Best possible graphics card for AMD Sempron Socket 754 (Sempron 2800?)

[aqgon_6]

Hi everyone,

I have been searching for the best possible option but to be honest it's all getting a bit too confusing for me. This is not my main computer, but I intend to try and recover this PC that I previously used until maybe 2008. Maybe the most demanding game I remember playing in it was GTA San Andreas!

It's missing a graphics card and a disk drive, my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro is not working at all anymore and the disk drive that it had was IDE anyway, so I'm trying to upgrade the PC with the best possible graphics card (without asking too much of the CPU) and a "new" SATA disk drive. By asking too much I mean respecting the CPU's limitations, no overclocking please.

Sorry for not knowing more about the CPU, I only know it's an AMD Sempron, Socket 754. If I had to try and guess, I would say maybe the 2800...

Other specs:

1,5GB DDR 1 Kingston RAM (intend to upgrade to at least 2GB, maybe 3GB if it's truly worth it)

Motherboard Asus K8V-X

Power Supply with 425W Max.

I got a Pentium III and recovered it, installed Windows 98 SE and equipped it with all the games I ever played fom the DOS era until 2000, so I would love to recover my Pentium IV equivalent to continue my gaming history from 2000 to maybe 2006/7, making it my Windows XP machine.

Because I actually used this computer as a kid I would really like to respect it's overall configuration, and improve it only through the graphics card and the new disk.

Thanks for all your input and help!

 

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Question from aqgon_6 : "Best possible graphics card for AMD Sempron Socket 754 (Sempron 2800?)"

Hi everyone,

I have been searching for the best possible option but to be honest it's all getting a bit too confusing for me. This is not my main computer, but I intend to try and recover this PC that I previously used until maybe 2008. Maybe the most demanding game I remember playing in it was GTA San Andreas!

It's missing a graphics card and a disk drive, my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro is not working at all anymore and the disk drive that it had was IDE anyway, so I'm trying to upgrade the PC with the best possible graphics card (without asking too much of the CPU) and a "new" SATA disk drive. By asking too much I mean respecting the CPU's limitations, no overclocking please.

Sorry for not knowing more about the CPU, I only know it's an AMD Sempron, Socket 754. If I had to try and guess, I would say maybe the 2800...

Other specs:

1,5GB DDR 1 Kingston RAM (intend to upgrade to at least 2GB, maybe 3GB if it's truly worth it)

Motherboard Asus K8V-X

Power Supply with 425W Max.

I got a Pentium III and recovered it, installed Windows 98 SE and equipped it with all the games I ever played fom the DOS era until 2000, so I would love to recover my Pentium IV equivalent to continue my gaming history from 2000 to maybe 2006/7, making it my Windows XP machine.

Because I actually used this computer as a kid I would really like to respect it's overall configuration, and improve it only through the graphics card and the new disk.

Thanks for all your input and help!

 

[Karadjgne]

As that's probably an AGP slotted mobo, something like the nvidia 8800GT 512 is probably going to be a good card. With 32bit windows, you'll be stuck for 4Gb of ram (3.5Gb usable) and I'd max that with 2x2Gb sticks or 4x1Gb just to maintain dual channel efficiency.

 

[Wolfshadw]

First off, it has an AGP 4x/8x graphics card slot. The best cards made for that interface were the ATI (now AMD) HD3850 AGP and the HD 4650 AGP. Given your processor, I'd probably be looking at an HD2400Pro AGP.

For the hard drive, I'd say pretty much any SATAI or SATAII hard drive will work in there without issue. Not sure about SATAIII. I suspect it would work just fine, but I don't know for sure.

-Wolf sends

 

[aqgon_6]

First off, it has an AGP 4x/8x graphics card slot. The best cards made for that interface were the ATI (now AMD) HD3850 AGP and the HD 4650 AGP. Given your processor, I'd probably be looking at an HD2400Pro AGP.

For the hard drive, I'd say pretty much any SATAI or SATAII hard drive will work in there without issue. Not sure about SATAIII. I suspect it would work just fine, but I don't know for sure.

-Wolf sends

The only HD2400Pro models that I found in my country's online marketplace are PCI Express. Would it be ok if I used that slot instead of the AGP, or is the board optimized for AGP? Thanks for helping

 

[Wolfshadw]

First off, it has an AGP 4x/8x graphics card slot. The best cards made for that interface were the ATI (now AMD) HD3850 AGP and the HD 4650 AGP. Given your processor, I'd probably be looking at an HD2400Pro AGP.

For the hard drive, I'd say pretty much any SATAI or SATAII hard drive will work in there without issue. Not sure about SATAIII. I suspect it would work just fine, but I don't know for sure.

-Wolf sends

The only HD2400Pro models that I found in my country's online marketplace are PCI Express. Would it be ok if I used that slot instead of the AGP, or is the board optimized for AGP? Thanks for helping

No. Your motherboard does not have a PCI Express expansion slot (1 4x/8x AGP and 5 PCI - PCI is not compatible with PCI Express).

-Wolf sends

Edit: If the HD2400pro isn't available, I'd probably be looking for other cards like the Geforce 6xxx series or the ATI X1xxx series.

 

[aqgon_6]

First off, it has an AGP 4x/8x graphics card slot. The best cards made for that interface were the ATI (now AMD) HD3850 AGP and the HD 4650 AGP. Given your processor, I'd probably be looking at an HD2400Pro AGP.

For the hard drive, I'd say pretty much any SATAI or SATAII hard drive will work in there without issue. Not sure about SATAIII. I suspect it would work just fine, but I don't know for sure.

-Wolf sends

The only HD2400Pro models that I found in my country's online marketplace are PCI Express. Would it be ok if I used that slot instead of the AGP, or is the board optimized for AGP? Thanks for helping

No. Your motherboard does not have a PCI Express expansion slot (1 4x/8x AGP and 5 PCI - PCI is not compatible with PCI Express).

-Wolf sends

Edit: If the HD2400pro isn't available, I'd probably be looking for other cards like the Geforce 6xxx series or the ATI X1xxx series.

Thanks a lot, actually the ones on the ATI X1xxx series are way easier to find with an AGP interface. Probably will buy a x1650 Pro if everything goes well.

Thank you everyone for your quick replies!