Hi everyone,
I have an older gaming tower which I had custom-built back in November 2006 which has an Asus P5B-E motherboard, Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU, 2GB RAM and Windows XP SP3 (32-bit of course). I no longer connect this computer to the Internet and it serves mainly as my retro gaming box at this point. I upgraded it from a 7950GT to a 9600GT in the spring of 2008 and plan to keep this tower running for an indefinite period of time. Just in case the video card ever decides to die one day, I wanted to buy a replacement card before this tower gets too old and standards change (and keep the 9600GT as a back-up) and was wondering if I might experience any compatibility issues with my Asus P5B-E if I decided to go out and buy a 1GB GTX550 Ti card? I want something that performs at least as good as my 9600GT and I know the 550Ti would outperform it. I also wonder if compatibility with older games would be an issue too?
Thanks for any info and insight.