Ancient PC needs a few upgrades but I'm broke.

[Lucid]

Alright, I have an ASRock K7S8X motherboard and I'm looking to replace the PSU I have since I'm sure it's much older than the mobo but I'm also looking to buy a new GPU that supports AGP and is under $70, I've got my eyes on this for the GPU at the moment and it's the primary reason I want a new PSU... I mean I don't even know the specs of the current PSU I just know it's old as hell.

I'm willing to spend $100 tops for the PSU and GPU together.

Would like a reply asap as my current GPU is dead and I'm running the comp off of the horribad(probably nonexistent) onboard card.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Check newegg?

 

[Lucid]

Thank you so much for your assistance, my problems have suddenly all vanished.

 

[Krynn72]

Not really much advice to give here. You're looking at bargin bin components at that price range. I'd say just buy the newest $60 GPU you can find and then buy a psu with what money remains. That card looks decent, so see if you can find a good PSU. Corsair might make one for around $40.

 

[Lucid]

Yeah, I'm just unsure about actually finding a PSU that's compatible with the mobo... or is that a non-issue?

 

[BakonGuy]

That's never been an issue for me, and I build computers a lot for friends.

Here's a cheap PSU I've bought myself, if you want to look: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182075

It's cheap and I've never had one die.

 

[Dinnesch]

A little warning about buying AGP graphics cards. You're probably on an Pentium 4/Athlon XP era processor, and speaking from my own experience a 3650 AGP is badly bottlenecked by that. I had a X1650 AGP(performance comparable to 3650) in my old PC and most games that would work fine on a PCIe variation of the same card ran at not nearly 1/4 speed on the AGP version because of the old CPU i was on...

To be honest I would just get a cheap second hand card and save up for a new PC if you can, rather than spend $100 on trying to play games on a coal-powered machine.

 

[Lucid]

I just can't see myself being able to accumulate enough cash to completely upgrade in the near future so I'm totally willing to dish out $100 right now to last me a couple more years.

 

[Dinnesch]

I just can't see myself being able to accumulate enough cash to completely upgrade in the near future so I'm totally willing to dish out $100 right now to last me a couple more years.

That sucks, but I just wanted to point out spending $100 on a newer PSU+video isn't going to give you more gaming possibilities than a cheap 2nd hand lower-end card(that doesn't need a beefy PSU) for $25 because you're on a ****ing Athlon XP at best. I'm speaking from my own experience here, on my previous PC which had an Athlon XP I upgraded from a Geforce 5900 to a X1650 because I was tempted by benchmarks of the X1650, but because it was bottlenecked by my CPU it was hardly any better.

 

[Vegeta897]

I just can't see myself being able to accumulate enough cash to completely upgrade in the near future so I'm totally willing to dish out $100 right now to last me a couple more years.

No AGP card is giong to last you a couple more years. They've already been extinct for a while. I bought the 3650 like several years ago and it was struggling to keep up even then.

Unless you mean a couple more years of playing the exact same games you're playing now.

 

[Lucid]

I've been content with doing that and will continue to be.

Can't miss what you don't have really.