Just posing a question for a friend, she's got and eMachine and her little girl got a few games to play on it (nothing demanding just basic kids 3D titles). Trouble is the intel built in graphics can't handle the games so I said I'd take a look. Shes got an IM845GL MATX board with NO AGP! Does anyone know if there are any PCI versions/equivalent graphics cards like the ATI 9200 or Geforce 5200? I only follow the AGP markets so I've drawn a blank on this front, can anyone help?
you try pricegrabber? (http://www.mountainmods.com/cgi-bin/product.pl?item=U2UFOBCWRL) searching under pci card grafics to get an idea what out there?
Got me a ATI 9000 PCI from www.ebuyer.co.uk to use as a second card - it's not quite 9200 (clearly!!!!), but it's good enough for most games with the settings down running at 1024x680. Wasn't that expensive either
i have an emachines ..my parents got it for me for christmas. but anyway i just got a Xtasy 9200 256MB PCI card and it works great for what i want to do.
I'd say the best pci card you can is the gainward 5200... i think it was about £60, but dont trust me on that too far
Cheers guys, we're going to go with the FX5200, its about £45 if you shop around and it'll easily handle the games her daughter plays.
