PCI-X video card

HP ML 350 G3 with pci-x ( not pci-express ). Does anyone know of an
existing video card with the compaq pci-x interface ( i know plain
jane pci will work but I would like better performance ).

your thinkin AGP pro?

i still think he's thinkin AGP pro (extra long slot) or otherwise the card is PCI in a PCI-X slot???

Next time show a picture for them
eg: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html
or: ftp://ftp.tyan.com/img_mobo/i_s2895.tif

Oh, and if the PCI-X slot is backwards compatible (most are to PCI 3.3v, but not PCI 5v cards) then you can install a PCI (most likely 2.2 / 2.3) video card as an 'upgrade'.... sadly this limits you heaps and you'll get nothing worth bragging about in the PCI video card department

Just be thankful PCI-X is backwards compatible, but only with newer 3.3v cards, of a certain PCI version (2.2 ?) they should be key'd slightly differently. (eg: Look at an Audigy 1 vs an Audigy 2 ZS to see the difference - from memory)

You should've thought of this before buying a server

The Tyan K8WE is a fine board that is based on the nForce Pro 2200, 2050 and AMD-8000 series chipsets.... it thus sports 2 x PCIe x16 slots and supports SLI.

EDIT: Sorry, you already knew all that

You could try looking for older Matrox video cards perhaps ?, no new GPU cards will be available for you to install on that system as far as I'm aware.

GeForce 4 MX 460 for PCI slot might be it really, and the performance difference between the PCI and AGP varients once in game is not that huge so long as it has enough video memory.

If the PCI-X slots run on seperate bridges or tunnels you can run some at 100/133 or 66/100 x 64 bit, and just the video one at 33/66 x 32 bit (and sadly chances are it will be 33 MHz x 32 bit)... obviously you don't want one video card limiting other slots to the same slow ass settings.

eg: 133 MB/sec bus vs a 533 MB/sec to 1.066 GB/sec bus.

Can you get a photo of the board, and maybe link to the manual / jumper (if any) configs ?

If you're just running *nix or Solaris on it an old PCI Tseng Labs card should do the job shouldn't it ?

d00d, Radeon 8500 based cards are available in PCI as well. The 9100 is an 8500LE (renamed, that's it) and was available in PCI.

That's a full generation newer than GeForce2 cards like the GeForce4 MX460, and a full step higher market range as well.

Thanks everyone. I am using a regular pci(128mb) I got down at the
local shop. The onboard ati-rsge chip with 8mb was just not doing it for me. This thing used to be a server and is now my workstation for
oracle dev....blah, blah.
It does only have pci and pci-x slots in it. I will stick with theold
nvidia geforce 5200x that I stuck in it.
Thanks again.