Who makes a decent PCI video card?

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Tue Feb 05, 2002 11:48 pm

I'm looking for a PCI video card with 16 megs of ram or more. I guess in the one to two hundred dollar range. A client of mine gave me a HP machine. I had enough stuff laying around to upgrade it a bit. I upped it to 256 megs of ram, 466 Celeron, Sonic Vortex 2 sound, Linksys v5 NIC and an ATA-66 15Gig Quantum drive. It has an Intel 810 chipset.

Check this out, HP uses a mobo that is ATA-66 compatible and a six Gig hard drive that is ATA-66, but uses a 40 wire cable! What a group of morons. Why go through all the trouble of building a PC a not use an 80 wire cable? I just don't understand the reasoning behind that.

From HP's site, I have the 4535.

NOTE: Cable is not shipped with HP Pavilions and must be purchased separately.

terrancelam · Post by **terrancelam** » Tue Feb 05, 2002 11:52 pm

right now I think you can get a PCI Radeon 32mb card or a 64mb Geforce 2 mx-400. Either card will be a great addition for the thing

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Wed Feb 06, 2002 12:01 am

Look on ebay for a Voodoo card, or look here https://www.speedguide.net/forums/ ... adid=66695

brembo · Post by **brembo** » Wed Feb 06, 2002 1:00 am

Hercules makes some great cards, lotsa options. Dunno why I was lookin, but I stumbled onto thier site one day.

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Wed Feb 06, 2002 3:42 am

Originally posted by RoundEye
Check this out, HP uses a mobo that is ATA-66 compatible and a six Gig hard drive that is ATA-66, but uses a 40 wire cable! What a group of morons. Why go through all the trouble of building a PC a not use an 80 wire cable? I just don't understand the reasoning behind that.

Thats funny. I once bought a pc from compusa(compusa brand). Same deal, 810 chipset ATA-66 compatable. They even had a samsung ATA-66 HDD in the thing. I open it up to put in a nic and I see a 40pin cable. I was like wtf. Sometimes the only explanation is they fvcked it up!

terrancelam · Post by **terrancelam** » Wed Feb 06, 2002 4:29 am

did you read their explaination as to why there is a 40 pin cable in there? Apparently there are some "special" ata 66 cables that are 40! HAHAH fricken jokes!!! Even is such a thing existed, I'm sure the performance from the thing wouldn't be very far from ata/33 IDE cable!

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Feb 06, 2002 7:31 am

voodoo 4 4500 or voodoo 5 5000

3dfx underground lives and provides drivers!

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Wed Feb 06, 2002 10:26 pm

Any links for a company that sells a PCI video card? I looked at NewEgg, and unless I overlooked it, thay don't have any PCI video cards.

drdoug99 · Post by **drdoug99** » Wed Feb 06, 2002 10:50 pm

i'd looke at http://www.ubid.com most companies dont carry PCI vid cards, and if they do, it's very limited quantities, and very cheap cards.

http://www.spartantech.com is decent too, i've bought from them before, a PowerColor PCI TNT2 vid card.

Epyon · Post by **Epyon** » Wed Feb 06, 2002 11:18 pm

I recommend the Geforce 2 mx 400 pci 64meg, It's a great card and for only 100$(probably less if you buy it online) you can't lose.

Jigga76 · Post by **Jigga76** » Thu Feb 07, 2002 1:09 am

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Who makes a decent PCI video card?

Who makes a decent PCI video card?

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Re: Who makes a decent PCI video card?

It's fricken jokes!