Help With Gamming Card (1 Viewer)

[drobbins]

My son has an E-Machine T2682 computer. It has the white PCI slots. As he gets new games, he has outgrown the video card. I have up graded it once already to a Radeon 7000. His latest games require another upgrade. :frowning: What would be a good replacement card? I would like the upgrade to last awhile, but want to spend as little $$ as passable.

Dave

 

[Mike_J_Potter]

Since you need a PCI card there aren't many options. The best PCI card I could find is a Radeon 9250 256mb such as this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102533 the card is under 70.00 and seems to be best card I could locate. It should run allot of games though I would check the minimum specs of the game he wants to play to make sure it will play what he wants.

 

[Chris]

If you can find people who still have them, there is a Geforce 6200 that is PCI:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143058

But your easier bet is to get a Geforce 5500, which is probably the best in class for PCI right now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143059

 

[Rommel_L]

I suggest to take a look at JATON Geforce FX5700LE 128MB.

 

[Kimmo Jaskari]

The machine will have serious difficulties spinning the latest generation of games, especially if it has just PCI. Just don't go buying something like Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion and expect a good experience. You need at least 1 gigabyte of RAM to run it and a fairly top of the line PCI Express graphics card to turn on most (not all) the graphical goodness. Still, an $80 upgrade won't break the bank, I guess.

 

[drobbins]

Thanks for all the recommendations. I purchased the GeForce FX5500. Maybe some day I will buy/build a real computer.

Dave