Zotac Offering GeForce GT 520 for Classic PCI Slots

Wow. Rocking the old PCI slot. Im surprised they didnt offer an AGP version as well.

hmmm sounds .... intersting.

great, now i can upgrade my pentium mmx 200mhz to dx11 capable video.....ditch the 2 x voodoo2 sli.......

If you're upgrading really old systems then an AGP card would be a better fit. All the entry level cards would not be bottlenecked on the PCI slot anyway.

PCI 5450 got competition!

yea.. why not agp instead? theres agp when pci is arround. the only system that has pci only was pentium 1. (

Wow. I guess if you're stuck with an old POS OEM machine with no AGP slot, this is at least an option. Of course, setting such a machine on fire might be a better option.

As recently as 2006 there were OEM systems with no AGP slot, and PCI only. I've seen them with higher-end 533FSB P4's. Not that a GT520 would really perform all that well on a system like that, but $60 is a lot better than $350 if your graphics card fails. And it doesn't hurt that it's DX11, cuz new systems still have PCI and it would be able to drive a second monitor when the person in that situation finally does get a new system.

not sure but i think this is because teh way dx 11 communicates with the computer , it' needs a shared buss system , agp does not share a bus , also keep in mind the intention might also be to to SLI the cards , soemthing that also can only be done on a shared bus like old PCI or PCI-E

set on fire NAH never , you forget the useful ness of old systems for old games , hell i'm still looking for a copy of win 95 i misplaced so i can do a dual boot on my system to play gmaes that don't play in win xp or win 7. imagine rockign those old games with win 95/98 and this video card on an intel P4 yah for nostaglia gaming !

on second thought though steam does offer many odl gmaes that work great on even 64 bit versions of win 7

and your comment was funny as hell !

Funny how there are a LOT of modern machines out there that are sporting modern processors (quad core territory) that have NO pci-e slots. Thanks to OEM's being cheap-asses, there's a lot of eMachines, Compaq, HP, Dell, and several others out there that no way to upgrade the grapnics. I've got an old Core 2 Duo E8400 media center PC that has 2 PCI slots, and that's it. You either use the onboard video (absolutely horrid SiS IGP) or shove something into a PCI slot and push on. Or if not for upgrading the onboard, possibly adding a 2nd video card for multi-monitor setups on systems that only have 1 PCI-e slot. There really is a market out there. And to the poster that commented "surprised there's no AGP version", I completely understand why there's not. NO new systems are manufactured with AGP slots. However, PCI is still everywhere.

Which games, I'm curious. All the oldies that I still have on their original cd like Monkey Island and Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis run through an emulator called Scummvm. You made me wanna play the old school point and click Indiana Jones now

Mail to: CERN superluminal neutrino research facility.

Note: Send this back in time to back in 1995. Thanks in.. advance?

Maybe another Physx option?

Useful if you want to use SLI without two PCI-E x2 slots.

Back to topic. I wonder if this would be useful for people looking to have a multi-monitor setup. Can this be combined with a pci-ex card to have multiple monitors?

Cheap(hopefully) PhysX card and in a different slot. Nice.

LMAO SLI!!! dude I dont think you can sli these cards on standard pci slots......

PCI is still useful and everyone here should have at least 1 PCI videocard.

and here is the reason. When ever you are modding the video bios of your PCI-e videocard, if something messes up, you will need a PCI videocard so that you can see as you rerun the flash tool and restore the original bios.

(I have a old geforce 2 that I keep around just for this)

another benefit is if you don't game you can load each PCI slot with a videocard that supports dual display. (a factory that I do computer repair for has a system with a 4 PCI videocards driving 8 monitors so keep each security camera in view.

PCI slot, eh? I'm sure the card's probably choked to death with that slot, but nonetheless I commend Zotac for trying this strategy.

this is not for old systems

Thats what I was thinking At least, not the version of SLI we have now a days. The old Voodoos, like you mentioned, are the only ones that come to mind, and even then, completely different implementation. Honestly, as was pointed out above, the only use I could see would be where you need more monitors, and have no more PCI-Express slots, or just need an emergency backup card.

I see no reason why it couldn't.

I know for a fact that one could simultaneously use AGP and PCI cards to simultaneously drive different displays... And I seem to recall this proving true with PCI-e & PCI, so I'd actually be surprised if you couldn't do that with this card.

Wow, this is unexpected... I thought PCI GPUs would not appear anymore. Happy I'm wrong, though... hehe.

As for the usefulness of a PCI video card, I can think of a few... For instance, there are A LOT of mini-ITX Atom boards with a single PCI expansion slot. Dropping one on an old D945GCLF2 (330) will enable a simple HTPC. Of course, you could probably get a new Brazos board for about the same price, but the option is there. And, of course, as many have said, sometimes even AGP is unavailable on OEM systems. Heck, there are some that even offer PCIe 1x or PCI, not PCIe 16x!

As for SLI, please, not only are these cards too low-end to be of any good in SLI mode, but the SLI bridge is not available on low-end cards, and cramming data through a SHARED 133MBps bandwidth bus is hard enough when only one card is requesting it, let alone two... And if you actually have a PCI-based Gigabit adapter, good luck transferring data when using the GPU at the same time... Not going to happen...

Finally, as for PhysiX, it might be useful, but I remember reading a review, back in the day, that said anything short of a 260 series card will not be much good for it (as a dedicated card, obviously). I don't know how the 520 compares to the 260, but it might be nice.

And there is, of course, yet another use for this kind of card: adding it to a massive Folding machine. It might not do much on its own, but if the folding system can handle it (and if the semi-homogeneous GPU requirement has been dropped, I have not checked on that in quite a while), this little card can actually give out a bit better Folding per cm3 ratio... hehe

In any case, I'm glad someone keeps looking out for users with specific needs (PCI and PCIe 1x are high on that list, for quite a few).

Cheers.

Miguel

Any plans for ISA slot too?

at first i was thinking

"if you have such an old computer than pci is the next best option, you also have a sub 2ghz single core processor, and cant pissibly play any game that would be worth the effort, just get a 400$ pc and it would already be worlds ahead of what you currently have"

than i remembered my friend, his family got a dell, with no agp slot so no upgrade path. (at the time, pcie 16 was brand new, and no cards of any power were a viable option for the kind of gaming he wanted to do. this would be a step above intergrated. but at this point, just scrap the pcs motherboard and install a good one. you have a good processor, decent ram, and everything else, just upgrade the mobo and get a pcie 2 mid range, it would probably be a better option than this (and a lesson in computer building, something i believe everyone should have) at the very least.

I have a really nice Xeon 3.06Ghz dual CPU server that I'd love to improve a bit and use, rather than just have it sitting on a cupboard doing nothing. It ONLY has PCI slots, no AGP at all, so this new Zotac card will fit the bill perfectly.

better off with 4670agp version tbh

awesome, I have kept on old P3 783MHz box around for playing pre-millennium games and because it has a full sized serial port which I use for some FPGA design. It would be nice to upgrade it after 8 years (it's still rocking a 5200fx). It only has PCI, no AGP.

Time for a PCI vs PCIe lab showdown!