Hello, my friend has an HP a220n desktop and wants to upgrade the graphics card for one last kick in his system...Here's what he has.
-Amd Athlon XP 2600+
-2x 512mb ram
-120 gb hd 5400rpm (he's considering an upgrade on that one too)
-integrated graphics..
He's just started playing a few old games and finds his system haveing some trouble...I suggested he get a graphics card.
He's playing Halo and a few other old games too (not sure what ones )
We've decided that a 7600gs AGP card would suffice for his system nicely as pretty much anything else he puts in that is moer powerful will bottleneck his system even more than a 7600gs..
He likes the price of the 7600gs on newegg (aroudn $140 usd i think) and is now considering buying a faster, 7200 rpm hd..
My question is:
Is the 7600 a good choice for the 140 $$ that he wants to spend on a graphics card? He would love to get more $$ to buy a better card, but he doesn't have that much..I just want to help him choose the best for his budget.
Note: I have seen Tom's latest agp platform review on the x1950 agp card and checked out the VGA charts too...
Thanks.
-Amd Athlon XP 2600+
-2x 512mb ram
-120 gb hd 5400rpm (he's considering an upgrade on that one too)
-integrated graphics..
He's just started playing a few old games and finds his system haveing some trouble...I suggested he get a graphics card.
He's playing Halo and a few other old games too (not sure what ones )
We've decided that a 7600gs AGP card would suffice for his system nicely as pretty much anything else he puts in that is moer powerful will bottleneck his system even more than a 7600gs..
He likes the price of the 7600gs on newegg (aroudn $140 usd i think) and is now considering buying a faster, 7200 rpm hd..
My question is:
Is the 7600 a good choice for the 140 $$ that he wants to spend on a graphics card? He would love to get more $$ to buy a better card, but he doesn't have that much..I just want to help him choose the best for his budget.
Note: I have seen Tom's latest agp platform review on the x1950 agp card and checked out the VGA charts too...
Thanks.