AGP video card...again

[Mindflux]

So, this is an exact duplicate of a post I made a couple weeks ago (copied below). I liked the replies I got and was going to buy this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814129097

But my brother (who I was splitting the cost with) was being a jackass and it took this long to convince him we should buy it, but now the sale is over so it's not worth doing. So basically I'm looking for some more suggestions.

I found this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130100

is this a decent card? Anything better for similar price?

 

OLD POST:

My dad just got a new and enormous monitor (1920x1200 or something like that) and his old video card is having trouble running things now.

He has a sapphire radeon 9600pro now, I figured it should be pretty easy to find something newer and fairly cheap that will run better but I don't know what to get. I was look at this but I can't really tell whether or not it'd be a big improvement.

He doesn't really need something incredible, the most stressful thing he does is run WoW which isn't all that intensive.

So, any suggestions on a cheap AGP card that'll still be a nice improvement on his crappy 9600? (looking for cheap here, he can hardly tell how bad it's running now so trying to keep this under $100)

[MACarter02]

the second link is pci-e

 

this is that card

 

make sure if you buy it to hit the diy storefront and use the link there.

[Mindflux]

yeah I noticed that subsequently (edited out now).

So, anyone have any suggestions and/or is that a decent card?

[wevsspot]

I love nVidia based cards. But I've had some dandy ATi cards too.

 

If it were me here is what I'd get . . .

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814102093

 

It's a little more expensive but a solid investment for running a monitor with a native resolution of 1920X1200.

 

And IMHO, the 9600Pro was a very good card for the mid-range segment at the time. It just wasn't ever designed to run a huge LCD monitor.

[Mindflux]

that's ~double what I want to spend. The whole computer is going to be replaced in 6-12 months so it's not really worth it.

[wevsspot]

For general web surfing, office applications etc. the 7300 would be fine running the monitor at it's native resolution (1920X1200 tells me it's a 24" widescreen LCD monitor right?)

 

Just be aware that if your dad is going to do any gaming that he will probably have to use a resolution of 1024X768 or if he's lucky 1280X1024 - and these would be at low quality settings and probably without any AA or AF.

 

There isn't any way that the 7300 is going to run that monitor while gaming at the monitor's native resolution of 1920X1200.

 

I don't own one, but I've checked out a few online reviews and they clearly show that 7300 is good up to about 1024X768 on some game titles (assuming that 30fps is the minimum playable frame rate).

[Mindflux]

all he plays right now is WoW and he doesn't even realize how crappy it is.

He's running it on a 9600pro. So it should be a huge improvement.

I don't know what rez he runs the game in but it runs around 7-20fps from the looks of it.

(And it's an unnecessary 28inches)

[n_w95482]

The X1650 Pro is the best card for the money. I put a non-Pro in my friend's computer a couple of weeks ago and it runs WoW quite nicely at 1280x1024, max settings, and even some AA and AF.