Buy the Sparkle Geforce 9500 GT PCI:
512 MB
Newegg.com - SPARKLE SP95GT512D2L-HP GeForce 9500 GT 512MB 128-bit DDR2 PCI HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
1 GB:
Newegg.com - SPARKLE SP95GT1024D2LHP GeForce 9500 GT 1GB 128-bit DDR2 PCI HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
P.S: I have a Dell dimension 3000 too with a 9500 GT (Sightly overclocked)
Sk821,
Apparently you missed it when the original poster said that he wanted to spent no more than $40 on the upgrade. The cards you listed are both 2x that price.
First u should get a new mobo then a Videocard with PCI Express(16x) i think u got AGP?
I agree get a newer motherboard that has PCI-E or at least a AGP slot. I would lean towards the PCI-E.
Look on eBay for a motherboard combo my brother bought one for around 65 bucks shipped was better then the eMachine he had ! It came with the cpu and fan and 1Gb of memory. Not the latest or fastest motherboard but at he least he has options to install a different CPU, install a Pci-E video card and more ram down the road......... when he can afford it.
Did you not read the posts earlier in this thread. i worked quite a bit with this user and that Dell model doesn't even have AGP...it's just PCI.
Sure, however the user was under a very tight budget. A new mobo likely means a new processor, new RAM, in this case a new video card, perhaps a new power supply.....so this is likely far more than the person wanted to spend.
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