The original poster only has a regular old PCI slot (ancient motherboard) and does NOT have an AGP slot. You cannot buy a 5700 in PCI-e so he is simply getting PCI and PCI-e confused. Common occurence these days. I don't know WHY on earth they chose that gawdaweful name...
PCI-e > AGP > PCI
newest------>ancient
I'm also guessing that he's probably young and does not have all of the technical savvy or the MONEY that some of us might have. Soooo...he's trying to get a slight performance increase while at the same time allowing both him and his brother to have their own computer to play games on instead of sharing one.
Sure...there are TONS better cards out there...but NOT for ancient old PCI!!! If he had the money to buy a whole new AGP or PCI-e based system, he would have said so
The original poster only has a regular old PCI slot (ancient motherboard) and does NOT have an AGP slot. You cannot buy a 5700 in PCI-e so he is simply getting PCI and PCI-e confused. Common occurence these days. I don't know WHY on earth they chose that gawdaweful name...
PCI-e > AGP > PCI
newest------>ancient
I'm also guessing that he's probably young and does not have all of the technical savvy or the MONEY that some of us might have. Soooo...he's trying to get a slight performance increase while at the same time allowing both him and his brother to have their own computer to play games on instead of sharing one.
Sure...there are TONS better cards out there...but NOT for ancient old PCI!!! If he had the money to buy a whole new AGP or PCI-e based system, he would have said so
I think things will work out fine
yea, i'm broke now lol. I only get 10 bucks for mowing lawns, so i do my dad's/mom's and neighbors... that's like 30 bucks for 2 weeks, not much but atleast i'm doing somthing.
How do i check if i have a pci-e slot though? when i go to display propeties > settings should it say Express?
Look if your going to post screen shots showing the image quality you also need to show the framerate. A 5200 can run the game at 1600x1200 with 4xaa and 6xAA but it will do it at 1 fps (frame per second). However from the screenshot we will have no idea of that, it will just look georgeous.
So if your taking a screen shot with your settings also have the FPS counter on screen. Type this:
renderer.drawfps 1
in the console to have the FPS displayed. Then take your screen shot and post it. That way we have some idea of the image quality as well as the performance of the card.
I have the AGP8 5700LE, Everything is on LOW, and no AA or anything esle too. Im going to buy a 6800GT, maybe i'll get one for xmas instead, and it was nice to see a screenshot with that card being used, very impressive compared to how it is now.
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For a PCI slot. So if i had a pci-E slot, it wouldn't work??
Somone tell me how to find out if i have a pci-e slot please.
Every MOBO has some PCI slots so your fine. I used to take care of little kids and pick them up from school and made $200 a week you should try that instead of doing lawns.
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