Im in a hurry PLEASE!

[adrenalin]

K i got

2.6 celeron
512 ram
and integrated vid card.

i need to lan in 4 hours and planning to buy a pci vid card.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2227160&CatId=319

fx 5500 pci card

im only going to play counter-strike 1.6
1.6 not source.

its kind of old.
Will it work well??

Im in a hurry so no bs pleasE!!!

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

No it won't work well, and unfortunately no better than an FX5200 or R9200 PCI cards.

The cards will be bus limited, and while it will likely play, it will suck alot hard than a regular FX (even FX5200SE) and they already suck!

But if you have no other option, it's likely the only thing to do in a pinch.

And while there is a GF6200 and GF7300 out there in the wild for PCI, neither will offer any better gaming performance IMO.

 

[adrenalin]

Ahhhhhh

but its cs 1.6...
which came out like 7 years ago (1.1)

my sis's fx5200go w/ centrino 1.5
gets 500+ fps in the game
are you 100% sure with CS1.6??????????????

 

[enforcerfx]

u get 500+ fps in 1.6 on a fx5200? thats crazy anways ya if your in a rush, the 5200 will hold out, but RMA it afterwards.

 

[HYST3R]

i have a pci fx5500 and it will play cs 1.6 easily with 100 fps.

especially with a 2.6ghz processor you will be jsut fine for what you want to do with it.

there might even be a 9xxx series ATI card in PCI bus that would work also, but the FX5500 is jsut fine.

 

[HYST3R]

why would you say it wouldnt work well,

fx5500's play cs 1.6 with 99 fps (max for game) with the settings set on high *if i remember right.

cs 1.6 is not a gpu demanding game.

 

[adrenalin]

thx i love you.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

why would you say it wouldnt work well,

Because compare to a full AGP FX5200 it will still underperform (and these are test from that generation). The operative word here is work well, I said it would play it, everyone's definition of 'well' is different. But it's a cripple pure and simple.

fx5500's play cs 1.6 with 99 fps (max for game) with the settings set on high *if i remember right.

cs 1.6 is not a gpu demanding game.

FX5500AGP =/= FX5500PCI, and while the PCI will do in a pinch it isn't worth buying as a long term card. And while it may be 'OK', it's going to be terrible compared to AGP cards.

Sudhain's review illustrates this the best;
http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/articles/show/445

And like I said while it will play it still sucks.
Reread my post and understand what I'm saying.

 

[enforcerfx]

ya and plus, the PCI video cards now, are worthless and junk. Reason i told him to RMA it after he was done with it, is to get his money back, i wouldnt want to keep the card myself either.