UPGRADING help

[ranger29860]

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

[venney]

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

[liljim]

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 .

[ranger29860]

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