Please recommend a cheap PCI graphic card

You <b>might</b> be able to find one for around $10 on Ebay, from someone who is REALLY looking to throw away an ancient 1MB Trident VGA (not SVGA) - they have to be desperate to sell it and not care how much they get for it, they just want to get it off their hands. But then such an old card would probably be ISA, not PCI

Retail wise this will be literally impossible. The materials used to compose the circuit board, the plastic, fiber glass, copper, silicon, etc... and the larbor involved in the manufacturing and marketing processes prevent the sale of a card at such a low price.

If Comp USA has a special Father's Day sale again, you could possibly find one for about $30 or so.

I sold a GeForce 2 MX, 32 meg, AGP card to Owl for 10 dollars, but I'm not retail.... and for gaming that card is very low end nowdays

As for as card recommendations themselves, SiS makes a really cheap 16MB PCI card. I advised my parents to buy one for their vintage P2 system (which they do nothing with but basically e-mail).

Dude, PCI SVGA cards are almost 10 years old now. My dad & I have sold 1 meggers for $10 for people in need over a year ago. Surely he can find one somewhere for less than $10 or $15. Now it won't be able to run any of the new games of course. If it must be under $10, I guess he could always load up Quake 2, HL, or possibly even UT (very doubtful it would run well, but it <i>does</i> have software rendering support mode).

"640k ought to be enough for everyone." - <b><font color=red>BILL GATE$</b></font color=red>

Well actually if he can find a Voodoo3 card for that price he could play Quake 3 or Jedi Outcast or something, but one a reduced setting of course.

"640k ought to be enough for everyone." - <b><font color=red>BILL GATE$</b></font color=red><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by UFO_WARVIPER on 10/31/03 02:25 PM.</EM></FONT></P>