Originally Posted By: bornconfuzd
Originally Posted By: 901Memphis
Originally Posted By: Vern_in_IL
the CPU runs at 95% with window open, and youtube playing(in Chrome) with some studders, but if I minimize, then the processor is going down to 40% and the audio is great.
I tried to change my aperture AGP settings in BIOS. Changed the card settings in program for "performance" nothing.
I should not need a power supply upgrade, it has a 500w Antec in it.
I agree that the problem is my CPU is doing all the GPU calculations.
Try looking on eBay for a used video card and you should be fine after updating to the newest drivers. You have many choices if you have a budget I can help you locate one.
On the contrary, I expect his choices are quite limited. He's using an AGP card, so unless he has a PCI slot, AGP is his choice because for sure he doesn't have a PCIe slot.
In addition, unless he can shift rendering from the cpu to the card, it won't matter what card he has.
Beyond that, I don't think I would put any money into upgrading anything in a machine that's not capable of even running a modern OS.
(Put Linux on it in 3.......2........),
Which really isn't that bad of an idea come to think of it, it would certainly be safer than XP and with more current software and drivers.
But then he'd lose the ability to run his favorite Windows XP software.
I'm well aware he has AGP as you can see in my previous post i was preparing while you posted this i referred the OP 3 very good AGP cards that should solve his current problem.
The new AGP card will automatically take over processing if he has the right drivers installed and flash software, the problem he currently he has is the 6200A is onboard graphics which are limited by the CPU power and as we all know socket A is long in the tooth, i used to have a nice XP 3200 rig on an Asus A7 board with a 6600GT and it was plenty fine for playing any DX9 game of the day, although i had 2x1 gb DDR-400 RAM in my rig.
Even if it's the dedicated PCI/AGP 6200 card its very lacking in pixel pipelines and core clock compared to the 6600GT and up, which a 6600GT should have 4 times the processing power of a single 6200A.