First post, by Evert
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I've been lurking on this forum for quite some and the retro-bug has bitten me. I'm currently busy working on a early to mid 2000s gaming machine and the platform I've chosen to do this on is an AMD Barton 2500+. So far, I have the following parts:
- AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (at stock speed)
- Arctic Cooling Copper 3 Silent CPU Heatsink & Fan
- Gigabyte GA-7VM400M (Rev 1 running BIOS version F9 and I also need to replace some of the capacitors on the board too)
- 2Gb Kingston Value DDR400 RAM (2x 1Gb Sticks)
- ASUS Xonar DG Sound Card
- Syba SIL 3512 Based PCI SATA Card
- 80Gb Maxtor IDE (I'm hoping to replace it with a 160Gb Sata Hard Drive)
- TP-LINK TP-3269 Gigabit PCI Card (based on a Realtek chipset that supports a lot of OSes)
- Casecom CB-914 Case (comes with a 450W PSU, which I hope has lots of amps on the 3.3V and 5V lines)
- Rosewill RV-350 (350W ATX v1.3 PSU I imported from the USA via Amazon)
My problem is getting a decent AGP graphics card. When I initially got the computer it had a 32Mb Gigabyte built Rage 128 Pro (AGP 4x) in it. I replaced this with an EVGA GeForce 6 6200LE AGP card and it's alright for older games. I would, however, like the ability to play some of them at higher graphics settings. I searched around on the internet, and I stumbled upon this GeForce 7950GT AGP built by what appears to be Leadtek. It's going to cost me about $74 with shipping and import duty. Whould this help me to build the most optimal AXP 2500+ setup or should I rather try and get something else or just be content with the 6200? Thank you so much for your input and advice, the knowledge on this site has guided me so much already and I hope to be a productive member of this forum.