Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA. Looking for a compatable graphics card

[parnellsimon]

Bought the above board. It has 2x 1GB DDRII800 memeory sticks and a 2GHz Sempron processor.

I need a graphics card but would like to ask if anyone has advice on a resonable card for it. I previously had a GeForce7600GS and had months of compatibiity problems with it. Would like to avoid that this time.

Any thoughts?

[PeterStoba]

How much is your budget?

[parnellsimon]

I am looking at around £50 if that would give me a card close to the Geforce7600GS which I had previously.

If that would only buy an inferior card then I would make the jump to £100.

The difference being how many weeks I would have to save for. £50 I could get this week.

£100 means a wait of a month or more. :)

[parnellsimon]

Would like 256MB+ card with pixel shader 3.0 or higher I guess. I should mention I have the AGPx8 slot on the board.

[PeterStoba]

AGP has limited cards, best is either what you have or an X1950 Pro 512mb for £102

[parnellsimon]

Thanks. RE: X1950 Would the DDR3 memory mean I would need to ditch my DDRII chips?

[PeterStoba]

Nope

[parnellsimon]

ah good that saves me a few quid.

I'll go check out that X1950 I think.

Appreciate the responses.