Best pci card for AOE3

[Hellotalkie]

My bro has a compaq celeron 2.6 and 512mb ram. He doesnt have a agp slot and really doesnt want to put a lot of money in so i wanted to know what video card would be able to run AOE3 (age of empire 3) at decent settings or low settings would good fps.

 

[Matthias99]

Best cards you can get in PCI (this is asked fairly frequently; please search for more details):

RADEON 8500/9100 (NOTE: the 9000/9200 are MUCH slower than the 8500/9100). These cards are out of production and VERY hard to find.

GeForce 5700(LE).

GeForce 6200.

None of them will be "good" by modern GPU standards. They're not going to run AOE3 with all the graphics details cranked up, that's for sure.

 

[Avalon]

A PCI Geforce 6200 is your best bet, but it's going to be severely crippled by the PCI interface. You're looking at medium detail and low res.

 

[Hellotalkie]

what about ati9250

 

[mwmorph]

horrible card. slower than a 9200, more liek a 9200se and that's bad since a 9200 si basicalyl a crippled 8500le which is a crippled 8500 which was no perfromance king in it's time(a few years ago). a 6200 pci si a good bet, but impossible to find. i'd say the 5700le is your best bet.

 

[Hellotalkie]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814139166R

Is this anygood and is the 64bit memory bad?

 

[inveterate]

DUDE just get a new mobo with AGP for like 30 bux,,, and a 6600gt agp for 120 bux,,,

Much better idea, and it will run aoe fo sur

 

[JBT]

ugg I would hate to play AoE III with a PCI card...

 

[MiranoPoncho]

Really now? Cringe at the fact that I played doom 3 on a pci geforce 4mx 420 sdr on pci with a 1ghz celeron with 256 mb ram and a 300w psu.. muahahah
Of course it was more like fpm than fps...

 

[gac009]

Originally posted by: inveterate
DUDE just get a new mobo with AGP for like 30 bux,,, and a 6600gt agp for 120 bux,,,

Much better idea, and it will run aoe fo sur

I agree, new mbs for agp slots can be pretty cheap.

 

[Matt2]

I doubt a new mobo would even fit in that compaq case. I bet the ATX connector on the PSU wouldnt even plug into a normal AGP mobo.

 

[supastar1568]

just bought the full version saturday. Its pretty fun except I get owned when playing online.

Gonna start the single player campaign when I get home from work today

 

[inveterate]

Micro ATX case,, and the connector will definitly fit,, and you won't need a power supply,, Make sure u have a 12 volt line though cuz i know some really old psus don't have it.. it's the 4 pin SQUARE one.