I have a PC with - Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard (with Via chipset) Athlon 4000+ processor XFX Geforce 6800GT 1Gb Ram Since I can't get the 6800GT grfx card to work properly with this Mobo (supposedly known issue with chipset "sometimes") I'll need to buy another one. The Mobo only has AGP connector no PCIE which will severely limit my options nowadays ;+( I saw a Radeon HD2600Pro clearanced for $79.99 (reg $150) how would this grfx card be? The computer has a tuner card (unknown vendor) and is running Windows XP Media Center. Is this about the best I can hope to get nowadays? (as I'm leery of losing money on restocking fees on any more Nvidias) Is it at least comparable to the 6800GT? Will it handle tuner card ok (in otherwords for pvr and other multimedia uses?) Is the cost OK? As my other PC died again for the 2nd time in ~ 5 weeks (1st time Boot Drive died physically), 2nd time Windows XP corrupted so won't boot (on a new WD160 Gb HD) so I'm debating whether I should just give up on it and move over to this other PC I won 3 years ago (unfortunately, as is, found had grfx card issues I couldn't afford to fix then). The old PC has an FX5200 Cinema which probably wouldn't be worth putting in the newer PC nowadays (tho I don't play newest games, I'm more into retrogaming, however I would like to run a Future Pinball emulator which I suspect overtaxes this card (as I would think a 2.6GHz Mobo would be OK) Regards, manic49er
Well get the biggest 2600 you can find. I have one that is PCI-E. Here's the specs. After viewing this you may want to upgrade that mobo ang go with pci-e. You WILL notice a large difference! Field Value Graphics Processor Properties Video Adapter ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT (RV630) BIOS Version 010.052.000.000.025687 GPU Code Name RV630 PCI Device 1002-9588 / 1462-0981 Transistors 390 million Process Technology 65 nm Die Size 153 mm2 Bus Type PCI Express x16 @ x16 Memory Size 512 MB GPU Clock 844 MHz (original: 850 MHz) RAMDAC Clock 400 MHz Pixel Pipelines 4 TMU Per Pipeline 2 Unified Shaders 120 (v4.0) DirectX Hardware Support DirectX v10 Pixel Fillrate 3376 MPixel/s Texel Fillrate [ TRIAL VERSION ] Memory Bus Properties Bus Type GDDR4 Bus Width 128-bit Real Clock 1143 MHz (DDR) (original: 1150 MHz) Effective Clock 2286 MHz Bandwidth [ TRIAL VERSION ] Miscellaneous Fan Speed 30% Utilization 0% Graphics Processor Manufacturer Company Name Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Product Information ATI Radeon™ Desktop Graphics Driver Download Drivers & Software Driver Update DriverAgent.com Fix Your Driver Problems Instantly with DriverAgent
