Any Decent PCI (non-Express) still being made?

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Doug117

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I was looking around for a friends old HP computer that has no AGP slot, and is using onboard graphics. He cant play much on that system and was looking to pop a decent card in there for some light gaming. I see NVIDIA MX4400 and FX5200s are made in PCI, along with ATIs 7200. Any thoughts on what might be the better card? All of these can be had for less than $20 on eBay (which is what hes looking to spend). Thanks!
 
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Originally posted by: Doug117
I was looking around for a friends old HP computer that has no AGP slot, and is using onboard graphics. He cant play much on that system and was looking to pop a decent card in there for some light gaming. I see NVIDIA MX4400 and FX5200s are made in PCI, along with ATIs 7200. Any thoughts on what might be the better card? All of these can be had for less than $20 on eBay (which is what hes looking to spend). Thanks!
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Anything he tries to do is likely to be seriously restricted by the slow speed of the PCI bus, compared to the requirements of even the least graphic-intensive entertainment still available at retail. If he plans to shop on eBay for really old games, six years back, maybe, then he can get a Dx8 card of some sort, such as an FX5200-plain (sold by nVidia as Dx9, but severely restricted for Dx9 gaming features).

The MX-cards, all of them, are descendants of an old and slow chip that was part of the GF-2 line, and therefore is a Dx7 part. I would ignore that one completely. From ATI, my thinking is he should perhaps look at a Radeon 8500, but I am much less well acquainted with the old ATI GPU's than I've become about nVidia's products.


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