Hey,
I'm looking for a fairly good gameing graphics card. I have a budget of about 120$ or less. Right now im useing a radeon 7000 and it is so slow when it come to like America's Army. I've been on to like cnet and stuff and it really didn't help me out. I want to get some opinions from people. Anybody??

The Radeon 7000, as far as I can see, are all AGP 2x4x. This is a problem. While you could spend money to upgrade, none of your options would give you a better gaming experience. This is because AGP 2x4x is too old. PCI x16 is the newest and best. AGP 4x8x, is after that, and then there is yours. So, your system is going to be too old to successfully upgrade. They system specs for American Army require at least a 64mb dx 9.0 graphics card. All of the ones that would fit your pc are dx7 cards. This would be the highest upgrading option for you according to newegg.com :Radeon 7000 64MB DDR AGP 2X/4X (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814142022). Is this what you already have? As you can see, you have limited options. Would a complete system upgrade be in your future?

No no, don't be too hasty. First of all, I'm sure AA requires a DX9 compatible vid card, not a DX9 compliant vid card. Big difference! Compatible means it has drivers that support the DX9 software from M$. Compliant means the GPU/VPU is actually capable of all of DX9's shader instructions.

You have a few options for upgrading here. If your current Radeon 7000 is an AGP card, and your mobo can only handle up to AGP 4x, then you could get something like this Radeon 9250 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814129045) for a big boost! If your current Radeon 7000 is a PCI card, you can get something like this GeForce FX 5500 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143032) also for a big boost!

Either way, these vid cards will blow that 7000 out of the water! Let us know some more info about your hardware and we may even be able to get you a better vid card! AGP 8x support would be nice...

AMD athlon 2200+ 1.79 GHz
512mb SD-ram
120GB hardrive
I dont know my power supply. I was looking into video cards and from what I made out on different websites, I guess you need like a certain amount of wattage for some video cards.
I have a Samsung Sync Master 151v monitor
I currently have the Radeon 7000 64MB DDR AGP 2X/4X

What other specs do you need? Oh...and by the way, I did buy a graphics card about 4 months ago. It was a 256mb ATI Radeon 9600 xt...it didn't seem to work so I sent it back. I was getting choppy gaming (on like Age of Empires II) and random crashes.

What other specs do you need?
The motherboard make and model. This will determine the best video card your system can handle.

nVIDIA nForce 220
I think this model is my motherboardchipset

OMG! :eek: You have an NForce 1 mobo? Wow!

Ok, anyway, yes, you're limited to AGP 4x/2x. That would be why that Radeon 9600 XT didn't work, because it's an AGP 3.0 vid card. Yeah I know, the numbers get confusing. :rolleyes: That AGP Radeon 9250 I linked to before will work with your mobo. And it will give your games a nice boost! :D

So any graphics card with an agp of up to 4x I can get?

Yeah. In post #3, I gave a link to an AGP 4x/2x Radeon 9250. That one will work with your mobo.

Did you want a different one?

Yeah the 9250 will be fine....but if I were to get an Nvidia with an agp of 4x what would be good for me...the one you gave me or something else?

NVidia AGP 4x? Hmmm...

If you can still find a GF4 Ti series vid card for a good price, that would work. Or a 4x version of a GF FX 5900. Although I'm not sure where you would get such vid cards anymore. Maybe on EBay?