In search of new graphics card

On 10 Feb 2006 01:10:39 -0800, "AcidX"

5600 is also an 8X card. Your board has AGP Universal slot, it will run a modern 6love or 7love AGP card.

The PSU could be a limitation, you'd be wanting to avoid mid to higher end gaming cards. Some 300W PSU are MUCH better than others too, if you definitely want to avoid upgrading PSU then post your PSU make, model, 5V and 12V amperage ratings.

Also you wrote "low-budget" card but that could be interpreted differently by differnent people. It'd help to have a price range and a rough guesstimation of how long you expected to keep using the system.

Of your prior tasks descriptions, the newer games are the only thing that'll get the most benefit out of spending more, but clearly will do that. A typical generic answer is a Geforce 6600GT as they've dropped down under $130 after rebates, maybe even sale prices recently. That could be too much for your power supply though, especially if you have a lot of hard drives or the supply doesn't have a lot of 12V ,

Which should give you a rough idea, keeping in mind you'd probably want at least an average framerate of 50 or higher to cover the times when frames drop to lowest levels. These days reviewers also tend to enable much if not all eyecandy, so if you can do without some of that or don't run games at high resolutions, you can get a little more performance than implied on some of the listed cards, especially the lower end and older models.