what is the best pci gpu? (not pcie or agp just pci)
Posted by FlintyMango6777@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 25 comments
Posted by FlintyMango6777@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 25 comments
alexceltare2@reddit
ATI Radeon HD 5450 Silent PCI
MakerKevJ@reddit
Last PCI GPU I ever bought was a HD 5450 had 512MB of ram. I moved on to PCIe and SATA pretty quickly.
DaniGMX@reddit
I have a PCI Zotac GT 610 I bought some time ago for a Pentium III AGP-less mobo. Haven't had the time to fully test it, but my goal is to achieve the best possible game performance under 98 or XP. I came with this idea because I already had this mobo and couldn't find any affordable Voodoo 3/5, so I thought it might be a feasable solution for ~40€. I haven't even checked if there are any 98/XP drivers for it, but hey, if it doesn't work I have a B plan, and I would use it as a secondary graphics card for running DOSBOX on a CRT under a Core 2 Quad system.
eduaavila1@reddit
Hey, did you test it?
pinko_zinko@reddit
Ever, or for a specific OS?
FlintyMango6777@reddit (OP)
windows xp but wont they work on different OSes?
raineling@reddit
As long as there are manufacturer drivers yes, theoretically, it should not matter which OS. This is especially true for Linux but I doubt you're going to use that.
FlintyMango6777@reddit (OP)
nah im on windows xp
soulless_ape@reddit
Probably any GeForce card around thr time of the FX5200. If you have onboard video on the computer makensure to disable it in windows device manager and or bios.
Loud_Mycologist903@reddit
I had to use a jumper to disable one of mine.
Scoth42@reddit
XP should be fine with basically any card that comes in PCI versions, I'd think, since XP stuck around so long but Windows 98 would have a cutoff. The last officially supported cards include things like the GeFore 6000-series and Radeon 9100/9800 series, though I believe some GF 7000-series cards can be made to work through some driver hacking. Later cards would have problems with Win9x.
pinko_zinko@reddit
If it were 98 I think some might not have drivers, so I figured it might help to clarify.
FlintyMango6777@reddit (OP)
what?
incrediblediy@reddit
The best I have is a ATI Radeon 7000 64MB, but I think even newer GTxxx cards were in PCI, finding one could be hard though
FlintyMango6777@reddit (OP)
gt 610?
the__gas__man@reddit
also gt 520 (same card just rebranded)
FlintyMango6777@reddit (OP)
after 10 months I already figured it out, but thx
TxM_2404@reddit
Youtuber Pixel Pipes did a video about this a few years ago. The answer isn't as straight foreward as it may seem as it is higly dependant on the game, drivers, OS and even chipset used. But if I remember correctly there were a few takeaways from this video series:
pure PCI cards particularly suffer from low memory bandwidth, which most of them have as they are budget oriented.
PCI varianrs of newer cards are rare and hard to get, so you may be stuck with whatever you can get.
the 9500GT, GeForce 520 and Geforce 430 were consistantly among the top performers with the FX5500 cards being towards the bottom.
incrediblediy@reddit
This was similar to 8600GT, which was a good card back then. I played Crysis on this lol
FlintyMango6777@reddit (OP)
what about the geforce gt610 ?
TxM_2404@reddit
It's just a rebranded GT 520. So it performs roughly the same.
FlintyMango6777@reddit (OP)
ok thx
soulless_ape@reddit
Voodoo 3 3000?
FKFnz@reddit
GeForce FX 6200 was the best PCI card I am aware of.
FlintyMango6777@reddit (OP)
thx