Dell Part Number: 8G894 This Dell Dimension 8200 Pentium 4 Socket 478 motherboard features: 1 - AGP connector (4X/2X) 4 - PCI connectors 2 - USB connectors Socket 478 for Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.5GHz and up 4 - Memory slots (PC800 non-ECC RDRAM) 25-pin Parallel Port Connector 9-pin Serial Port Connector 2 - IDE Connectors I think this is the exact same mobo as I have. If that will help.

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Here is a link to my card I currently run. http://www.guru3d.com/review/titanium200/ It's the second one, GeForce3. Thanks

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Take a look at this for $87.00: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102338 In my opinion you probably wouldn't want to spend above $100 on a vid card if you plan to upgrade your whole system soon. The above is a link for a 9600XT which should free up some of the congested areas that you mentioned. It won't be perfect, but your gaming experience will probably be much better. home page was hijacked byhttp://magicsearch.try this, if you have any backupregistry data files,merge them in to current , or if you have several , i did. i merged about 5 or six. rebboot. it has been

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Sorry me dumb. Check this out instead for $99: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102362R I got my cards mixed up. That is for the 9800PRO. Please see benchmarks on the cards here: http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/07/05/vga_charts_vii/ home page was hijacked byhttp://magicsearch.try this, if you have any backupregistry data files,merge them in to current , or if you have several , i did. i merged about 5 or six. rebboot. it has been

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Thanks randy. Allow me to ask this, then... what will be the difference between running a 128mb card vs. 256mb card? And what do you think about these? http://www.pricescan.com/items/item164838.asp http://www.pricescan.com/items/item166876.asp Because I am willing to pay up to that amount, if it is feasable... thanks!

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If you're willing to spend that much then I would go with the 6600GT. That is where it is at in terms of cost to benefit ratio right now. I would also recommend adding another stick of RAM to bring you up to a gig. I wish I had an article to refer you to because I am not good at explaining the difference between 256/128. I can tell you this though, 128/6600gt will probably not be much less then a 256/6600gt. So go with more. home page was hijacked byhttp://magicsearch.try this, if you have any backupregistry data files,merge them in to current , or if you have several , i did. i merged about 5 or six. rebboot. it has been

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Only problem with ram, randy, is I am pretty sure that I have only 2 slots with 2x 256 rambus in them atm. I would expect it to cost me in the area of 350 dollars to upgrade to 2x 512, which would max me out on this mobo...something I have considered for a long time now, but have yet to force upon myself because of the money issue vs. building a new one.

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Right. I forgot you mentioned that above. Well 512 will certainly work. The only problem with that is many MMORPG are memory intensive, a lot of swapping goes on, so this may limit the overall performance of your video card (bottleneck). "There be no shelter here, the front line is everywhere"

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yikes! stop! you're motherboard can't support those video cards! those are 8x (and are not backwards compatible to 4x boards like yours. you will NOT be able to find any 4x AGP card with more than 128MB, they certainly haven't made any 4x cards for a few years now (although some 8x cards are backwards compatible to 4x). but to be honest, your motherboard's system speed is so slow that even if you get a fast video card, it will not be able to communicate with the rest of your system fast enough and you may even lag more. to sum it all up.. it's not your vid card that is holding you back, it's your entire system. If you do decide to purchase a new vid card, just go onto ebay and find a cheap card with higher specs than yours (but be sure it is 4x comptible) I just bought a 4x 64M asus AGP card for my spare computer, i bought it on ebay for 99 cents, 4x is very old technology now and u can get these cards for almost nothing, one with 128MB might go for $10. whatever you do, don't expect much out of any video card with the system you have now, you could upgrade your whole system for $300 (u dont have to buy a whole new comp)

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Okay, now I am confused. I thought AGP cards WERE backwards compatible.?? What gives?

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Yeah, I missed that. Sorry all. I agree with the dude's statement above, go ebay. I don't think it is a risk worth taking considering the amount of money involved (8x card). If you have a decent case a cheap upgrade may be in order since all you'll probably need to buy is mobo/memory/vid card/possible power supply. How about this if you don't want to do that? http://cgi.ebay.com/BFG-Asylum-128Mb-GeForce4-Ti4200-AGP-4x-Video-Card_W0QQitemZ8735035785QQcategoryZ40161QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem home page was hijacked byhttp://magicsearch.try this, if you have any backupregistry data files,merge them in to current , or if you have several , i did. i merged about 5 or six. rebboot. it has been

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Okay, am being told elsewhere, that an 8x/4x agp card WILL run in a 2x/4x agp slot, at 4x. So, a 6600GT with 4x/8x agp, will apparently work in my machine. Thanks for the input.

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sorry for the delayed reply, to answer your question, the 8x card may physically fit into the system, but it will not operate.

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