What is the best graphics card for me?

Intel P4 2.26 GHz

512 MB RAM

Intel board (865GBF) next to 64 MB built-in video memory and AGP.

I want to upgrade to 256 MB video memory.

What is best for my PC?

Geforce or ATI? And which model?

What is the best graphics card for me?

If you are trying to play the latest games, dreadfully that processor will not cut it. As the latest games require the minimum specs to be at most minuscule a 2.5Ghz processor.



Obviously the best video card for anyone would be the most expensive one. But do you have the money to attain the most expensive video card? The most expensive/most powerful consumer video card is the NVidia GeForce 8800GTX, which costs 500 dollars up.



Lastly, since you have an dated motherboard, probably you have an AGP slot, which restrictions the video cards you can buy, as most of them are now on PCI-Express. You can force out the internet for the most powerful AGP cards available.
Nvida are the best graphics cards around but if you dont want to have Nvida later i would say ATI but other I would go for nvida

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Matters if the motherboard have a AGP slot or not. The best agp is the Radeon x1950 pro. The cpu will, however, will slow the video card down in some games. If you not conversation about using 3d games, may not entail a video card, but upgrading the memory from 512mb to 1gb would be helpful. But again, it adjectives depends on what you are trying to get the computer to do.
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ATI, noticeably, but AGP cards are expensive. A good one might cost you 200 bucks. Log on to e-zshop.network. I bought mine from there and I am completely self-righteous. Click the "Electronics" Tab and search for ATI Radeon 256MB AGP. Thousands of possibilities. Just get sure it's a new one, because the used ones might be broken.