Video Card Question

[Golferman443]

Alright, right now I have the BFG Geforce 5500 pci video card in my comp. Is there any other pci video card out there that is better than this card? I really would like to know because I cant run F.E.A.R on my comp. I have been looking at a Geforce 6200 pci video card, but I dont know if that is any better.

 

[KingCody]

a 6200 is better, but it's still PCI. you may be able to play it on a 6200 but only at low settings.

to be able to play newer games like FEAR at any decent quality level you will need a video card that is better than anything available to PCI. this will obviously involve replacing the motherboard at the very least.

 

[vnf4ultra]

The pci 6200 should be better, it's core clock is faster by ~100mhz. I have one, so if you want to compare scores between the pci 5500 and the pci 6200 we could. I ran 3dmark05 and aquamark3 on two computers with the card.
https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic51437.html

What are your system specs? If they're close to the system I ran this on, then we could compare scores.

 

[wolfram]

If you´re stuck with PCI, without a single doubt, the 6200 is the best choice. But you're stuck with the low PCI bandwith, and if you have many PCI expansion cards, it will get worse.

 

[Tedster]

yep - the highest card you can get for AGP is a 7800 GS. (They're not making any faster cards as the new ones use PCI-E technology.)

I just bought an EVGA 7800 GS off of ebay. Works great.

 

[wolfram]

yep - the highest card you can get for AGP is a 7800 GS. (They're not making any faster cards as the new ones use PCI-E technology.)

I just bought an EVGA 7800 GS off of ebay. Works great.

For AGP? I think he's talking about PCI cards