PCI graphics upgrade?

[slvr_phoenix]

I've got an old Celeron 500 box and I was just thinking about doing a cheap upgrade... A $50, give or take $10 kind of price range.

The motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot, so my only video choices are PCI.

It currently has a Savage4 PCI card. What I wanted to know is would upgrading to a PCI Geforce2MX or PCI Radeon 7000 be worth it from the Savage4? I know they're <b>all</b> pretty old by today's standards, but would there even be a noticable performance difference? When you're running a Celeron 500 box, <i>any</i> noticable performance difference is worth it. Heh heh.

But then I also think about how it's just a PCI slot, so can it even fully take advantage of a GF2MX or Rad7000? Or would that be the equivalent of running A P4b with PC100 RAM? Heh heh.

Thoughts, witticisms, and comments are appreciated.

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[10GHZ]

you'll get some performance gain by upgrading to either the GF2 mx400 or the 7000, but since the bandwith limit of the PCI slot, the PCi version of those 2 cards performs lower than the AGP version.

 

[Crashman]

With PCI cards, I haven't seen much improvement in performance since the TNT2. This is a bandwidth issue.

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[10GHZ]

exactly it

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Thanks all. That was pretty much what I figured, but I wanted to make sure.

Hmm. Well, I guess I'll just keep the Savage4 in there then until it dies or unless I ever end up with a game that has some serious artifact problems using the Savage4.

Again, thanks everyone.

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[basmic]

Why not try something such as <b>Fast Card</b> from <A HREF="http://www.pchardware.ro/Download/index.php?catid=8" target="_new">http://www.pchardware.ro/Download/index.php?catid=8</A>.

I think you could overclock your card to get the last drop of juice from it without costing you anything. After that...new cpu/mobo time I reckon!

You've probably already tried this, but why not update the drivers too?

Have fun!

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[slvr_phoenix]

I would except for the following reasons in order of least importance to most:
1) I haven't seen any programs like that which support the Savage4.
2) I could instead just overclock my PCI bus. (That is, if I ever want to ditch my PoS modem that won't run right when I do.)
3) At this point, my old PC is rather vital and I don't want to do anything to it that might shorten its lifespan.

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