Graphics card

[acona]

can anyone please recommend a reasonable graphics card to use with an Abit KW7 motherboard. I have been given the game Medal of Honour Pacific Assault but it will not load with on board graphics of the KW7. I am not looking for anything flash as I cannot afford a top end card, but wnt something that is reasonable but not too expensive that will allow me to play some games.

Acona

[Craig Simms]

The KW7 is a very old board with an AGP graphics slot, whereas the rest of the world moved to PCI-E quite a few years back. Thankfully Medal of Honour: Pacific Assault is quite old too, having been released in 2004.

I'd say the Radeon HD4650 would be your best bang for your buck, it'll let you try a few more taxing games too -- after that it's most likely upgrade time for the whole PC.

[acona]

Thanks Craig. I know the KW7 is pretty ancient but it has 1 AGP 8X/4X slot and 5 PCI slots so I might go for a bit more up-market PCI card

Bill

[Craig Simms]

PCI is older than AGP and won't be as fast. The current PCI-E video cards available won't fit in your board either -- reasonably sure the HD 4650 is the fastest card for your hardware!

[acona]

Thanks Craig. Will go with that.

Bill

[Craig Simms]

Tom's Hardware has just put up an in depth review which shows up the previous generation 3850 as being a slightly better performer due to its wider memory bus and DDR3, although only by a tiny margin until it hits high detail Fallout 3. Everything else seems limited by their Athlon X2 3800+. A more grunty CPU may change things around though...