Your answer might render the last 3 days futile.

[LAnatraArrabbiata]

For the last 3 days, I've been going back and forth on the idea of building a new computer. Basically, all the upgrading I think I'd need to do to this one to get it to play Oblivion would be slightly less expensive than just building a new one altogether, which I've wanted to try for a while now. It was all a long chain of events where basically, one component that I wanted to replace wouldn't work w/ another, so I'd have to replace that one, which meant replacing yet another, so on and so forth. However, all this might be for naught if the answer to this question is "yes":

Will a PCI Express video card work in a PCI bus?

If so, that negates the first step in this chain, making the whole thing a moot point.

Also, if the answer is in the affirmative, would the performance of the card be significantly held back by the bus, or would it pretty much run the same?
Thanks for any help.

 

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: LAnatraArrabbiata
Will a PCI Express video card work in a PCI bus?

No.

 

[Extelleron]

No

 

[Zstream]

Originally posted by: LAnatraArrabbiata
For the last 3 days, I've been going back and forth on the idea of building a new computer. Basically, all the upgrading I think I'd need to do to this one to get it to play Oblivion would be slightly less expensive than just building a new one altogether, which I've wanted to try for a while now. It was all a long chain of events where basically, one component that I wanted to replace wouldn't work w/ another, so I'd have to replace that one, which meant replacing yet another, so on and so forth. However, all this might be for naught if the answer to this question is "yes":

Will a PCI Express video card work in a PCI bus?

If so, that negates the first step in this chain, making the whole thing a moot point.

Also, if the answer is in the affirmative, would the performance of the card be significantly held back by the bus, or would it pretty much run the same?
Thanks for any help.

As answered up above no! If you have a AGP card look at the PCIexpress and AGP mobo's like the asrockII or something similar.

 

[LAnatraArrabbiata]

Confound it all! Oh well, thanks for the super-fast replies.
Zstream, I have a pci card, but it looks like the only cards that'll run Oblivion are AGP and PCIe. I don't really get it, as I thought PCI was supposed to be better than AGP. I don't know. Maybe I'm just not as good at computering as I like to pretend.

 

[Munky]

PCi-express cards will not work in a PCI slot or an AGP slot. And the bus is not the limiting factor, but the problem is that new high end cards are only available for PCI-e. The fastest AGP card is either an x850xt pe or the 7800gs, and both of those qualify as midrange cards compared to the x1900xt and the 7900gtx.

 

[Zstream]

Originally posted by: LAnatraArrabbiata
Confound it all! Oh well, thanks for the super-fast replies.
Zstream, I have a pci card, but it looks like the only cards that'll run Oblivion are AGP and PCIe. I don't really get it, as I thought PCI was supposed to be better than AGP. I don't know. Maybe I'm just not as good at computering as I like to pretend.

You are correct the only cards that will run the game are midranged cards at best. With the prices of midranged video cards going down every day it is a good time to buy a motherboard/cpu/video card

I would recommend a 100-125$ video card such as a 6600GT/x800pro or GTO2
This will provide you with atleast 1280 * 1024 without all the eye candy. If you just want this game buy a 360 as it is cheaper then a pc

 

[LoathedSynapse]

Originally posted by: LAnatraArrabbiata
I don't really get it, as I thought PCI-express was supposed to be better than AGP.

Fixed.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: LAnatraArrabbiata
I don't really get it, as I thought PCI was supposed to be better than AGP.

PCI is WAY slower than AGP. At least AGP 4X/8X, which is what has been in use for the last five years or so.

 

[LAnatraArrabbiata]

Originally posted by: Matthias99



PCI is WAY slower than AGP. At least AGP 4X/8X, which is what has been in use for the last five years or so.

Aww. I got the functionally retarded smiley.
That clears a lot up, though. Thanks.