Hi there,

I was hoping maybe someone could help me. I have an asrock P4VM800 Motherboard with a ATI Radeon 9250 graphics card. As you can see my setup is quite basic. But whilst I'm saving up for a new PC I want to get the best out of what I've got. Could someone tell me what would be the best supportable graphics card that I could use with this motherboard? I have searched for ages with no luck and my hardware knowledge is limited. I am looking at around £30 (approx $60). Maybe a few different options would be good. Thanks for looking, your help would be much appreciated!

Hi and welcome to D-A-L!

Well, the motherboard you're currently using is only equipped with the older graphics card interface, the AGP 8x socket. Because of this, the graphics card offered would be somewhat more expensive than their PCI-E counterparts and are usually not as powerful.

I've searched a little and the best I can find is the Geforce 6200 and/or the ATI 2600. Here are two links that you can take a look at.

http://images.lowyat.net/pricelist/allit.gif
Search Results for agp 8x at TigerDirect.ca

Thanks so much for your help. I've taken a look at them both and they're still quite reasonable and will stop me from pulling my hair out whilst I save up for something else! Lets hope one of them will work.

You're welcome!

The two that I recommended are the "top of the range" for AGP 8x graphics cards. You can of course find slightly cheaper ones, depending on what you'll be using the graphics card for.

Photo editing mostly so best really.

I bought the geforce one today. It will arrive in a week so fingers crossed!

Weee! Keep us updated! =D