Upgrading Video Cards

from my last post in this thread about the Ge Force fx 5200 128MB that i recieved from my cousin. that card is performing basicly as much as my old MX200 32MB card was. anyways i was lookin to up grade my card again but this time but purchasing a newer more powerfull one. my budget for this is under 200
soo whats a good buy for that amount.

 

hows this for the money


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102505

 

No can do. That card is PCIe and your current card is AGP.
You should be able to get a 6600GT AGP for under $200 if you shop around.

 

What is the difference between PCIe and AGP


something liek so
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150096

 

PCIe is the sucessor to AGP, it's just a more modern, higher bandwidth graphics periperal bus. For $209 you can get your self a 6800GS, which is a great card:good:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...TR13=&ATTR14=&ATTR15=&ATTR16=&ATTR17=&ATTR18=

 

Why did Pelvis_3 say i cant use PCI though. whats the problem.

 

Because your current motherboard has an AGP slot, not a PCI-Express slot, the only way to solve this is to upgrade your motherboard, and then your processor most likely, which you don't really want to or need to do. Just keep in mind that PCIe and PCI are not the same thing, PCI is a still in use technology on motherboards to connect periperals like soundcards and modems. PCIe is designed for new graphics cards. Hope this helps

 

PCIe is a serial technology (point to point), where as AGP and PCI are parallel. PCIe revolves around a number of lanes, each with 500MB/s transfer rate, and don't share. AGP and PCI are a bus, where different devices plug into the bus. AGP is simply a 66MHz, 32-bit PCI slot (AGP 1x, as is 1 x 66), that doesn't have to share, but by the design, it's a bus. PCIe lanes run at 100MHz, and this speed is not altered by the PCIe slot. The x16, x4, x1, etc. denote the number of lanes coming into the slot.

 

SO i can use a PCI or AGP card but not a PCIe card. Correct?

 

Yup, you can use either but it would be worthless using PCI as it's so low bandwidth that only old school, low performance graphics cards would be available, and no modern games would play well. Stick with the AGP platform, there are still great cards being made, like the 7800GS for AGP, very slick for $299.

 

cool thanks for the info everyone.

 

No problem, hope all works out for you.

 

but i never got an answer if this is a good card or not

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150096

 

Yeah that'll work, but you can save money going with a 128MB 6600GT, as you're not likely to see a real performance increase with a 256MB card. If it was a higher-end card, I could see 256MB, but that GPU does have it's limits and the 256MB wouldn't be put into before the limits hit.

 

cool thanks man.

 

I would use a fx5700 8xAGP. They are decent cards for the price.

 

It's a decent card if your under a budget. But it's not usually a good idea to invest in outdated technology, take a look at some PCI-e cards, but I'm guessing you'll have to do a complete system upgrade then.

 

Those are kinda dated now, and the FX series wasn't one of nVidia's shining moments in history.

 

Yeah go for the 6800GS if you can stretch the extra few bucks, it'll be worth it :good:

 

yea i can strech the few extra bucks for the card. but its PCIe so i would have to strech out lots of extra few bucks to upgrade my whole system in order to harness the power of the PCIe