Hello I want to add a graphics card (I'm using onboard right now) and wanted a bit of advice. I am running an AMD Athlon 3200+ 2.00Ghz with 1gig DDR2 Ram. My motherboard supports PCI express, I think it has AGP. I have been recommended several graphics cards but wanted to know which would be the optimum one to get before my cpu starts bottlenecking any performance gained from the card. Here are the following i've been recommended: -Geforce 8600GT 256mb -Geforce 8600GTS 256mb -Radeon X1950Pro 512mb My next upgrade will be another gig stick of DDR2 Ram but for now a graphics card will probably benefit me the most as I use my PC for gaming. Oh I should also mention I have 500w power supply.
my guess is that any of them depending on the game would bottleneck the cpu some but the 8600 would be the least likely. I suppose it somewhat depends on the games you would be playing.
so what do you have as your main graphics facility then - PCIe or AGP? cause you won't find a 8600 card for agp and a x1950 will put out more than your system can handle ie agp can handle. so for agp you should go with a 7800 or 7600gt at least.
