Date: 09/06/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

My computer reminds me of this book, even though I've never read it:

Flight of the Old Dog
http://www.iblist.com/book2097.htm

Self-explanatory.

My old P4 has an old AGP 4x motherboard with an upgraded power supply that could take a newer graphics card. I wonder what is the best card I could get without going overboard. I was thinking about a Geforce 6600, but I thought maybe that'd be a waste with just a 4x AGP.

What I'm thinking is getting a graphics card that maxes out the bandwidth of the 4x AGP slot, but at the same time not going so much beyond it that it'd be a waste.

Perhaps I'm thinking about it in the wrong way. Maybe the GPU processing power helps even if the 4x bus is limiting the bandwidth.

I wish there's an application out there called "Old Dog Advisor". You know, one that tells you almost exactly how far up you can upgrade your Old Dog (like giving you a list of components) before you start wasting money on too high of an upgrade?

Any advice?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/975655.html