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i have been playing Game Age of empires III on my PC and well the graphics are sluggish (But Playable)
i was wondering if you guys can help pick out another Video card that will have the game more fun to play (I.E better graphics)

i would like to buy from Newegg.com, price range is less than 100$


Thax for u help

my PC specs are

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
Memory: 1534MB RAM
Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
Video : NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 10/22/2006 12:22:00, 4527488 bytes (The drive is uptodate)

spec for comp are here
http://support.dell.com/supportedoc...ut.htm#1185360
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actually u prefer Nvidia or ATI?

maybe u can get a ATi Radeon HD3870 or a Geforce 9600GT... these cards are more than enough for the game u wish to play! But games are developing too fast nowadays, consider a better graphic card...

You need to upgrade ur motherboard to plug in 1 of these cards... And maybe PSU too!!!
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Hello and welocme to PCHelpForum.

I see you only have a AGP slot you will never be able to have a Geforce 9600GT or a card of that specification.

You could possibly buy a little better PCI card than you have now but it will not be of much greater specification.

I will mark your thread as "Open" ready for the team to give you some sugestions.

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thax guys
but i rather not upgrade MB or PSU..
this is an old PC, i was wondering if spending 100 $ would improve the grapics..

any other cards other there i could use..

how about PCI cards??
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Default Re: noobie needs help upgrading Video card
What was mentioned were PCI cards.

Your machine cannot not be upgraded much your PCI card is AGP.a low graded slot.


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Ya... What i mentioned was PCI-E x16 cards... if u don't upgrade your motherboard, u don't have that slot to plug in these cards...

I see you want to continue using your existing motherboard, so you need to find an AGP card... Most of the manufacturer had stop concentrating on manufacturing AGP cards!!! U can hardly find a better performance AGP card than a PCI-E one..
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damn
i guess i will just use th e PC as is...
till i can update the whole thing

thax for ur help guys

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