How to find out what graphics card will work with this PC......

[Max Dread]

Hi all

I have an old PC kicking about which I'm planning to donate to someone. It has an ECS K7S5A motherboard. Up until recently the graphics card was a:

Nvidia RIVA TNT2 Model64 (Innovision Inoo3D Tornado - Nvidia GeForce2)

The GC has now crapped out on me! The guy who the PC is going to would like to get the best GC he can for the PC...... Can anyone help me out in figuring what would be the best GC I can use on that Motherboard. The CPU is an Athlon 1.2ghz and the system has 512mb of RAM.

Cheers

Max

[ultima]

has to be AGP

a 4670
or 3850

in AGP

[Max Dread]

Thanks Ultima.

I know the cards you suggest are a lot better than the GeForce2, but how much better do you think they will perform in that system (1.2ghz CPU/512MB RAM)? Will bottlenecks with things like the RAM and CPU mean that a GC upgrade would have little to no effect on performance? Or is a new GC of this spec likely to have a good effect?

Cheers

Max

EDIT: Also, looking at these card it would seem they are AGP 8x. The mobo states it is up to AGP 4x so I take it they wouldn't work........but I don't know a great deal about these things!

[ultima]

well you did say you wanted the best GC available

so those are it

the next step down

would be a 3650 (40-50 ish dollars)
or a nvidia 5500 ( can find for around 30ish dollars)

both of which would also be a huge step over the tnt 2 card

[Radiator]

They would work with that AGP 4x slot by the way .
But in any case it'd be a massive waste of money purchasing anything to keep that PC running , considering how ancient it is .
And uhh ... nVidia FX5500 vs HD 3650 , the HD 3650 is several TIMES faster .

[-RK]

Power supply?