video card

[serge2k]

is this a good video card
ATI Radeon 7000 64MB PCI Video Card

[olger901]

1: Never take PCI since AGP is cheaper and has more features and atvantages. 2 Don't buy an Ati Radeon 7000 lots of known problems with it. Go for a Good Geforce 3 Ti 200 64 Meg DDR Ram It's almost 40% faster then that ati card is and 2nd a Geforce 3 has the same price (at least where I live) as a Geforce 3 Ti

[Vinni]

if u wanna dish out USD 80- 100 $ go for the radeon 8500...
if not wait a month and see how the XP4 (by trident) does..
i think it'll be worth the 69 or 79$ price tag,

[grantu2]

Yeah like olger901 said the driver problems on the ati 7000 cards are bad.

And like Vinni said wait for the trident card to come out.

But getting any new card isn't going to help your computer fps rate if you got a low-end computer. Try matching a good computer with a good card. example

1ghz computer with a geforce3 ti: will give you great gamming proformance.

500hmz with an ati 9700 you'll have a bottleneck on the limit, because of your cpu although your gpu is a top notch card you won't see a fps difference if you installed a geforce256 or a ati9700 in a rig like this.

[serge2k]

Ok can you reccommend a good card for a
AMD duron 1000Mhz
with 256 MB of pc 133 sdram
and I don't think my motherboard has an agp slot

[gannondorf]

it has. and btw, dont get nvidia, get an radeon 9000, it's cheaper than 8500, because it's on some major discount everywhere right now. and it's $15 expensiver than 7000.

[serge2k]

I looked at my motherboard and the manual and there isn't an agp slot

[Vinni]

u must be mistaken .. it's very.. hold on .. impossible YOU HAVE AN AGP SLOT.. look the picture of ur motherboard. look for a white slot on it. the green or black ones are pci slots . and there should be 1 white slot smaller then the other slots which is ur agp.

the SLOTS look like long black or white leggos maybe 10 cm .

[serge2k]

It is not in the manual maybe I can look at the motherboard itself again

[grantu2]

Actually Black slots are for RAM; White for PCI; Brown for AGP. At least thats the universal color code but If you bought your computer from people who like to make mb's unique it might be different.

I would recommend a Geforce3 ti500 or an Ati 9000 Both won't cost you more then 40-55 used 55-75 new. It's my personal feeling that only a 1.5ghz computer, should be matched with today's highend graphics card. deduct 500mhz for every generation gpu. So if you have a 1ghz a geforce3 would be ok, 500mhz a geforce256-geforce2 would be ok.

If you don't have an agp slot and only pci, then its best to go with a pci nvidia card, because I think the latest pci ati card is the 7000 which isn't a good card to get. Actually I would opt for a new motherboard with an agp slot.

[Vinni]

grantu is probably right about the color.. but mine is very different.. i've had 3 mother boards and all had white(agp) black(pci), and green(ram). currently i have a K7V Slot A.

u should have 4 to 5 brown slots with a good relative distance(pci). 4-6 green slots that are scarcely seperated(ram). and ONE white(or brown) slot smaller than any one of em and it should be beside the PCIs as well as being parallel to em.