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Title: Upgrading an old PC.
Post by: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on February 19, 2013, 08:13:08 PM: I am upgrading an old pc to play low end games but the graphics card is a little underpowered. Does anyone know what the "best" graphics card for a PCI (1.0) slot would be?
Title: Re: Upgrading an old PC.
Post by: YourMathTeacher on February 19, 2013, 08:21:10 PM: Quote from: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on February 19, 2013, 08:13:08 PM
I am upgrading an old pc to play low end games but the graphics card is a little underpowered. Does anyone know what the "best" graphics card for a PCI (1.0) slot would be?

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Title: Re: Upgrading an old PC.
Post by: lp670sv on February 19, 2013, 09:03:46 PM: Quote from: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on February 19, 2013, 08:13:08 PM
I am upgrading an old pc to play low end games but the graphics card is a little underpowered. Does anyone know what the "best" graphics card for a PCI (1.0) slot would be?

PCI Express x16 2.0 is backwards compatible with 1.0 so you can use some relatively modern cards.
Title: Re: Upgrading an old PC.
Post by: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on February 20, 2013, 09:28:09 AM: Quote from: lp670sv on February 19, 2013, 09:03:46 PM
Quote from: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on February 19, 2013, 08:13:08 PM
I am upgrading an old pc to play low end games but the graphics card is a little underpowered. Does anyone know what the "best" graphics card for a PCI (1.0) slot would be?

PCI Express x16 2.0 is backwards compatible with 1.0 so you can use some relatively modern cards.

any suggestions on a good card that would run Starcraft 2 and LoL?
Title: Re: Upgrading an old PC.
Post by: lp670sv on February 20, 2013, 02:08:55 PM: Quote from: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on February 20, 2013, 09:28:09 AM
Quote from: lp670sv on February 19, 2013, 09:03:46 PM
Quote from: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on February 19, 2013, 08:13:08 PM
I am upgrading an old pc to play low end games but the graphics card is a little underpowered. Does anyone know what the "best" graphics card for a PCI (1.0) slot would be?

PCI Express x16 2.0 is backwards compatible with 1.0 so you can use some relatively modern cards.

any suggestions on a good card that would run Starcraft 2 and LoL?

depends on the rest of your parts, no point buying a good graphics cards if you're gonna get bottlenecked by your CPU/RAM and considering it's a PCI E 1.0 board I suspect you might.
Title: Re: Upgrading an old PC.
Post by: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on July 20, 2013, 09:54:41 PM: Random update:

CPU: Intell Pentium 4 3.00 GHz (dual core)
3.50 gb of RAM (It would be 4 but one of the sticks i bought was bad...)
Graphics card (pci 1 slot): RADEON X600 (0x5B62)
Pixel Shader version 2.0
Vertex Shader version 2.0
Dedicated Video RAM 256 MB

I'm mostly looking at upgrading the graphics card since it'd be the easiest to give it a gaming boost.

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