Planning on buying a new Graphics card

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#1 NoNam3r
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I was looking at the agp versions of Radeon x1950 pro, Geforce 7600gt and Radeon x1650 pro.

If i get the x1950 pro I will Need to get a new PSU cuz I only got 300 watts I think.

I also have an old Processor. AMD Athlon xp 3200+.

Can you guys tell me if I buy the Radeon x1950 pro will the CPU bottleneck it?

If It does can you tell me if the 7600 GT is better or the x1650 pro.

and Newegg I find 7600GT's for about $170 while the x1650 pro costs about $130
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#2 TheDarthvader
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You will need a new PSU with a X1950 pro Your CPU will severly bottleneck it aswell. 7600GT is better than X1650pro,
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#3 yoyo462001
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yea you will need a new PSU and your cpu is alrite i guess, wont bottleneck it that much.
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Apparently DirectX 10 cards may be coming for AGP in the next few months: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37790 ...so you might want to wait a bit :)
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[QUOTE="Cyborg-21"]Apparently DirectX 10 cards may be coming for AGP in the next few months: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37790 ...so you might want to wait a bit :)



Is that DX10 card better than the cards I listed?

And will my PSU and Processor bottleneck it?
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#6 adam0926
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why not just get a new motherboard with PCI-E and then get a core 2 duo 
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Then I'd have to get a new processor, and new ram that I recently bought. I just want to upgrade this one part.
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#8 DrakeNOwns
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why not just get a new motherboard with PCI-E and then get a core 2 duo adam0926
because thats 300 right there
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