good PCI based graffics card

**Peppers** · 09-08-2009,06:27 PM

My computers real old but it suites me well enough. But as flash players and such continue to require greater resources graphics related things such as HD videos wont play very well. For this reason I need a graphics card. So what should I get? My computer don't got no fancy graphics ports so I need PCI.

**Bootlegninja** · 09-08-2009,07:21 PM

I personally like nvidia. ATI (both embedded and standard pci) has been horrible and causes problems.

here's a cheap one from ebay that should do just fine for you.

http://cgi.ebay.com/nVIDIA-GeForce-F...d=p3286.c0.m14

**Dangwoot** · 09-08-2009,10:02 PM

lol! sorry cant help but laugh i used to have a fx5600 256mb card back in the day it worked fine for me ^_^

**H4ndy** · 09-09-2009,09:32 AM

Just for your information, there is no PCI grafics cards known to me, which helps your CPU to decode HD video.

You need at least:

nVidia GeForce 7 (2 generations newer than those "FX" cards) or
ATi Radeon X13** (R500 GPU)

Which have those multimedia "helper units". They are called "NVIDIA® PureVideo™" on nVidia cards and "Unified Video Decoder/UVD" on ATi cards.

Both are very hard to get with AGP slot, and there are no PCI versions as far as I know.

**Peppers** · 09-09-2009,02:04 PM

Yeah thats that I've been hearing on a differint website

**Bootlegninja** · 09-09-2009,02:54 PM

Might be time to upgrade the cpu and use the old one with a copy of the FreeNAS OS to make it a media server.

**Peppers** · 09-09-2009,05:12 PM

yeah Ive been considering getting a new computer and turning the current one into a file server, but I am not looting forward to waisteing the money on a new computer

**Bootlegninja** · 09-09-2009,06:40 PM

Aye, that is true. but what are the basic specs on your cpu? if you're talking low end p3/celeron, or even p2, it's amazing it even lasted this long in usefullness. I just got done switching my old socket 370 1.2GHz Celeron to be a file server. (still working the bugs out.) but it looks promising.

**Peppers** · 09-09-2009,07:13 PM

1.5ghz celeron. I considered getting a faster CPU since you can get the fastest of this socket type (478) used for about $6 but the BIOS support for this motherboard sucks. I tryed hacking in support for better cpu's but I failed. Good thing I have an eeprom programmer or I would have been in trouble then.

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