putwig

I have a buddy with a totally dead end Celeron 1.3 system.

It has some kind of half pint mobo with no AGP slot and an ok amount of generic ram.

The video is shared memory, and he wishes to start playing BF1942.

Obviously I am looking for a budget PCI vid card 64 megs that will allow low res and low detail play of some of the newer games.

So far I have found the ATI 7500 and the GF4 MX420 in PCI flavors. i thought an 8500 might be in the cards, but I have not yet seen one anywhere.

Any thoughts?

Budget is <$150 CDN or about $90 US.

Thanks!

BigAkita

I would say a GeForce4 MX440 with 64mb for about $70.00 is your best bet. That would be a better card than an ATI 7500. I found the 440 on pricewatch.

Fu3lman

if you can find those Xabre video cards in a PCI flava, they are super cheap for the features they offer, and they arent that bad (they have directx8.1 support, all the pixel shaders and stuff that the big boy video cards have, and priced less than some gf4 mx's with SDR no less!)

plus saying you got a Xabre inside sure beats saying "nvidia" or "ati", and its an underdog chipset which means you will be unique at lan parties and in case modding forums

TheOutcast

I've seen radeon 9000's in PCI, but I'd avoid anything like a GF2 or 7500... I have... bad experience with them.

scapegoat

Ya, the only company who make the Radeon 9000 in the PCI flava is Powercolor.

i have seen them at Outpost.com but it will cost ya 119 is the cheapest ive seen so far.

http://www.outpost.com/product/3487623

Hope that helps Putwig

erok

Damn.... I'm....a...ass!

scapegoat

Errrmmmm Erok , you might want to reread the post

Quote: It has some kind of half pint mobo with no AGP slot and an ok amount of generic ram.

hehe LMAO! Forgot your reading glasses this morning?

TheOutcast

read and find that he has no AGP slot to work with, EROK. Hell of a deal, if you don't get a crap-assitor problem like many have...

erok

http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=8#p61 Geforce4 PCI In stock soon!

PS. Please don't band me from the web site for not reading the post first!

Fu3lman

here we go again, lol

putwig

Hey guys thanks for the opinions!

My buddy has just ordered this:

http://www.knowledgemicro.com/detail...ame=JAT-440P_V

I have never had integrated video before. I know when I have installed audio cards into mobos with onboard sound, I have disabled the onboard sound in the bios.

Is there a similar bios nudge for onboard graphics? I did a quick tour through his bios and did not see anyhting glaringly obvious.

This is the mobo:

ecs p6stmt

I downloaded the mobo manual and it actually mentions pci graphics adapters (so I told my buddy to go ahead and order), but it said nothing about bios changes in order to do so.

Maybe when you install a card, it automatically defaults to the PCI graphics adapter?

Anyhow, anyone know?

Buzz_4_20

some motherboards automatically switch between onboard and add-in video, but others force you to change it in the settings, then change the cards. most likely it will just do it automatically.

TheOutcast

my old compaq switched from the onboard to the pci gf2mx w/out any need to f**k around in my bios.. I was kinda amazed after all the sh*t that thing had given me in the past.