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Fuyursuki
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Posted - 2006.05.01 22:39:00 -
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Evening people,
I've had my nvidia geforce FX5200 for a bit now, and frankly i'm tired of it not running the games I play these days. I was thinking about going the whole way and replacing my motherboard so I could get one with an AGP slot (its annoying how my dads 64meg AGP card can run eve smoother than my 256 pci one
So anyway before I buy this motherboard just wondered if anyone knew of a pci card that would save me all that trouble? rather annoying considering it isn't even the pci express variety!
Many thanks, 'Suki
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Jenny Spitfire
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Posted - 2006.05.01 22:40:00 -
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What is your machine specs, Pentium 3? ---------------- May 1st - We love Khatred day. RecruitMe@NOINT! |
Raven Aure
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Posted - 2006.05.01 22:59:00 -
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To be honest with you, you're not going to notice much of a performance gain by staying on the PCI bus.
Skip AGP and go straight to the newer PCI-Express interface which has pretty much become the standard these days. ______________________
Originally by: ParMizaN i think ive done it a couple of times and nearly done it a lot.
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Xrak
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Posted - 2006.05.02 01:02:00 -
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Edited by: Xrak on 02/05/2006 01:03:02 Welcome to the year 2000.
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Mia Archer
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Posted - 2006.05.02 02:54:00 -
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my secondary and tertiary cards are both PCI versions of the fx5200, and ive had no troubles running 2 eve clients from each in the past.
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pix0r
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Posted - 2006.05.02 10:38:00 -
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Originally by: Raven Aure
Skip AGP and go straight to the newer PCI-Express interface which has pretty much become the standard these days.
agreed, go straight to PCI-Express if u can mate, any pci-e video card will be better than your actual pci and in average better than any agp.. F.C.Barcelona - Arsenal, WANNA BET !? (1m/score)
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Fuyursuki
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Posted - 2006.05.02 11:45:00 -
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Stupid thing is the pc is actually relativly modern, I only bought it about a year ago.
Its got a 2.8 intel processor with a gig of ram, its only the motherboard with its outdated slots which seem to be the problem. No idea why it came with this, pity I didn't notice it at the time
Anyway thanks for the input, i'll have a look around for the new pci-e boards
'Suki
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FireFoxx80
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Posted - 2006.05.02 11:52:00 -
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Agreed. You can go down the route that I did (Sapphire do a nice 1600Pro AGP 512Mb). I tihnk the highest spec you'd get PCI-wise is a 9200, which from experience is a bare minimum.
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Raven Aure
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Posted - 2006.05.02 12:10:00 -
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Originally by: Fuyursuki Stupid thing is the pc is actually relativly modern, I only bought it about a year ago.
Its got a 2.8 intel processor with a gig of ram, its only the motherboard with its outdated slots which seem to be the problem. No idea why it came with this, pity I didn't notice it at the time
Anyway thanks for the input, i'll have a look around for the new pci-e boards
'Suki
Are you absolutely sure that it doesn't have an AGP slot? ______________________
Originally by: ParMizaN i think ive done it a couple of times and nearly done it a lot.
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Astrum Ludus
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Posted - 2006.05.02 12:58:00 -
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Originally by: Fuyursuki Stupid thing is the pc is actually relativly modern, I only bought it about a year ago.
Its got a 2.8 intel processor with a gig of ram, its only the motherboard with its outdated slots which seem to be the problem. No idea why it came with this, pity I didn't notice it at the time
Anyway thanks for the input, i'll have a look around for the new pci-e boards
'Suki
What is it on board graphics or something?
Musta have been seriously budget to be a year old and no AGP
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Fuyursuki
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Posted - 2006.05.02 13:02:00 -
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Edited by: Fuyursuki on 02/05/2006 13:03:06 Yep i'm certain. It's got 2 pci slots, a sound card slot and thats it. Pc is near enough the same as my dads, and it was one of those pc-world packages for about 600 quid so I wasn't best pleased when I found out
It did have an onboard chip but I installed the graphics card to over-ride that.
'Suki
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Astrum Ludus
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Posted - 2006.05.02 13:16:00 -
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Originally by: Fuyursuki Edited by: Fuyursuki on 02/05/2006 13:03:06 Yep i'm certain. It's got 2 pci slots, a sound card slot and thats it. Pc is near enough the same as my dads, and it was one of those pc-world packages for about 600 quid so I wasn't best pleased when I found out
It did have an onboard chip but I installed the graphics card to over-ride that.
'Suki
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Sha'blach
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Posted - 2006.05.02 13:48:00 -
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I'd highly suggest a Geforce 7800 or 7900 - they are reasonably priced and VERY fast. They also handle EVE better than the new 1800/1900x ATI cards in my experiance. ------------ Atlantis Earth Studio Jovian Chronicles
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Lanfear's Bane
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Posted - 2006.05.02 13:50:00 -
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Originally by: Astrum Ludus PC World staff members have no soul.
Proof.
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Skian Mhor
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Posted - 2006.05.02 14:57:00 -
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PC World.
'nuff said.
My personal reccommendation? rip out that entire motherboard, and go for PCI-E. a half decent geforce 6600/6800 should last you a couple of years, until the DX10 compatible cards finally come out and we're all looking at upgrading to vista (either on release or once it's stable..), etc.
I don't know for pentium systems, but for AMD, the ASUS A8N-E boards are great for a budget system, and I'm pretty certain there's an intel version.
150 quid on a board and a half decent gfx card, 250 if you go for a new cpu at the same time, and the difference will be like night and day.
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Xrak
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Posted - 2006.05.02 19:40:00 -
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Originally by: Sha'blach I'd highly suggest a Geforce 7800 or 7900 - they are reasonably priced and VERY fast. They also handle EVE better than the new 1800/1900x ATI cards in my experiance.
RIIIIIIGGGGHTTTTT. They will handle eve the same, so stop with the fanboism.
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