3 vid cards for dell, which is best?

[splintitan]

looking at 3 vid cards and i dont know which i get. its for an older dell pc dimension 2300 so its just pci currently with a geforce mx 440:

geforce mx 4000 (pci 128mb)
e-geforce fx 5200 (AGP 128mb?)
e-geforce 6200 LE (256mb PCI -E... is it backwards compatable?)

im assuming the 6200LE is the one to go with but i cant be sure.

 

[Syntax Error]

You mention three cards with three different graphics buses. Your motherboard will probably have PCI slots, but do you have an AGP or a PCI-e slot?

PCI-e is not compatible with any other the other slots, so don't count on it fitting in any normal PCI or AGP slot.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

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Edited for less power hungry card.

 

[splintitan]

so out of those i can use only the geforce mx 4000?

 

[Syntax Error]

Well, if Dell is as lame as ever (I had a Dell desktop that skimped on even an AGP slot), then you're probably stuck with PCI.

Better to just upgrade to a whole new computer than to keep the current one living and continually upgrading to unsatisfying upgrades time and time again.

 

[splintitan]

its for my little brother. the card is free after rebate so no worries. yea i cant believe i only have 3 pci slots... seems like i can add something but im not getting into that.

if we were to rank the cards how would it go?

 

[Munky]

it would go like this:

decent midrange card
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6200le
fx5200
mx4000

 

[splintitan]

ha, thanks. at least its better than the geforce mx 440.

 

[Syntax Error]

The Geforce "4" MX series was an absolute joke; Nvidia totally whored the good name of the "good" 4 series, the Geforce 4 TI cards. Of course, normal people didn't think the same and didn't know that when you bought a Geforce 4 MX, you got a card not that much better than a Geforce 2, and Nvidia stockholders laughed their way to the bank.

 

[splintitan]

... the mx440 does say in hardware manage its agp8x

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: splintitan
... the mx440 does say in hardware manage its agp8x

Something isn't right then.

According to Dell the system has "Intel integrated AGP graphics*", and we all know that can't be the Nvidia MX440. At the same time, there is no AGP slot available in the system: "PCI connectors - four".

 

[taltamir]

I think what happens is, depending on which card you choose they provide a different motherboard...

But don't quote me on this.

 

[splintitan]

i know its not AGP cause i tried one and it didnt fit. what does suck is that it only have 3 pci slots which limits things.

i did get a crucial 1gb 240 pin ddr2 which fit but wouldnt clamp in the slot. thought it would work. dell, sony and similar companies can be a pain. goo thing dell's pc have changed since.

 

[Syntax Error]

Dells on MX440s have DDR2 RAM? I'm surprised, unless you tried to ram in a 240-pin RAM module into a 184-pin slot.

 

[hans007]

the mx4000 is an mx440 with 128mb of ram.

if you only have pci slots (and thats all the 2300 has btw... my cousin has one) and if it already has a pci mx440 in there you are scrwed. there are a few 6200 PCI geforce's out there (not pci express), but honestly for asystem that old you shoudl just save the money for a new system

 

[splintitan]

(the ddr2 was regards to the memory slots.) this is just a free upgrade in cards. nothing spectacular.
"if it already has a pci mx440 in there you are scrwed." hows that?
i already put in the mx4000 and its just fine.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: splintitan
(the ddr2 was regards to the memory slots.) this is just a free upgrade in cards. nothing spectacular.
"if it already has a pci mx440 in there you are scrwed." hows that?
i already put in the mx4000 and its just fine.

i guess i meant, that you werent gonna be able to do much better than an mx440.