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bobby46 · 07-03-2005, 11:04 AM

Opinions please: This is for a Pavilion (8755c) PIII 800mhz 256M PC. It now uses the 1Mb integrated mobo graphics. I was looking to buy an old, used (10-20 dollar) 32Mb pci graphics card for it, but see tempting ads for brand new 128 Mb PCI bus units at around 50 dollars. With the limitation of the PC being 800Mhz and inherent PCI bus limitations, are these new (nvidia fx5200 or radion 9250)128Meg cards overkill for this application? I don't expect to run newest games at highest resolutions, but wish to upgrade beyond its current sad capability.

07-03-2005, 11:04 AM	#1
bobby46 Member (7 bit) Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 111	A sensible Vid card matchup Opinions please: This is for a Pavilion (8755c) PIII 800mhz 256M PC. It now uses the 1Mb integrated mobo graphics. I was looking to buy an old, used (10-20 dollar) 32Mb pci graphics card for it, but see tempting ads for brand new 128 Mb PCI bus units at around 50 dollars. With the limitation of the PC being 800Mhz and inherent PCI bus limitations, are these new (nvidia fx5200 or radion 9250)128Meg cards overkill for this application? I don't expect to run newest games at highest resolutions, but wish to upgrade beyond its current sad capability.