PCI-E Adaptor

[stayhigh]

Morning All

I have an old pc; AMD 3000 Winchester 64, Asus AV* Deluxe mobo, 2gb Geil DDR2 & an nVidia AGP GT6600, XP Premium. I would like to get a better graphics card for it but am limited as I have no PCI-E slots on my board. Is it possible to get an adaptor to fit a PCI-E card to my board?

Cheers

 

[jitpublisher]

Yes, they make them. However they are only PCIe x1, which means a big bottleneck to a new PCIe card. They cost around $80~$90 as well.
Google is your friend.
It is much better value wise to simply buy a board with PCIe slots on it.

 

[stayhigh]

I'd thought that would probably be the case so with that in mind what boards would people recommend with my current spec?

 

[Wolfshadw]

That depends on your budget. $200 can get you a new core system that would blow your current system out of the water:

Motherboard - MSI AM2+/AM2 motherboard - $47
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2-5200 @ 2.7GHz - $56
RAM - All Components 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2-800 1.8v RAM - $21
Graphics Card - Sapphire HD4650 PCE-Ex16 - $53

Total Cost - $177 + S&H (maybe tax depending on where you live).

If you don't have that much to spend, then maybe this HD4650 AGP or this HD 3650 AGP, but I think you'd probably be held back by your single core processor.

-Wolf sends

 

[uncfan_2563]

by PCIe x1 do you mean x16? because as far as i know, those little x1 slots don't support video cards or atleast those cards aren't worth anything.