i just built an old system for my computer illiterate parents from spare parts i had laying around on an old socket A mobo with a barton 3200+ processor. right now its got a cheesy geforce 5200 on it and cant really run vista's ultimates aero features. Im looking for a good deal on an old midrange nvidia card, ex)geforce 6600, 7600, with and agp8x interface. let me know if you got one laying around and name a price. . thanks.

 

60-70 is way too much for any of those agp 8 cards....


so vista runs nice on those amd xp cpus?

 

ive had vista "running" on my cpu (athalon 1600, GeForce4/32mb, 1gb ram.)slow as molases, but it worked. 3200 should to way better. personally would have gone with xp...



have you checked ebay?

 

thanks for the tip, ill edit the my prices,

checked ebay, nothing worth looking at, too much new stuff on there. i dont even like to look on ebay anymore. i emailed 2 peeps from craigslist but no response.

the build actually has xp on it right now. i have an old gf 6600 on my vista pc at it barely registers 3.7 on vista rating. 4.1 with a small OC. so i think i need at least a 6600to get nice aero effects.

the cpu actually a xp barton 2500+, i OCed it to 197/11 HTT/fsb (whatever you like to call it), so its running at 3200+. it runs XP fine. i wanna try vista , if its no good i can always go back to XP.

 

You should check out HardForums for computer stuff. Tons of good deals going on since they're enthusiasts and switch out components a lot.

 

i dont really know by the 6000-7000 stuff i mostly go by mb range and waht ar you looking at, i gots one nvidia 64mb and a ati 128mb with tv out, svideo and a saphire chip. if ta interested ill give both of them to ya for 20 shipped lemme kno

 

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If it is AGP 8x that's what he's looking for I think that ATI you have may be either 4x or 8x and may work for him. The 64mb vga will probrably be on par with what he has now.

 

ok it is 8 x for shure because i used it in my lanparty until i upgraded to 256mb it dosent have any numbers on it or anything but i do have a pic ill out it up in a sec...

and ill pop it in my mother board to see for shure to see what speed it is..gimme an hour.


ok i got it in now its a ati radeon 9200 pro 128mb with the saphire chip windows xp has generic drivers for it but you can get ithe real deal downloaded fron ati.com

here is a pic of it




20 bones shipped lemme kno

 

thanks man. but unfortunately, that ati isn't much of an upgrade for vista purposes. thanks though.

 

well i have a radeon x1600x agp with 256 of ddr3 that i can fork over..... i think that would be pretty decent for vista

 

is that the x1600, x1600xt, or x1600 pro, there are pretty big differences between them. i do think that card will suit what i need it for pretty well depending on price. what are you looking for it.

 

i think its the pro.....i doubt its the xt....but give me a decent price....and ill give it shipped (i work at ups, so i can get a nice discount on getting it shipped for ya as well) just send me a pm on it

 

oh, for anyone who cares, i installed vista on the socket A system. it runs fine for what my parents and lil sis will use it for. not any slower than XP. only prob was some of the chipset (force 2 ultra)hardware doesnt like vista, i had to research online to find newer drivers that will work and like vista. The only things that didnt work were the SM bus driver (u can use an nforce 4 one), the ethernet (vista has it own driver that works fine, just cant use the nforce driver) and onbaord audio (which realtek made a fix for, u can download for free). i have 2 gigs of ram so im sure that helps alot, i prolly wouldnt have done it with only 1 gig.

so if anyone has an old nforce 2 rig and wants to try vista, u can do it. just have to find makeshift driver, and make sure u got 2 gigs of ram.

the geforce 5200 works ok on vista, but when u drag windows around its laggy. works alot smoother when you turn off aero features.

 

Z00- i sent you an offer thru pm. im in 90706. i was born in chicago. i miss it over there.is all the snow gone already?

 

nope.....its supposed to snow monday till thurs. .....but it was over 50 today.....( sinus FTL)

 

deal with Z00 never went thru. still looking for an ok agp8x card. anyone?