Replacement AGP video card

[aatf510]

I gave a 11 year old cousin my old P4 2.8GHz system w/ 1GB of RDRAM (PC1066) a few years ago.

The video card - a mighty Radeon 9700 Pro which I bought for $500 in 2002 - died recently, and I are trying to replace it with something decent so he can continue to game on it with a 15" LCD monitor.

I found this Diamond 4650 AGP from Newegg, and it has
320 Stream Processors
750MHz GPU Clock (REALLY? on a 4650?)
873MHz Memory Clock (I hope this means 1746MHz effective)
512MB GDDR3
128-bit Memory Inferface (not much more memory bandwidth than a 2002 9700 with slow DDR memory)

Is this a decent replacement?
or should I look for something else?

 

[AzN]

That's a good replacement. Should be 3x faster....

take a look here. http://firingsquad.com/hardwar..._4650_review/page3.asp

Shows 4650 spanking 9700pro 3x fold.

 

[jdjbuffalo]

The graphics card will be much faster than the system but it should work well.

 

[Bullmecha]

I dropped a Radeon 3850 AGP into my old Athlon XP 3.0.. works like a charm but the CPU can't keep pace with the GPU =(

http://www.sapphiretech.com/pr...oduct/?psn=0001&pid=80

If u wanted to see specs

 

[nenforcer]

If you want the absolute fastest AGP card for only a little more money then you want the

Sapphire Radeon 3850 512MB like jdjbuffalo suggests.

It has the 256 bit memory interface you are looking for.

Only drawback is the drivers are not "officially" supported by ATI / AMD and you would only want to run this card with Windows XP even though it supports DirectX 10.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

4650 ftw.

Seriously, at 1024x768, you could run 4xaa in every game (besides anything from the Cry series) and still be help back by the P4.