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graphics card?
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Posted by: LOZZa
jus wonderin whether a agp graphics card will fit in a pci slot? Coz i cant find a decent pci gra[phics card!
Posted by: IceBreaker
With a hammer - maybe (...)
Posted by: SKYHN
You cant find a decent PCI video card because there are none.
What are your system specs(Mobo, Ram, CPU, etc)?
Posted by: IceBreaker
Lozza> Actually, PNY (Verto), amongst others, do sell relatively "decent" PCI vcards (ie. GFX 5200 128Mb VRAM, etc), u might find this of some interest..
Posted by: redwench
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Originally posted by LOZZa
jus wonderin whether a agp graphics card will fit in a pci slot? Coz i cant find a decent pci gra[phics card!
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nope. if you dont have an agp slot, you need to suffer through pci cards.
Posted by: LOZZa
yeh cheers but i was jus wonderin whether any pci cards will be powerful enough to play splinter cell pandora tommorow because i cant find one with high enough pixel resolutions.
Posted by: The-AoD
Look at New Egg and check thier supply of PCI graphics cards. While you'll never find a "decent" performing PCI card, there are some that will be powerful enough for splinter cell most likely. PCI graphics cards aren't going to perform near as well as an AGP card, mainly from the limited configuration and bandwidth of the front side bus. Best idea for you, if you're wanting something that's going to do any good at gaming at all, is replace your motherboard with one that has an AGP slot, if yours does not. AGP cards perform ALOT better than PCI. 
Posted by: Antti2004
Very true, The AoD has the right answer.
Posted by: redwench
there are pci cards from both the fx xeries and the radeon 9000 series. both would be considered budget agp cards, and dont perform great. but they are the best on the market for pci.
Posted by: NegotiatorSmith
Here's a little story for you...
"A customer had bought a computer from us about a year ago and a Voodoo 3 card just yesterday. He took it home and tried to install it but couldn't, so he brought them both in this morning. He ranted and raved, etc. He had reboxed the Voodoo 3, expecting a replacement, so we took the computer and the Voodoo 3 in the back and told him we would fit it for free. When we opened the box for the Voodoo 3, it was in a terrible state. The bit of metal that attaches the card to the case was taken off, and a wee heatsink had been scraped off the chip with a screwdriver. I reglued the sink and reattached the backplate. So we opened the machine, and tried to fit the card. Ack. Card is AGP, computer has exactly zero AGP slots. So we went back to the front.
Me: "Sir, your computer has no AGP slots, and this is an AGP video card."
Customer: "Yeah, but the card fit perfectly into the little white slot."
Me: "Which white slot?"
Guy: "There's five of them -- little white ones. There's a spare one."
Me: "The PCI slot? Uhh...it shouldn't...let me check."
Sure enough, if you remove the heatsink and backplate, turn the card around, and really hammer it into the only free PCI slot, it will just fit snugly next to the hard disk.
We explained that the AGP card was completely destroyed and he had voided the warranty on it by hacking away at it with a screwdriver. The usual mad customer vs. techie exchange ensued, but he eventually backed down and bought the PCI version instead...and got us to fit it."
Taken from: http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_abuse.shtml
I just had to post this story since this thread reminded me of it. 
Posted by: IceBreaker
Golly! And to think that I was just kidding with my suggestion about the hammer.. http://213.246.40.109/images/perso/_q2_.gif
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