PCI Card Upgrade?

TheBadDonkey

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Hey guys, first post.

So I pulled out this old dinosaur, a Dell Dimension 3000, which has a Nvidia Geforce 5200, 2GB of RAM, and a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz, because my other PC broke. Long story. It has Windows 7 for some reason. I must've upgraded it sometime. I took a look inside and after dusting I found the card which is of course Standard PCI slot. I decided to upgrade it, but I know that PCI is almost extinct. I was looking at a Jaton Nvidia 9400GT with 1GB VRAM, which is here:

http://www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Geforce-9400GT-2PORT-Profile/dp/B002EEAITS

It seems to have good specs for a Standard PCI Card, but the reviews aren't very good. However one only states that he got a faulty one. I was wondering if anyone else knows of any better ones? Thanks!

Oh, and please don't tell me "Just save up for a new system." I don't make money. I only have $100 to spare for a graphics card currently on this thing.
 

TheBadDonkey

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Hey thanks man! Too bad it's not at least a gig though. But I suppose that doesn't really matter because a lot of games only need 512 MB. It looks like it can support Windows Aero on Windows 7 too. The thing that really has me though is that it's memory interface is only 64-bit. That's... Pretty bad, considering that the other one is 128-bit. I would prefer 128-bit. I doubt they made any 256-bit standard PCI... did they?
 
Engineers select specs for graphics cards to meet price/performance goals.
How well they balance things is summed up in the performance rankings.
I think it is a bit of a mistake to select based on internal specs. Possibly vram might be an exception.
 

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I suppose it doesn't matter too much then. And 512 MB is enough for what I'm playing I suppose... Too bad the RAM is soldered to the PCB. Well thanks for the find! I'll be ordering it soon hopefully and I might update the results if I don't forget.