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Hi
First of all, specs of my desktop
Processor: P4 2.0 GHz
Motherboard: Asus P800 (without inbuilt video card)
Ram: 1 GB (512MB X 2) (Not sure it's DDR 1 or DDR 2)
AGP Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (128MB)
HDD: WD 320 GB IDE (C: 50GB & D: 250GB)
PCI Sound Card: Maya 44V Digital
Monitor: LG W2361V
OS: Windows XP Pro Media Center Edition SP3
I want to replace the Video Card. Don’t know which one is better PCI or AGP.
Most important, that should be compatible with my old motherboard. I want good results if with HDMI socket that will be great because my monitor has one.
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AGP is much better than PCI. If the only thing you can upgrade is your graphics card, go for an AGP graphics card. It also depends on what you are doing. If all you want is to play high def movies/videos etc, there are Radeon HD 2400Pros in AGP format for cheap and they will do HDMI. If you want to game, i know AGP cards go all the way up to Radeon HD 3850s, but these are significantly more expensive than their PCI Express counterparts and the HD3000 series cards are notably behind with regards to performance, compared to the newer HD4000 series cards.
By all means, the best thing you can actually do is do a major upgrade, eg new processor, ram, motherboard, etc. I recently upgraded from a Pentium 4 and a P4P800-E Deluxe to an AMD Athlon64 X2 and K9N Platinum. You can keep the rest, such as your DVD drive and hard disks. Upgrading to a newer motherboard means upgrading to better graphics cards which are now based on the PCI Express standard.
Btw. Your motherboard would support only DDR1 and not DDR2
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