First post, by appiah4
- Rank
- l33t++
In 2005 I went straight from Socket A straight to Socket AM2 so I missed 754/940, and 939; in time I want to build systems for each of them. The first of these will be a Socket 754 PC. I'm building it with a Sempron64 3000+ as it's all I have for this socket currently but I will upgrade it to an Athlon64 3200+ or 3400+ as soon as I find one for cheap. My problem is choosing an AGP card for this build. What I have are:
Radeon 9800 (Non-Pro)
Radeon X1950PRO
Radeon HD3850
Radeon HD4650
Target is games from 2000-2003, maybe a bit of 2004. I'd rather stick to ATI hardware for this period, and ideally would have used an X800/X850 AGP, but I don't have one. Would the X1950PRO be too fast or too modern for this build? And if I am going a bit beyond the contemporary for this socket, should I just go crazy with it and go for HD3850 or HD 4650?
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