If you want an honest response I will need to take some time and look.

So I might reply tomorrow evening.

Another consideration is that most those cards would probably play those games at 8X you are restricted by you motherboard to 4X so there might be some delays and compromises that you would not see with an 8X motherboard.

There is nothing around this except upgrading the motherboard.

Anyway I will look into the card selection tomorrow and will reply. It is about my bed-time tonight.

Originally Posted by jephree

If you want an honest response I will need to take some time and look.

So I might reply tomorrow evening.

Another consideration is that most those cards would probably play those games at 8X you are restricted by you motherboard to 4X so there might be some delays and compromises that you would not see with an 8X motherboard.

There is nothing around this except upgrading the motherboard.

Anyway I will look into the card selection tomorrow and will reply. It is about my bed-time tonight.

Okay thanks alot for your help.

After looking at what Newegg has for under $100 I chose this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143056

System Requirements:

Intel Pentium® III, Celeron®, AMD® Duron™, Sempron™, or Athlon™ class processor or higher

128MB of RAM

CD or DVD-ROM Drive

An available AGP 2.0 slot

35MB available hard disk space (50MB for full installation)

Microsoft Windows XP

A minimum 300W system power supply

An available hard disk drive power dongle (smaller floppy disk drive connector is not sufficient)

Can you verify that you have at least a 300W PSU and are running XP?

The next question is whether or not it will play certain games at 4X speed.

What games were you looking to play?

Also do you know your processor? Go back to CPU_Z under CPU.

Originally Posted by jephree

After looking at what Newegg has for under $100 I chose this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143056



Can you verify that you have at least a 300W PSU and are running XP?

The next question is whether or not it will play certain games at 4X speed.

What games were you looking to play?

Also do you know your processor? Go back to CPU_Z under CPU.

I am running XP SP2

Im not sure how to check if I have 300W PSU

Intel Pentium 4 processor is what I have.

Games I'm looking forward to play is Guildwars, Counterstrike, WoW.

Unfortunately about the only way to verify the PSU is open the case and look.

One side of the unit will have a large label on it with all the specs.

P4 is good. I will try to look at those games tonight and get back to you.

Originally Posted by jephree

Unfortunately about the only way to verify the PSU is open the case and look.

One side of the unit will have a large label on it with all the specs.

P4 is good. I will try to look at those games tonight and get back to you.

I have confirmed that it is at least a 300W PSU.

I have always thought that stores should have an "old" PC so they can show the basics of what's inside.
I'm sure it would encourage learners to buy and fit extra cards and RAM.
ALL of us were at that stage, when the shop guy says PCI or AGP 50% of new guys will just leave it (I bought the wrong one and had to take it back)
If they'd let you fit an old stick of RAM or a pci card it would get more folk customising and upgrading. IMHO