help me out guys

[gowtham]

hi everyone
i have a p4 socket 478 proc on an intel 845 mobo. the mobo burnt up, but the proc is all right. now my dealer is giving me an mercury board with an agp
port. i want to buy a card that will run vista and support new games atleast until dx10 cards become cheap. i want it to cost as low as possible. help me guys, since i need to decide by tomorrow morininig!

[saiaspire]

The GeForce 5200 will do the job. If u want to be a moderate gamer, then go for GeForce 6200.

-Sai

[samrulez]

At minimum get a 6200 or 6600...
Make sure u have a AGP 8X slot on the mobo...

[gowtham]

hi guys
tnx for the repies. can u also tell me the prices of the above mentioned cards
please. also should i go for a 128 mb or 256 mb card. my main use for it is to
run vista and 3ds max. so, i think i should go for the 256mb card. what do u say? please reply fast.

[samrulez]

hi guys
tnx for the repies. can u also tell me the prices of the above mentioned cards
please. also should i go for a 128 mb or 256 mb card. my main use for it is to
run vista and 3ds max. so, i think i should go for the 256mb card. what do u say? please reply fast.

Go for the 128 MB version coz in these card the ram is not the bottle neck so it wiser to get a 128 MB card...so go for a XFX 6200 128 Bit 128 MB and it should cost u around 3.5-4 k

[gowtham]

but vista and the future games are very texture heavy, aren't they?
so i thought it would be better to go for a 256mb card?

[dOm1naTOr]

U can go for 5700LE or an ATI 9600pro for around 3~3,5k or get a 6200. U can run vista but most eye candies won't work on them(only work on Gf 7series or ATI 1XXX series @6k+ starting). If u get any of these cards u can play most games at low to med setings until dx10.

[samrulez]

but vista and the future games are very texture heavy, aren't they?
so i thought it would be better to go for a 256mb card?

They are texture heavy but...

In low end card the ram is not the bottle neck, the 6200 gfx processor is the bottle neck.....so if ur increasing the ram its of no use....

In high end card the ram is the bottle neck and not the gfx processor so increasing the ram helps.....

[gowtham]

tnx everyone!
i am getting a geforce 6600 128mb agp for 3.5k.

[cyrux]

woot!!! ...this cheap ??

[Darthvader]

well its not a gt so he may get it

[thetopcyborg]

what major difference is between the 'GT' version

[dOm1naTOr]

GT cards comes with faster GDDR3 memory and also the core runs at higher clocks. Sometimes there would be more pixel/vertex pipelines would be activated in GT as well as Ultra/GTX compared to normal or LE versions(LE seems like Low end).