Advice please - GPU

[Skaggy]

I'm looking for a new graphics card that'll let me play BF2 & CS:S on high at reasonable framerates and perhaps allow me to play CoD4 on low. And it has to be AGP

Current specs:

• Intel P4 with HT @ 3.2 GHz
• 2GB 3200 RAM
• ATi 9600 XT with 128 MB vRAM
• Windows XP Home

Cards I've looked at include:

7600 GT - £65
x1650 Pro - £55
2600 XT - £65

I'm reluctant to go for the x1950 Pro, partly because of the price, and partly because it would almost certainly require a new PSU.

[Oli]

X1650 Pro saw me through good times

X1950 XT is the best mid range GFX card out atm though

[Skaggy]

X1650 Pro saw me through good times

I'm sure it'll be fine for BF2 and CS:S, but I want to know if and how it runs CoD...

[Sniper1432]

I used to have an X1650 pro 512mb, ran BF2 low-medium at 40 fps go for the 7600 GT, it should run BF2 and CSS at high and COD4 mediumish.

[Basil.]

I'm sure it'll be fine for BF2 and CS:S, but I want to know if and how it runs CoD...

i have a 1650 pro agp it will play cod i don't remember what setting i had it on but it ran fine for the demo.

my spec-amd64 3200+ - 1 gig of memory - 1650 pro agp

My wife want to try the demo for cod4. over the weekend i will check and benchmark with fraps

[Eagle101]

X1950XT is lovely or from ur list i would go with the 2600XT 512MB if there is any.

[Skaggy]

Any more opinions?

The 1950XT is most certainly the best card to buy for AGP, but they're expensive, they're power thirsty, they will get bottlenecked by the rest of my system, notably my CPU, and what's more they're hard to get hold of...

[Scinto]

2600XT would be your best bet out of the 3

[Eagle101]

i'd agree with Scinto go for the 2600XT! take the 512MB ver. though i would go for that.

[signa]

did you check the agp list over at tomshardware.com?