<edit> Need Help, what PCI video card should I buy?

[tinneric]

<edit> OK, lets try this; I am only a casual gamer, I have a pcchips board with a AMD 1.33 and 512megs of ram. I have a 17" flat screen with .25 dot pitch. I want a video card, yet have no AGP slot. My M.B. has onboard AGP graphics that is 4X and 8mb shared ram, what should I do, Please help!!!

 

[Prospector]

Haven't seen any PCI Geforce 2 cards. They are all AGP.

 

[tinneric]

Actually, I have seen a few, Creative Labs makes a couple.

Thanks

 

[Rand]

None of them.The GF2 series relies to heavily upon the advanced features of AGP.
If you absolutely must have PCI then I'd recommend a V5 because it loses virtually no performnace from AGP to PCI, besides that I would recommend a Radeon PCI over a GF2 in PCI.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Why do you need a PCI board? Anyone with an AGP slot is really better off with an AGP board. AGP boards are cheaper and there is a greater selection.

Oh well. I know that GeForce 2 MX boards come in PCI. The GTS boards are able to be PCI format, yet I am pretty sure that no company produces a PCI GTS board. The best deal I can find is a Creative 3D blaster GeForce 2 MX 400 PCI for $76 @ Shentech. PowerColor and Inno3D also make a PCI MX 400, but I can only find them for $90-130.

 

[Rand]

<< Why do you need a PCI board? Anyone with an AGP slot is really better off with an AGP board. AGP boards are cheaper and there is a greater selection.

Oh well. I know that GeForce 2 MX boards come in PCI. The GTS boards are able to be PCI format, yet I am pretty sure that no company produces a PCI GTS board. The best deal I can find is a Creative 3D blaster GeForce 2 MX 400 PCI for $76 @ Shentech. PowerColor and Inno3D also make a PCI MX 400, but I can only find them for $90-130. >>



Creative and some of the smaller "no name" manufacturers have PCI GTS boards.
Creative's board is only available in limited quantities and it OEM only so far as I'm aware though.

 

[sash1]

For the record, my brother has the Creative Labs Annihilator 2 (GTS 32Mb) and the 2D on that thing was awful and blurry. I'm guessing the same holds true for all Creative cards.

 

[Rand]

<< For the record, my brother has the Creative Labs Annihilator 2 (GTS 32Mb) and the 2D on that thing was awful and blurry. I'm guessing the same holds true for all Creative cards. >>



In my experience the 2D on most of Creative's GF2 cards is rather poor... so from what I've seen I'd agree with you.