PCI Video Cards?

[Charger]

I am looking at updrading my Nvidia MX2 32mb AGP card. Since my chipset(BX) can only run stable at 100 fsb speed and my AGP slot only supports 1x/2x, there are very few options out there for an upgrade. What is the low-down on PCI cards? Is there a noticible drop in performance when using the PCI slot instead of the AGP slot? And last of all, any reccomendations?

[Alfie]

You can always use an AGP card,it would run fine at 2x.
An affordable card is the Hercules Prophet,using the KyroII chipset.
That's what I'm using and it works like a champ(by default,it only runs at 2x)
It's fast,image quality is excellent,and it's cheap!
Check it out.

[glc]

If you want to run a 133 FSB, the only instability will be the AGP - you need to get a card that will handle running at 89 MHz or get a PCI card. Tom's Hardware ran a test a while ago on AGP video cards at that bus speed.

[Charger]

GLC,

Yeah, my video card DID run at that FSB speed when I had my 667/133 processor. When I upgraded to a 1000/133 it pushed the card over the edge. It ran, but frequently (and randomly) crashed. Thanks for the article, it was informative and useful.

Recent Issue:

I have downloaded Nvidia's latest Detonator Driver and DX8. Now I have a problem going from an Open GL program (X-Plane) to a Direct X program (Unreal). The video driver fails to load and I have to reboot every time I switch between these two (openGL and DX). Any others have this problem with Nvidia's new driver? What's the fix?

Thanks! TGIF!