video card upgrade

[trooper1212]

I've got an Athlon 1800+ and a Geforce 4 4200 graphics card. Both are getting long in the teeth now and won't be able to handle half life 2 etc... in any great fashion.

Can I get away with upgrading the video card to a radeon 9800 pro and leaving the cpu as is, or do I need to upgrade both? My motherboard is pretty much maxed with the current CPU, so upgrading that would mean a fair amount of expense on top of the video card.

[Roadrage]

if you otherboards that old my gues is its only 4x agp

all new cards are 8x so new MB on the cards
i got a 9800 pro all in wonder i brort a few weeks back and It dose the job nicely



inserdently the 9800xt is only a smige faster than the 9800 pro so not worth extra cash


your cpu should handelHL 2 fine for now you could allways get a faster one later the prices are fairly cheap.

my advice nice kick ass mother board and a new grafix card for know

and if you aint got much memory another skick will help your frame rates.

[Mr E]

I'm looking hard at a NVdia FX5900XT

Good price/performance trade off.

[trooper1212]

Ended up with...

New motherboard with 8xAGP.
2800+ Athlon CPU.
120 gig SATA hard disk.
9800pro Radeon graphics card.

That should sort the little beastie out for a couple of months