Tony W Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I know almost all of you are laughing at me but i'm looking for a PCI graphics card. Unfortunately, my crappy VAIO doesn't have a AGP slot and there is no way a 5 year old computer has a PCI-E slot. I'm a student so I really don't want to buy a new computer or replace the whole motherboard AND get a AGP graphics card which would cost way to much. Here are my specs: Windows xp SP2 AMD 1.56ghz (not exactly sure what model CPU, possibly athlon +1800) 768 mb ram Integrated 32mb graphics SIS 641(hence the reason i want a new graphics card) Integrated sound Any advice on which would be the best PCI graphics card? I attempted to search Google for top recent pci graphics card reviews but only PCIe reviews seem to pop up. I found one but it was back in 2003. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I would recommend some sort of older Nvidia GeForce, perhaps a 5200 or somewhere around there, since the newer ones are PCIE. Why Nvidia? Natit. Natit lets you get full graphics accel with no hassles. ATI PCI cards, as far as I know, will have tearing and such. Nvidia has no such problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwer Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I would recommend some sort of older Nvidia GeForce, perhaps a 5200 or somewhere around there, since the newer ones are PCIE. Why Nvidia? Natit. Natit lets you get full graphics accel with no hassles. ATI PCI cards, as far as I know, will have tearing and such. Nvidia has no such problems. I second that. Ebay is your friend there - plenty of PCI 5200's on there. I have one in my G3 B&W (a flashed PC one) and it works a treat. But its a moot point, isn't it? You aren't going to be able to run os x on that CPU anyway.... //R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac-mini Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 try a geforce 5500 its the latest PCI geforce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user2 Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I have a PNY PCI fx5200 it works with Titan straight out of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernovafan Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 I'm have a GeForce 7900 GS which is working with Natit. I haven't tried dual monitors since I only have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user2 Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 I'm have a GeForce 7900 GS which is working with Natit. I haven't tried dual monitors since I only have one. that is not a pci card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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