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Mar 12^th, 2004 at 5:35pm

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So.........I'm going to buy the Radeon 9800 and I find out that I don't have an AGP slot . I have something called an PCI (slot?) . Is this bad ? Should I feel depressed ? The helpful - and quick-talking - salesman says that what I really want is a GeForce FX5200 . Am I being waltzed down the garden path or is this really my best bet ? Also .........illegal second question......how do you guys put the nifty pictures into these queries ? Kindest regards.......Terry.

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Reply #1 - Mar 12^th, 2004 at 5:58pm

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I hate to be the bringer of bad news but pci is real bad for games. It is a lot slower than agp, unless it is pci express, but that is another story, and there are no public available boards that have that technology.

The FX5200 is a good card unless you have tasted faster cards like 5700/9600/5900/9800 then you won't be pleased by anything less.

You can get an FX5200 as a pci card, it will be a lot slower than its agp counter-part. I would look into a new motherboard and a good agp card if you have the cash to do so, if not the pci fx5200 is your best choice.

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Reply #2 - Mar 12^th, 2004 at 7:20pm

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Your onboard AGP graphics might even be faster than the PCI 5200! Don't waste your money on a PCI graphics card. Better to upgrade the mainboard to something decent with an AGP slot, it's no big deal. Just rip it all apart and start again! Grin

Any Newbies or anyone planning a purchase reading this...... don't buy a system with onboard graphics..... not if you want to have decent graphics.

Do you mean like the Pic of my X-15? It's the signature in my account settings in these forums. Or if you mean actually posting a pic, look at the instructions in the screenshot forums.

You may improve your onboard graphics, (I assume thats what you have) by going into your BIOS settings at bootup, and allocate as much shared ram as possible to the onboard graphics chip. The RAM will be "robbed" from your main memory and not "shared" as implied. So you need sufficient RAM to do that.

ie. If you have 512mb RAM

Share 128mb (many boards only share up to 32 or64mb)

Windows uses 120mb

Flight sim uses 120mb........

see the ram dwindling away?

Don't confuse the shared ram setting with the graphics window or graphics aperature setting. They are different.

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