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im upgrading from a radeon 9600 to a geforce PNY 6600 GT 128mb

my current system is
amd athlon 2400+
512 ddr ram
radeon 9600

would this be a good upgrade also my agp is 4x but the site im buying the card from says this is a 8x card is it possible to run anyway if so will there be a significant diffrence?

ithe site also says that it requires 350 watt power supply if i buy a 400 watt will that be enough alos what kind would i need i have a emachine the motherboard is atx not sure whats the name does anyone know a good site to get a really cheap power supply

Noo, dont get a 128mb card!! I don’t think it would be worth upgrading unless you plan to upgrade again in the near future. If you are upgrading I would say it’s at least worth getting a 256 card. And x8 will be better i think. Just means the data can travel faster through the computer I think.

How ever, I will leave it for someone with better hardware knowledge than my self to help you further.

Venney

Venney is right all around. If your wanting to upgrade and actually see the difference, go with a 256 meg. Also, an 8X card will run on a 4X mobo but it will be slightly slower than its full potential. The benefit to upgrading however is that the card your looking at should have a faster video memory clock and graphic support (better pixel\vertex shading). You will see the difference in the two cards.

What size power supply do you have now? There should be a label on the side of it. 400 would be nice though, i would start looking through .

thnxfor the help well my current cards clock speed is 400 and 400 or atleast near those 2 numbers and the new one im l;ooking at is 500 and 1000 not sure what theses numbers mean o and power suppl i have a 250 watt atx