My asrock K7VT4Apro, AMD Sempron 3000+ (aging but still capable), ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (althought the X800 would be better) and 1.50 Gb memory, handles SHII-GW very well. A modest system but adiquate for the present.

For AGP (which is what yours is), you can get a 128mb ATI 9800 pro which worked well with SHIII on my p4 1.7 I just retired.


I just built a E6400 dual core, with a 7600GT OC and a gig of crucial last month. Talk about smooooooooooth. I'm even pulling 25FPS in F4:AF over the FLOT at 1024 with sliders at max.

Yeah its important that you pickup the right card for the slot you have or els it wont work on your computer. And like mookiemookie said, You should look for a card that have/support for PCI slot.

I've got a pair of GeForce 6600s in SLI, and a gig of memory inside, with another on the way for Christmas. I can't wait. She's gonna run like butter with 2 gigs in there! ;)

/computer nerdery

Yes, the difference from 1 to 2 gigs is almost as noticable as from 512 to 1024. :up:

With SH3, you should be able to play with everything smooth turned up all the way on a 6800-series nVidia or X800 series ATI.

I personally have:

Pentium D 805 @ 3.8GHz
ASUS P5ND2-SLI
2x1GB G.SKILL 533MHz @ 667MHz
eVGA 7900GT @ 667/851
WD SATA 250GB 7200RPM

Hopefully with another video card inside for Christmas.

The best price/performance range are these:

7950GT from Nvidia

X1900XT from ATI/AMD

Both are almost the same in performance and price, and both give the best performance for their price range. The ATI card is supposed to perform slighly better with less card memory.

...but you might have to get a new MB as I think these two don't come in AGP.

Otherwise go with a 6800 Ultra or 6800GT, they used to be top end cards but should be cheaper than most newer mid range cards now.

That board has an AGP slot.

You can´t put a Pentium 4 on that board, it doesn´t fit. You could upgrade it with a faster AMD CPU for Socket 754.

Fastest AMD socket 754 CPU is the one I've got, an AMD 3000+; it's 2.0 Ghz.

ABBAFAN, do you know how fast your CPU is?

From what I've seen the fastest Athlon 64 for for socket 754 available is the 3200.

If you have that already, I might consider not even bothering with a CPU upgrade. If you have something like a Sempron, you might want a bit more power though.

If you just have to have the best, then know you have to get a new motherboard as well. This could turn out expensive though. If you want to buy all current generation stuff, then you will need a new motherboard, new graphics, new CPU, AND... new RAM, since the newer boards are DDR2.
That could become real expensive.

So you options are:

Buy an older but faster AGP card, keep the old motherboard and CPU.

Buy a more recent motherboard with PCI-E, that supports DDR1... maybe a socket 939 or something. They still have decent CPUs for those. This would stunt your future CPU upgrades, though the next gen graphics cards would run fine on this too, if you wanted to upgrade again sometime.

Finally, if you have money to burn, buy the latest stuff, new Motherboard, RAM, CPU and graphics card.

If all else fails...

STEAL SETH'S PC!!!!:lol:

:rotfl::rotfl:Well, i did some research...Have to change my motherboard to be able to use the GF 8800 GTX...... Will cost me § 150 more........ :nope:
So if you want to steal my pc, be my guest....I have insurance, and that would pay me enough to get a new rig in excellent conditions!!! :up::up:

my cpu is a AMD XP3400 64 bit is this powerful enough?


If i simply upgrade the graphics card to a more powerful one
which supports pci and works with a 64 bit processor which one is best?

how much more of an improvement would the 7950GT from Nvidia be over the current one? (fx6200 AGP)and does this have pixel shading?

I dont think you get the 7950Gt to PCI. (or the X1900XT)

The best AGP card is the nVidia 7800GS 256MB, which is a kick ass card. It is many times better than the one you have.

But the best thing would be to get a new motherboard that supports PCI Express. If you want to get it cheap, get one with AMD 939 socket. (Then you would have to change the cpu too, but the 939`s are cheap now)

Why do you have to change ur motherboard? It supports PCI-E doesn't it?

Btw, ABBAFAN, i'd suggest waiting a little more longer, there's no point in buying any card that wasn't designed for DX10, you need to think of this as a longer term investment (unless ur filthy rich and change ur GPU every month).