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"Graphics cards. Are pci graphics card any good?"

Im looking for a new graphics card, unfortunatly i only have a pci slot,no agp slot. do pci graphics cards improve graphics at all?

Im looking for a new graphics card, unfortunatly i only have a pci slot,no agp slot. do pci graphics cards improve graphics at all?

PCI graphics cards are generally slower than AGP

In theory if the PCI card has a large amount of memory you'll see very little performance drop.

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I would think a Geforce 2 on a AGP slot would be better than a geforce 2 on a PCI slot..

§n][pe® wrote:
> I would think a Geforce 2 on a AGP slot would be better than a geforce
> 2 on a PCI slot..

Yeah, because the GF2 doesn't have adequet memory.

PCI slots have less bandwidth its that simple - AGP has massive bandwidth and takes full use of it with certain graphics and game rendering(and some dvd hardware acceleration) If you have onboard graphics its bad, PCI is better but AGP 4 is best with AGP 8 still not fully utilised. You also need to consider more than the card, for instance chipset and system etc have a great impact on the cards performance. Try reading up on these things from places like toms hardware guide

here you go.
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/index.html

Who are you OkeyDokey?, you keep answering these guys before i get time to, you also seem like you know what you are talking about.

c.b.

AMD_MAN wrote:
> Who are you OkeyDokey?, you keep answering these guys before i get
> time to, you also seem like you know what you are talking about.
>
> c.b.


He is you, one and a half minutes in the future

LMAO

Im actually a cyanine dye chemist by trade but I absolutely love online gaming and as many people know if theres an interest you will learn.

Im 29 and had a games console/PC since gaming began so its more experience than training

I also play online games a lot and was a founder of a resonably good UT tribe and a Tribes 2 european number 1 clan as well as a future one although Ive now officially retired from tribes 2 im still looking for a skill tactical based game to take up (hopefully panetside)

Hope that helps