What is the best GFX Card for AGP I Have 2.8GHZ Pentium 4 with nvidia geforce 6200 and 1GB Ram and am getting a quick upgrade until i can afford a really good PC atm 2 sticks of 1024MB DDRam,700W PSU,And A GFX Card New one is what i am purchasing but out of these which is best?" Gigabyte ATI HD4650 AGP 1GB 128-bit GDDR2, Dual Link DVI-I / D-sub / HDMI / HDCP, Fan PowerColor HD3650 1G DDR2 DH AGP PowerColor ATI HD4670 1G DDR3 AGP PowerColor ATI Radeon HD3650 512M DDR2 DH AGP Sapphire HD4650 1G AGP Anyhelp greatly Appreciated thnx in advance. -Halo101
HIS IceQ H467QS1GHA Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 AGP 4X/8X HDCP Ready Video Card This Card Good?? I was thinking of purchasing either the above or ATI 3650 With 4 sticks 500MB DDR Ram 700W PSU And i have pentium 4 2.8GHZ
Doesn't matter which is the best or not. They won't handle anything approaching modern loads. Also your PSU is wasting a fuckload of power, I'm running an overclocked HD6950 and I can manage to survive on 600W.
Incorrect. The watt rating is the maximum wattage it is capable of supplying, not the amount it consumes. The amount it consumes is determined by the sum of the power draws of each component. 700W just means he can have approximately 700W worth of components drawing from it before it overloads.
Don't you patronise me. You should however be aware of the efficiency bell curve where the power supply consumes more energy than is necessary for sub-optimal draw (from memory, around 70-85% of PSU wattage). The difference between watts consumed and watts supplied to the computer is dissipated as heat. The point I am making is twofold: - He's overspent on the PSU - The PSU's life expectancy is slightly lower as a result of the lower load
The efficiency bell curve you mention isn't so significant these days, as most PSUs have high efficiency (often over 80%, some as high as 95%) over quite a wide subset of their supply capacity, and overspend is always better than underspend when talking about PSUs. Given that he's using a P4 which are enormously inefficient he could well be using as much power as your computer does, or more. Assuming he's building his own replacement machine he can reuse the powersupply in his new build because it will power more hungry components than he currently has, especially with a more efficient processor, which anything newer will be. As for reduced life, it will last far longer than any of his computers, shortened or not. I have PSUs that are well over a decade old that are still running just fine.
