Looking for advice.... Best low profile AGP graphics cards for WinXP/DirectX 9 \ VOGONS

Looking for advice.... Best low profile AGP graphics cards for WinXP/DirectX 9

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First post, by dicky96

Posted on 2018-10-25, 13:03

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Hi guys
As the title says, what would be a good choice for a low profile AGP graphics card for a Pentium 4 PC running XP + Direct-X 9

I'm looking to play games circa 2000.

I have another faster XP PCI-e system for games later / more demanding than that era.

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Rich

Reply 1 of 5, by agent_x007

Posted on 2018-10-25, 14:06

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Low Profile single slot, or Low Profile double slot ?

Reply 2 of 5, by appiah4

Posted on 2018-10-25, 14:48

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What you want is a Radeon HD4350 AGP

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?I … N82E16814121310

Reply 3 of 5, by dicky96

Posted on 2018-10-25, 16:12

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agent_x007 wrote:
Low Profile single slot, or Low Profile double slot ?

Thre is only one AGP slot, but I notice that one of the heatsinks on the motherboard (behind and to the left of the AGP slot) deliberately has a stepped shape so it could accommodate an AGP card with a heatsink/fan or a double width blanking plate if that is what you mean.

How do I post pics on here? I tried with the upload attachment button but it didn't work

What you want is a Radeon HD4350 AGP

Hmmm there don't seem to be any of those around in low profile AGP at the moment, the link you gave me is PCI-e, Even if it was AGP, and I am pretty new to all this so may I ask, isn't that card from around 2008, runs DirectX 10 and so a bit 'overkill' or 'not appropriate' for a system to play games from circa 2000.

Considering I also have another Windows XP system with PCI-e that currently has a Radeon X1850 and I was thinking I could maybe upgrade that to an X1950 or whatever the fastest DirectX 9 card would be - and there seem to be a lot of cheap PCI-e cards around compared to AGP ones...

Also the PSU in my slimline Compaq PC may not handle a really power hungry GPU?

Thanks for the advise though and no offense meant if I am talking nonsense here.

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rich

Reply 4 of 5, by The Serpent Rider

Posted on 2018-10-25, 16:49

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DirectX 10+ cards = no dithering in 16-bit modes and no win 9x support.

You're pretty much limited to Radeon 9600SE and GeForce 5200/5500/5700LE/6200.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 5 of 5, by dicky96

Posted on 2018-10-25, 18:08

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@Serpent Rider

Thanks for that. There is so much info out there when you google around, that it is hard to find out what you really need to know.

As I said, I was looking for something appropriate to the rig and games of that time, I have a couple other PCs that I can fit more powerful PCI-e cards so any 'limits' are not really a problem.

The Radeon 9600SE, Geforce 5200 and Geforce 6200 all seem readily available in low form factor AGP and there isn't a huge price difference between them.

From googling the Geforce 6200 seems the fastest of those. Are there any other factors such as compatibilty.

Rich

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