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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?

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.

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

§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.

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

I have a special request for ftozzi: how about putting all your unanswered questions into one gargantuan post, and let people answer them one by one. Then we could pop it every now and then - and people too lazy to google could use it as a valuable resource instead of spamming up the forum.

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

PCI graphics cards are generally slower than AGP

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?