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Upgrade for a 7600GS AGP

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First post, by Almoststew1990

Posted on 2020-10-04, 16:52

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I have a dual P4 system that is currently using a 7600GS and the GPU is a huge bottleneck on games around 2006-2008. Can anyone suggest an upgrade for this card?

This is a project PC and I have several PCI-E cards and systems that will play these games much better but it's more to see how far I can push a PC from 2001!

I've found an ATi 4650 which seems to be the best bet before you get to £lol money for 7950GTs etc, however I recall viscous rumours of drivers being an issue for these cards. I would be using Windows XP and 7.

Any other suggestions?

Reply 1 of 7, by Doornkaat

Posted on 2020-10-04, 17:02

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Sorry this is not an answer to your question but I never heard of dual Pentium 4 boards. What model is that?

Reply 2 of 7, by Almoststew1990

Posted on 2020-10-04, 17:13

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Doornkaat wrote on 2020-10-04, 17:02:

Sorry this is not an answer to your question but I never heard of dual Pentium 4 boards. What model is that?

Sorry it's a Dual Xeon socket 603 PC. The Xeons are based on the netburst architecture like all the P4s are.

Reply 3 of 7, by Doornkaat

Posted on 2020-10-04, 18:15

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Oh, ok. I thought somebody managed to hack up two P4s together and I didn't know.

Reply 4 of 7, by Errius

Posted on 2020-10-04, 18:29

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Related discussion: Fastest AGP card ever made.

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Reply 5 of 7, by Hanamichi

Posted on 2020-10-04, 18:57

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In the UK the X1950 AGP goes pretty cheap on fleabay. Above that you need 7950/4650/4670/3850

https://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/feature-ati-r … sm20-benchmarks

https://www.hartware.de/2006/12/20/sapphire-r … 50-pro-agp-2/6/

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Reply 6 of 7, by RichB93

Posted on 2020-10-04, 20:14

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Are you sure the CPUs aren't going to be a bottleneck? Even Pentium D's struggled; Netburst just wasn't that good. You wanna go Core 2 if you want to start playing games from that era.

Reply 7 of 7, by The Serpent Rider

Posted on 2020-10-04, 21:03

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DX9 cards are bottleneck for games after 2007. Some top tier beasts like 1950XTX were fine until 2008 though, but they are not available on AGP.

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