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ok - this is nutz, but my g/f bought a DELL last summer WITHOUT an AGP slot (don't get me started, it was before we were dating) ...anyways - who makes a good PCI video card, something DX8 compliant (or DX9 if possible) that is inexpensive? anything has to be better than the onboard video... so HELP! 
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ooooo visiontek radeon 9100 (make sure u get visiontek, not sapphire),, 128mb I got it for $50 from www.tigerdirect.com w/ rebate,, not sure if rebate is still going or not,, but it's still a great deal and the best overall performing PCI card I saw anywhere.
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Nvidia and ATI both make decent PCI vid cards. Check http://www.pricewatch.com and look at the 128MB ones. They're all right around $60 and would probably be better than what you have now.
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yah, i figured ATI or nVidia were the best options... I'm all over that in the AGP realm (I have an ATI Radeon 9800 PRO myself)... just wanted to make sure I haven't been missing anything in PCI-land  the g/f isnt' going to be playing Half-Life2 or Doom3, just wanting to get some better performance for the kids games, etc...
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I never understood why manufacturers did that. Well, I know why they do it, but it is shadey. Yeah, it saves them a few pennies but dramatically limits your upgrading capabilities. I recently upgraded to a high end nForce chipset motherboard this summer with 8x agp (and an 8x nvidia graphics card) and this thing screams when playing video games 
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What, Intel stuff is no good?  
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I am an AMD guy myself and I won't buy another pre-assembled computer (atleast until I don't have time to continue building my own systems)
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Originally posted by perry:
What, Intel stuff is no good?
LOL - how did i know that this would come up haha
well, next time you fire up your AMD Video Chipset, we'll compete - ok? 
anyhoo... I think i can get the VisionTek 9100 PCI 64MB cards for around $55 shipped online, not too shabby...
or heck, i guess i could just buy a new motherboard
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I got the 9100 128mb for $50,, surely you can either get a similar deal or get a better deal on the 64mb.... not that 128mb really is needed for kiddie games.
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Or it could be like an IBM, all the systemboards have agp slots but they are only functional on a certain number of machine types  . Most retarded thing I had ever seen at the time.
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