GPU for a Pentium 4 system + 1Gb DDR400

[Anarchy0110]

IF your board will let you boot for USB then i would say yes

Absolutely right. Of course my mainboard does support that feature

 

[brandonwh64]

OK then, read this guide and then use that link i gave you and update your bios.

http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

 

[Anarchy0110]

OK then, read this guide and then use that link i gave you and update your bios.

http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

Will do it man, then I'll report back to u guys

 

[Anarchy0110]

Ok new decision here ! I started to find somebody at my local area about the Pentium D 820 and I've got one for FREE , well the next step is the GPU
@Brandon: Thanks for your help man, but maybe it's not necessary about updating the BIOS anymore

 

[Melvis]

My m8 runs a AGP 7600GT with a S478 P4 3.2GHz and even that CPU bottlenecks the 7600GT. But with a Pentium D it might run ok.

 

[brandonwh64]

have you already installed the Pentium D 820? if you have and it works then i wouldnt worry about a bios update. if it didnt then i would stick the P4 back in and do a bios update then retry to pentium D

 

[Anarchy0110]

@Brandon: Well man because I see my BIOS version is 0304 so I can run D 820 with no problem. I haven't got that yet, so let assume that I still using the 520 2.8 GHz.
Back to the main problem, which video card
Ok here's what I think I can run: ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro, HD3650, NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT, 8500GT, 8600GT.

 

[Anarchy0110]

My m8 runs a AGP 7600GT with a S478 P4 3.2GHz and even that CPU bottlenecks the 7600GT. But with a Pentium D it might run ok.

Pentium 4 Socket 478 3.2 GHz probably 533 MHz FSB I guess, I bet I can run the 7600GT with my current PC. I have a Pentium 4 520 Prescott 2.8 GHz Socket LGA775 800 MHz FSB

 

[brandonwh64]

what games are you intending on playing with a new video card?

 

[NdMk2o1o]

Get a 5670 if you can afford one, better to have a weak cpu than a weak cpu AND gpu, your psu should handle that fine, and it should pair nice with the pentium D, I strongly dont encourage you to be looking at old tech like "ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro, HD3650, NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT, 8500GT, 8600GT"

 

[Anarchy0110]

Get a 5670 if you can afford one, better to have a weak cpu than a weak cpu AND gpu, your psu should handle that fine, and it should pair nice with the pentium D, I strongly dont encourage you to be looking at old tech like "ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro, HD3650, NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT, 8500GT, 8600GT"

I told at first that assume I'm running the Pentium 4 2.8 GHz not the D 820 man

 

[Anarchy0110]

what games are you intending on playing with a new video card?

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Need For Speed: Carbon, Need For Speed: Most Wanted, Demigod, Aion: The Tower of Eternity, Guild Wars, even Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty but 99% that won't be possible

 

[NdMk2o1o]

Ok new decision here ! I started to find somebody at my local area about the Pentium D 820 and I've got one for FREE , well the next step is the GPU
@Brandon: Thanks for your help man, but maybe it's not necessary about updating the BIOS anymore

@Brandon: Well man because I see my BIOS version is 0304 so I can run D 820 with no problem. I haven't got that yet, so let assume that I still using the 520 2.8 GHz.
Back to the main problem, which video card
Ok here's what I think I can run: ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro, HD3650, NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT, 8500GT, 8600GT.

I told at first that assume I'm running the Pentium 4 2.8 GHz not the D 820 man

No you said that after you said you were getting a Pentium D, though again I would strongly advise not to get any of the aforementioned cards, what is your budget and are you buying online, if so let us have the link to the site you are looking to buy from?

 

[Anarchy0110]

@NDMK2010: First up I'm from Viet Nam so it's wickedly crazy that I can buy from overseas even online
Secondly, I fear a lot about system bottleneck and my budget is about 60-70 USD. So it's hard to find a suitable GPU for my system

 

[NdMk2o1o]

@NDMK2010: First up I'm from Viet Nam so it's wickedly crazy that I can buy from overseas even online
Secondly, I fear a lot about system bottleneck and my budget is about 60-70 USD. So it's hard to find a suitable GPU for my system

Thats fine, though tell people what your budget is in VND and any sites you may be able to use local to you, might help you to get the best out of your budget.

 

[Anarchy0110]

Well it is about 1 million VND, I don't want to have the latest tech unless I can afford an ultimate gaming PC. Just want to have something for me to stick around and able to play some great games (not the newest and high-demanding games like Crysis)
P/S: I swear I'll pwn Crysis by my own in 2560x1600 resolution -Gamer Setting, if I can

 

[brandonwh64]

is there a website that ships to vietnam?

 

[Anarchy0110]

Also to mention that I can't barely pay more for mail-posting fee. It's ridiculous
Well I'm figuring out which is the best one I can get at this moment, in my local city area, not by buying overseas and waiting for the video card to come. Next 2 months will be my birthday and I'm trying to pulling out something great that can enhances my 9-year gaming experience (I'm 15)

 

[brandonwh64]

My advice is, see what they have in your local towns PC shop and report back to us, we can give you advice then

 

[Anarchy0110]

Ok here we go, 950k VND NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT 256Mb GDDR3
900k VND ATI Radeon HD2600Pro, 1.3m VND ATI Radeon HD4650 512Mb GDDR2, 1.2m ATI Radeon HD3650

 

[NdMk2o1o]

I checked on a currency conversion site and 1'000'000 VND equates to around $50 USD look for a 9600GT/GSO that would be a good choice for your budget.

Edit: of those above the 4650 looks like the winner! will your budget go that far? its an extra 300k VND?

 

[brandonwh64]

yea like MDMK said. get the 4650!

 

[MilkyWay]

First up try not double post unless 24hours have passed then i think its considered a thread bump, there is an edit post button.

Second remember its still a Pentium 4 so its going to hold back most cards, a 5570 or something ah maybe you want like a 4xxx series or a 5xxx series because those will have low power consumption and also they if i remember correctly offload processing when watching videos. A 2600pro? maybe a 8600gt, not so fast though depends if you just want something cheap :/

Also i do recommend going to 2gb of ram, it greatly helped on my old Athlon 3400+ 939 pin system.

Any of the cards posted by the above users can do light gaming even on a pentium 4 like the valve games left 4 dead ect.

 

[NdMk2o1o]

Just on a sidenote, I checked and the average annual Vietnamese salary is around 8'000'000 VND thats an 1/8 of a yearly paycheck on a low end GPU That sux man

He just scored a Pentium D 805, so that ups the anti a little bit I guess, from his budget and the cards that are available to him (8600gt, 2600pro, 3650 and 4650) I reccomended the 4650. And yea 2gb would be sweet with that Pentium D and 4650 though I guess he only has budget for GPU or ram, in his case I would go GPU if using XP and just tweak the shit out of the OS.

 

[Anarchy0110]

Yeah the HD4650 would be great. But 1G of Ram, I'm disappointed that I can't get anymore memory
Note: I'm 15 years 290 days old. And my parents have just about 40% of average annual
Of course I'm using Windows XP Pro SP3 32bit