Need a PCI ATI card

[forg0tt3n]

Want to get an ATI card but i have no AGP ports only PCI can anyone suggest an ati card......I was hoping to get a 9800 pro but seems u can only get them for Pci-express or AGP.

 

[ailevation]

Damn. Why don't you instead of trying to buy a new PCI card, aim toward buying a new mobo? But anyways, the best PCI card you probably can get(terms of performance) is the Geforce FX 5600, yes there are PCI versions. I think the latest ATi PCI videocard is probably the 9200.

 

[Hazar]

I think a geforce card would be best for PCI. I don't think there's much higher cards for PCI.

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

Get a new motherboard instead of buying old GPU's.

 

[Gorgon]

Search here for your answer:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ATI_Graphics_Cards.html

 

[blahblahblah]

What are your system specs?

 

[forg0tt3n]

uhm specs damn the embarrising moment

3.6ghz dual cpu intel pentium 4,
256 Ram will be 1 gig in a week or so
120gb HD
SIS 651 onboard graphics (reason why im gettin a new vid card)
2 pci slots
no AGP slots


And i cant get a new mobo cos i have a pundit p4s8l mobo which is designed to fit my case perfectly no other mobos fit.

 

[Narcolepsy]

Now that is a really weird setup. 3.6 gHz but no AGP slot? WHA?

 

[h4vvok]

Uh...you can't have dual Pentium 4s....they only make dual Xeons and used to make dual PIIIs...

 

[m3ta1head]

woah, that blows. I say get a new case as well as a new mobo and vid card. might cost you a lot but, oh ****ing well.

 

[blahblahblah]

Now that is a really weird setup. 3.6 gHz but no AGP slot? WHA?

Dell

You have two options - a Nvidia FX 5200 PCI or a ATI Radeon 9250 (yes 9250). Both a pretty much equal perfomers. Regardless of what card you get, you want to get a card with a 128 bit memory bus. That is critical.

You may also find a Radeon 9200, stay away from that as it has horrible performance.

As a disclaimer, neither of those cards will game very well. Expect nothing better than 800 by 600 resolution with low details.

 

[MTL]

the main problem i have or what bugs me the most about the 9250 is that it only has 4 pixel pipes ;/...while the majority of AGP cards have 8 or more pipelines standard....
so that basically means you can NEVER get the maximum image quality even if you set it all on high, you will never get the most out of the game [particularly on bump mapping]
well it IS older technology...and not many people out there seem to want to help us budget gamers...

anyways.....
the card runs fine for me on all high [even cfg modified, and antialising & antisotropic to all high] and then some at 1152x, but of course thats possible by overclocking, and by modifying the CFG, and it can be run even smoother on all high if you get ATI TryTools and enable Anisotripic and Trilinear Filtering Optimization button for a barley noticable pinch in image quality
remember to set sound quality to low if u dont have a sound card installed

 

[giant384]

Dell

You have two options - a Nvidia FX 5200 PCI or a ATI Radeon 9250 (yes 9250). Both a pretty much equal perfomers. Regardless of what card you get, you want to get a card with a 128 bit memory bus. That is critical.

You may also find a Radeon 9200, stay away from that as it has horrible performance.

As a disclaimer, neither of those cards will game very well. Expect nothing better than 800 by 600 resolution with low details.

problem with that is there is no such thing as a 128bit pci gfx card only 64bit

 

[Daegon]

Where the heck did you find a prebuilt dual P4 pc? I've never heard of a workstation pc with a proprietary mobo.

 

[bryanf445]

problem with that is there is no such thing as a 128bit pci gfx card only 64bit

yes there is....for example http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-131-411&depa=1

 

[VirusType2]

You can get the PCI card and Do pretty well, but, you will want to upgrade it still... Don't You want the ultimate game play and graphics?

You will end up wanting to upgrade to a board with an AGP slot

Then you will have a useless PCI card

I don't understand why manufacturers are not adding an AGP slot, they didn't want to add another $10 In price, in the case of a 3.6 Ghz pentium they should get pimp slapped