What were the last of the best PCI gaming cards?

[DMH42]

Hi There

Just been given a dual Opteron 280 system. Alas it's on a server m/board with only PCI-X. Which makes it backwards compatible to PCI only . I've been told to look for a 6200 or 9850 PCI.. when were these produced? Would they complement this system, or underpowered?

If so, should I splash out and find a PCIe m/board, an what card would you recommend for such a system? I'm not going to upgrade the PC after this for a while (not a major gamer) so I'm trying to spend as lil as possible for most bang for the buck.

Thankyou!

 

[amnotanoobie]

A 6200 or 9850 is immensely slow by today's standards. You probably couldn't even run the modern games at their lowest settings.

Alas, you can't do anything that would make that system gaming worthy by any measure today.

 

[DMH42]

A 6200 or 9850 is immensely slow by today's standards. You probably couldn't even run the modern games at their lowest settings.

Alas, you can't do anything that would make that system gaming worthy by any measure today.

Thanks bruv. I currently have an Athlon XP 2000+ with a 256Mb 9600 Pro.

So relatively speaking, it'd still be a major upgrade for me.
At least I'll be able to play 5 year old games on max settings!

thanks for your help...

 

[wh3resmycar]

theres a pci version of a hd2400 and 8400gs also.

 

[gamerk316]

I *think* they made a PCI version of the ATI 2400, but really, there hasn't been a "gaming" card for PCI for a while now...don't expect much, whatever you get.

 

[djbrad007]

Hi There

Just been given a dual Opteron 280 system. Alas it's on a server m/board with only PCI-X. Which makes it backwards compatible to PCI only . I've been told to look for a 6200 or 9850 PCI.. when were these produced? Would they complement this system, or underpowered?

If so, should I splash out and find a PCIe m/board, an what card would you recommend for such a system? I'm not going to upgrade the PC after this for a while (not a major gamer) so I'm trying to spend as lil as possible for most bang for the buck.

Thankyou!

The max I see now is 9500GT :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139046

However, I have the 9400GT in PCI, the bus is bottlenecking too much the card,

TF2 lags at 1280x1024 with a dual-core at 2.4ghz

PCI is such a bottleneck that dxva acceleration had a lag every x seconds.

I really don't recomment getting a pci card.

Get a new pc.

Brad