A good PCI card

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elvenom
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Hey I really need to know a good PCI video card around the price range of $40-150 for this computer. I would GREATLY appreciated it. Thanks. :)

Computer: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu ... 41471#N759


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cp
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what's wrong with the onboard vga? what do you need the pci card for? office? games? video?
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elvenom
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Sorry, I need a good PCI gaming card, my graphics card that I have now is integrated so its pretty much crap.
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recent gpus only support PCIe. even AGP (-interface) support is dropped. and plain PCI support has been killed quite a while ago.
buy a new mainboard and get a shiny PCIe card. or buy a gaming console :)
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Seazn
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Not sure about good PCI graphics cards but one that caught my attention was the PNY Geforce 8400GS for many reasons:

It's on Play so easy and trustable to buy
PNY is one of the better companies that make GFX Cards.
It's £40 which isn't a lot.
Though memory doesn't always matter, 512MB is pretty high, obviously performance is lower because it's not a PCIe card.


Either way, I'm just buying this to be able to play sub-par games with decent looks and framerates. I have a PS3 for a reason :wink:
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It's really hard to get a good pci card for video... Maybe the best solution for you is to change your motherboard for a new one that can handle newer video cards without any chip integrated
johnmiller
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there are little pci video card, most of card is pci-e connector
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814187057

I ran this in an old dellr450 i had running with slocket adapter and a Tualtin 1.4 ghz cpu it ran world of warcraft around 25-30 fps so it helps out a lot since the PC was so old it was way overkill for that system but it is a good pci card for older systems.
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