A good pci card before i get a new pc?

[alecs36]

Well, i have a pci slot. I didn't know it was bad when i bought it. So, i have an nvidia geforce 5700, it's one of the best pci cards you can get, is there a better PCI card out?

If not, i'm just going to have to upgrade to like 2 gigs of ram to get better preformance.

[Jackass]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

LMFAO. Are you joking or just being stupid? :P

[alecs36]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

Not joking, just need some real good pc 101 lessons. If anyone hasn't noticed, i don't know crap about them.

I really need to know if there is a better pci card out.

[DeathFromAbove]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

No sir... bail out! bail out!... no way man. lol in other words no

[ataxy]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

look you will be able to find some worthy pci card out there but none are worth buying if you plan on using it for gaming as the problem is not the chipset of those card or the amount of memory it has but the problem is with the pci bridge it simply does not offer the transfert rate needed for running recent game and there dependency.
but if you really want to you may be able to find one the web some like
i.e.:
BFG Tech GeForce FX5200 Overclocked 256MB PCI Video Card

[Arec]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

I can't in good conscience recommend any PCI card. Even AGP is dated. PCI is simply ancient.

[WickedSlammy]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

look you will be able to find some worthy pci card out there but none are worth buying if you plan on using it for gaming as the problem is not the chipset of those card or the amount of memory it has but the problem is with the pci bridge it simply does not offer the transfert rate needed for running recent game and there dependency.
but if you really want to you may be able to find one the web some like
i.e.:
BFG Tech GeForce FX5200 Overclocked 256MB PCI Video Card

he said he already has a 5700, a 5200 is a step down.

[WickedSlammy]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

Well, i have a pci slot. I didn't know it was bad when i bought it. So, i have an nvidia geforce 5700, it's one of the best pci cards you can get, is there a better PCI card out?

If not, i'm just going to have to upgrade to like 2 gigs of ram to get better preformance.

Now are you sure you dont have a AGP slot cause all new computers still have atleast one PCI slot.All add in soundcards currently use PCI slots still. AGP slots are normally brown in color and are the first slot closest to the processor.The processor is gonna be where the big heatsink and fan is in case you didnt know. If you dont have a AGP slot but wanna improve your game performance you REALLY need to look into ditching that mobo and gettin one with AGP. Then you could just move everything ya already got over to the new motherboard. Depending on what cpu you have you might find one new for sale online somewhere or im sure you could find something on ebay. it shouldnt cost you much either. This way you will be able to get a much wider range of video cards. This is what you need to consider cause PCI just isnt for gaming and is the reason AGP was made.

[alecs36]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

Hmm, well i don't see any brown slots. Just 2 metal looking ones, a white one, and a grey one. When i used to run my pc on an intel intergrated chipset and went to properties where is shows your vid card, it said EXPRESS. doesn't that mean pci-e slot? pci- express? i dunno. And i'm not sure what a motherboard is, and how to move everything i have onto it. This is one reason why i bought my dell. I had to rely on a name brand to tell me what was good and what wasn't. (yea, bad idea).

So confused.

[DeathFromAbove]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

Hmm, well i don't see any brown slots. Just 2 metal looking ones, a white one, and a grey one. When i used to run my pc on an intel intergrated chipset and went to properties where is shows your vid card, it said EXPRESS. doesn't that mean pci-e slot? pci- express? i dunno. And i'm not sure what a motherboard is, and how to move everything i have onto it. This is one reason why i bought my dell. I had to rely on a name brand to tell me what was good and what wasn't. (yea, bad idea).

So confused.

What dell is it?

[ledbythereaper]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

If your getting a new pc, get a pci-e card.

[ataxy]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

he said he already has a 5700, a 5200 is a step down.

your right sorry read is post to fast

[ataxy]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

he said he already has a 5700, a 5200 is a step down.

your right sorry read is post to fast

[Talus]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

To my knowledge, the 5700 is a top-end PCI card.

And fellas...not everybody has the money to plonk out on a new system just to play BF2.

BF2 STILL plays amazingly well even on some older systems. Same game, same fun.

Max out your RAM if you don't mind spending the money on that.

Just make sure it's RAM that you can use in a new system if you upgrade sometime soon.

[Talus]

Re: A good pci card before i get a new pc?

To my knowledge, the 5700 is a top-end PCI card.

And fellas...not everybody has the money to plonk out on a new system just to play BF2.

BF2 STILL plays amazingly well even on some older systems. Same game, same fun.

Max out your RAM if you don't mind spending the money on that.

Just make sure it's RAM that you can use in a new system if you upgrade sometime soon.