A friend of mine wants to get into WOW so he bought a computer off a friend of his for like $50.
He asked me to fix it up. It only had 512MB of ram, but I had an extra stick laying around that I hadn't touched in several years, so I gave it to him.
Everything works fine. I reinstalled the OS, installed WOW, installed the wireless card he bought, and its all good.
Except for gaming; He only has an AGP ATI 7500 with 64MB of ram.
WOW plays, but only in windowed mode in 800x600 with everything on low. It looks like an n64 version of WOW.
I'd like to find him a cheap card with at least 128MB of ram (prefer 256MB), like a gforce 5200 or something. Just something to allow him to play full screen at 1024 res with medium settings.
I found a few cards on Newegg, but I'm out of the loop as to what was a good performer or not. He doesn't have much money, so even $40 is a stretch for him right now. So its really important that I'm able to get the best bang for the buck, and every buck counts.
He asked me to fix it up. It only had 512MB of ram, but I had an extra stick laying around that I hadn't touched in several years, so I gave it to him.
Everything works fine. I reinstalled the OS, installed WOW, installed the wireless card he bought, and its all good.
Except for gaming; He only has an AGP ATI 7500 with 64MB of ram.
WOW plays, but only in windowed mode in 800x600 with everything on low. It looks like an n64 version of WOW.
I'd like to find him a cheap card with at least 128MB of ram (prefer 256MB), like a gforce 5200 or something. Just something to allow him to play full screen at 1024 res with medium settings.
I found a few cards on Newegg, but I'm out of the loop as to what was a good performer or not. He doesn't have much money, so even $40 is a stretch for him right now. So its really important that I'm able to get the best bang for the buck, and every buck counts.