[ZiaMan]

Recently had Radeon X800 GTO video card fail at 1 year and 3 weeks. Would like to replace with smart choice based on limits of PC mb, cpu, etc..
Current PC specs (Compaq Presario S4300NX):
*Intel P4, 2400 Mhz HT (Northwood)
* MBO - Asus P4SD-LA
*Chipset - Intel Springdale-G i865G
* 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) (Corsair XMS, 2 x 512 Mb, 184-pin)
* 4x/8x AGP
* Thermaltake Silent Purepower ATX 420W

Know that this PC is esentially old and limited but must keep for time being. Can I go to higher level card that ATI X800GTO and still take advantage of card capabilites based on limits of PC? Would I be throwing money away (ignoring AGP vs PCI-Express arguments) by going to ATI 1650 XT, ATI X1950 PRO, etc. because of PC CPU or other bottlenecks? Was the ATI X800GTO bottlenecked by PC?

Thanks for any feedback.
Ziaman

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given your cpu and ram i would recomend going with an nvidia 6600 6800 card. a midrange 7series would be slowed by cpu. I don't know much about ati but x1xxx series is way to expensive and quality for your system.

[hudihoo]

given your cpu and ram i would recomend going with an nvidia 6600 6800 card. a midrange 7series would be slowed by cpu. I don't know much about ati but x1xxx series is way to expensive and quality for your system.

[ZiaMan]

hudihoo,
Thanks for the recommendation. Will check those out.
Where can I learn detail about video card specs relative to needed CPU power required? Does this get reviewed by sites when video cards first come out?
...ZiaMan