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You'll be able to play any game before 2006 with an Athlon XP still. That's when Oblivion came out, and that's a good time frame for the era of multi-core to begin. You can surely play several games from 2006-2007 with only 1 core, but it's just a general time frame.
The finest AGP card is the Radeon 3850. If you have no illusions of playing games from the past several years, you'd want to pair that in there.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102730
Though being AGP that's way overpriced. A PCI-e 4850 is about that same price.
It's a better choice to invest your money into a new mobo, cpu, and ram. Socket AM3 with an Athlon II (a CPU that's anywhere from 2 to 4 cores with most variants under $99) is your best bet.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...i&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=PRICE
The finest AGP card is the Radeon 3850. If you have no illusions of playing games from the past several years, you'd want to pair that in there.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102730
Though being AGP that's way overpriced. A PCI-e 4850 is about that same price.
It's a better choice to invest your money into a new mobo, cpu, and ram. Socket AM3 with an Athlon II (a CPU that's anywhere from 2 to 4 cores with most variants under $99) is your best bet.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...i&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=PRICE