Best PCI graphic card
Yomper
It has to support 3d and be a minimum of 32mb's.
I know its better to get a mobo with an agp slot but i need a quick cheaper
option at the mo so i am going to use a PCI card for now.
Cheers
Martin
Odie
I just sold a Gigabyte motherboard on here for £38. If you only have
PC100/133 memory, Elite's K7S5A board is available new for not a lot
more.
You should easily get an AGP graphics card for £40 or so.
Sorry to stick my oar in, but it does seem a pity to go buying things
like PCI graphics cards...
Odie
Yomper
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> I just sold a Gigabyte motherboard on here for £38. If you only have
> PC100/133 memory, Elite's K7S5A board is available new for not a lot
> more.
>
> You should easily get an AGP graphics card for £40 or so.
>
> Sorry to stick my oar in, but it does seem a pity to go buying things
> like PCI graphics cards...
>
> Odie
Its ok odie i like good advice but i really have no option but to use a Pci
card, i know its a waste of dosh but if i had any other choice i would
rather dump this crappy mobo and stick an abit or nvidia mobo or something
in.
Thanks anyway
Martin
idkaff25
If you absolutely must get a PCI card (and with the K7S5A at £40 odd at
tekheads.co.uk you have little reason to!) then you can get a Geforce 2mx
which I know had PCI variants. However, these are rare and you can expect
to pay a significant premium for them.
In the long run, it just isn't worth it. Keep the crappy mobo if £40 for a
brand new mobo is more than you can afford and save up!
Took me three months of patient waiting, but I had much the same dilemma,
and I can't say I regret skipping over a MX and buying a nice Geforce 2 GTS
AND mobo for £20 more than I was going to pay for just the PCI gfx card
alone :-)
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Yomper
> In the long run, it just isn't worth it. Keep the crappy mobo if £40 for a
> brand new mobo is more than you can afford and save up!
>
> Took me three months of patient waiting, but I had much the same dilemma,
> and I can't say I regret skipping over a MX and buying a nice Geforce 2
GTS
> AND mobo for £20 more than I was going to pay for just the PCI gfx card
> alone :-)
>
>
Well the reason being why i can't use a new mobo is the Pc i am talking
about is one from sh*tty time i bought a year ago :o(
It has a preinstalled OEM version of WinME which i like BTW and if i install
a new mobo i will loose a lot of the warranty etc plus i only have a
recovery disk and with a new mobo i am not sure if it will work as a lot of
the stuff is on a hidden partition in my HD. I feel like sending it back and
taking a loss on what i have paid them already and tell them to stuff it,
but i am not sure of my rights with HP as i entered a HP agreement with
them and if i send it back i do not want a bad credit rating either.
I have seen the geforce2MX going for around £45 but i have been told its a
real crap card so i was hoping to get a geforce2MX400 or something better no
matter how slight it is. Now if you can install a Mobo and buy an agp
graphic card for less than £45 LMK as i will surely have it .
I want a PCI card i would just like a few sensible answers and not the one
which i already know and that is buy a Mobo with a AGP slot. Does anyone
have a url or know of a cheap alternative to a geforce2MX please.
Thanks
Martin
Chris
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> Does anyone
> have a url or know of a cheap alternative to a geforce2MX please.
> Thanks
> Martin
There seem to be a lot of people in your situation, I'm doing a bit of
research for 2 friends of mine who have the same problem ;-p
I have no experience of the following people:
http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/productsDisplay.asp?keywords=PCI+Video+Cards
...but they seem to be selling a Geforce 4 pci card!
It's probably a bit over budget (I think the prices are net of VAT), but
they have a selection of other pci cards.
Please let me know how you get on.
Regards,
Chris.
Michael Rodgers
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> ...but they seem to be selling a Geforce 4 pci card!
Yup, both the MX420 and the MX440 are available as PCI cards. I wouldnt
usually recommend the MX440's, being that its basically a souped up
GeForce2, but for PCI it cannot be beaten - there is no faster PCI graphics
card.
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Yomper
>
> Don't want to get into the "what's best" debate, but it depends on
> what you mean by 3D - gaming or CAD graphics?
>
> I'm not into gaming at all so can't advise on that aspect. I have
> successfully used a PCI based 32Mb GeForce 2 MX400 (Elsa, now defunct)
> for high resolution 2D and run of the mill 3D CAD applications. No
> real subjective difference between PCI and AGP for those apps. It's
> only when doing higher power gaming or CAD that the differences should
> become real. Don't be put off by people trashing PCI, unless you are
> after top end performance.
>
> Looking on www.pcindex.co.uk throws up a few cards from ATI, Creative
> and others. Also one occasionally sees stuff on the surplus market at
> times. Try these places as I have previously seen PCI based cards
> ranging from ancient / useless, to relatively recent.
>
> www.autdirect.co.uk/acatalog/PCI_Video_Cards.html
>
> www.6thplanet.com
>
Cheerz m8 but its not cad i use it for its really for 3d gaming and alot of
2d gaming i know Pci graphic cards are slow itsjust while i am at home its
better than nothing.
Thanks anyway
Martin
Yomper
I will have to get one of them then :o) i wanted one quite urently but i
think i will wait a week ot 3 untill i get a few more reddies :o)
Cheers
Martin
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