Please help recommend me a video card :)

[tony.willson]

Hi guys, well I'm new here, and I got a sweet deal on a computer due to my brother having connections at the county
Anyway, I mostly play strategy games, and I really want to play these two on high settings:
Age of Empires 3
World in Conflict
These are my specs:
CPU: 3.2 GHz Pentium 4
Motherboard: Intel Bonanza D875PBZ (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DIMM, LAN)
Motherboard chipset: Intel Canterwood i875P
Memory: 1 Gb DDR3200 RAM
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 128 Mb
HDD: Maxtor 80 Gb 7200 RPM
Now I used the Everest PC diagnosis program to get these, but unfortunately it wouldn't tell me the wattage of the PSU. Is there a program that can tell you?

[barthez]

Video
Your Intel mainboard (motherboard) has only support for AGP videocards, since 2 years PCI-express is the new standard for videocards. Nevertheless manufacturers still make videocards with the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port);

Possible solutions would be:
HD2400 Pro 256 mb € 60
HD2600 XT 256 € 90
X1950 XT Pro 256 € 150
Geforce 7800 GS 256 mb € 155
Geforce 7900 GT 256mb € 190
Geforce 7900 GT 512 mb € 205

Im only mentioning the chips because almost all the manufacturers make those kind of cards; Asus, Sapphire, Club3D, EVGA, etc

Keep in mind that most of the cards are a bit older (older generation) and/or ment for budget "use"




RAM
Nowadays with all the new emerging games and Vista, 2 GB ram in your system is more common and its almost necessary to upgrade :)


Wattage
Its not possible to make a readout of the wattage in your PSU (Power Supply Unit). The only way to get information about the Wattage of the PSU is to open your pc case.