Originally posted by: K121 Widowmaker
I was thinking it would work good, because Elder Scrolls made a list of Cards, and categorized them. The X1300 made it into the "mid-range" category.
If you refer to the list currently hosted by NotTheKing, it is an unsupported range of personal opinions, and only the X1300 "
XT" qualifies as anything other than an office presentations special. Should NTK disagree, he's nuts.
Be that as it may, plain PCI is a shared 133 GHz bus. One speed. No accelleration. A real X1300 XT (renamed X1600 Pro) is an 8X AGP or 16X PCI-e. Either way, it is a DEDICATED bus. No sharing. Full speed at all times. No bogging when the music is intense. Of all of the Low Quality cards, the newer ones, like the X1300 Pro, and the 7300 GT, are closer to the border zone between Low Quality and Medium, but not when tied to plain PCI.
There is no Crossfire nor any SLI without paired PCI-e(8x) slots. Doubling up on plain PCI accomplishes nothing in improving graphical speed, and given the slow bus, probably means everything is slower still.
There is no PC that was made without a true dedicated video bus that is worth putting even one dime of money into for an upgrade. If it won't do what you want it to, you're supposed to just get another. And next time, pay attention. That junker Dell was never meant to be upgraded. It is disposable, and goes out with the rest of the garbage. Or save it for word processing only when you get a real PC.
Incidentally, here is Brash's thread on assembling a $353.46 PC that will run Oblivion:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/inde...353309&pid=6885029&st=40&#entry6885029
). I upgraded it quite a bit, more ram, bigger HD. But my motherboard has only PCI slots. I found out the best PCI card on the market is the Visiontek Radeon X1300. 
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