. Wasting 100$ or even 200$ on that..thing..no, really no. Their might be a performance boost, but it is not worth the price. not even close.
 
I've once upgraded from Geforce Ti4200 (which was MUCH better than FX5500) to 7600GT on a platform with P4 2.4 Ghz. Difference was huge, I was very happy with that choice. I second the 3850 advice, as well as getting more RAM. You still may not be able to play all of the games, but the spectrum of your choices will definitely increase vastly. If you can't be bothered with saving for a new PC, go with 3850.

Leon said:
I've used both a 7600 GT and an 8800 GTS with a 3ghz P4
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Don't even try to compare this to upgrading from terrible FX5500. P4 CPU is actually too powerful for that card.
 
beverageleverage said:
Roflcore said:
A P4 is a shitprocessor.
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Nonsense, like I've said, only a handful of games will need anything more than a p4 and a 3850.
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I played for 2 years with a p4 2,8. you are talking non-sense, that rig can't handle old games on max and new games barely if at all. "only a handful" is the greatest exaggeration I heard for a long time and telling somebody to spent 100-200$ on that is just insane. save the money and buy an awesome computer when you have enough.
 
Roflcore said:
you are talking non-sense, that rig can't handle old games on max and new games barely if at all.
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I can play crysis on p4 and 3850. I have both e6600 and 3ghz p4 machine with agp slot, tried 3850 with both, not enough difference for someone with a $200 budget who has also been dealing a goddam fx5500 all this time to worry about.
 
I can't really help you since I don't have a PCI unit. Good luck though because this stuff can be confusing. Make sure your PSU doesn't blow too.
 
maybe it wouldn't be a waste to upgrade your video card for that system and it could hold together for another year or so. but the thing is that AGP is a thing of the past - I'm not sure they even make AGP cards anymore. and ANY new motherboard you can buy won't have an AGP slot. PCI-Express is the new standard and such cards are so much faster than AGP ever was.

so my point is that, even if you upgrade only the video card now, you will eventually realize you need to upgrade the rest of your system if you want to keep playing new games. I was in pretty much the same situation and I decided to get a completely new system with a very good cpu and video card, and a motherboard that also allows for upgrades in the future, such as dual video cards.
 
I'd just get a new computer all together, but I know you aren't made of money and nobody is. You could get a nice system for 400 if you built it yourself considering you have the monitor and the keyboard, mouse etc. Save up and buy some parts online.
 
There are always better deals/components out there but this is what I'd buy with $600.

Gigabyte ep45 ud3r + e8400
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.181190
4870
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161268
psu
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341010
4gb ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122

$535 w/free shipping, $40 mail in rebate, and a free copy of stalker clear sky

Take your pick of atx case or use an old one.
 
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