PCI Cards

[Scope355]

I recently bought a new computer to descover it only had onboard graphics of 32mb, and the motherboard only has PCI slots. Im not too bothered with playing high end games but would like to be able to play some games. I would like some advice on what graphics card would be the best for me as i really dont know much about graphics cards at all, obviously i cannot get a top graphics card as i can only get PCI. I have narrowed it down to these few cards from dabs.com.

Gainward GF FX5200 128MB PCI TVO DVI-O
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...ode=1&NavigationKey=11137,41600000,4294957149

Sapphire Technology Radeon 9250 128MB PCI VO
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...ode=1&NavigationKey=11137,41600000,4294957149

EVGA GeForce FX5200 128MB PCI
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...ode=1&NavigationKey=11137,41600000,4294957149

XFX GeForce FX5200 128MB DDR PCI VO RP
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...ode=1&NavigationKey=11137,41600000,4294957149

DabsValue NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 256MB DDR PCI DVI VO
http://www.dabs.com/productview.asp...ode=1&NavigationKey=11137,41600000,4294957147

My system is a Fujitsu Siemens SCENIC Edition X102 with a 3.06ghz P4 processor with 735mb RAM, running on windows vista ultimate.

Also, i have heard that PCI graphics cards are not great anyway, will putting any of these graphics cards in my computer make much of a difference compared to 32mb onboard graphics?

 

[Geoff]

There are much higher end PCI video cards if you have some more money.

Out of those, I would just go with the cheapest FX5200 you can find.

 

[Bobo]

Vista will have a hard time running on a P4, 768MB of RAM, and a PCI video card.

How much money do you have to spend on a video card?

 

[Scope355]

The system seems to be running fine so far. I may upgrade the memory as well to a gig or two but thats not on the cards right now. I dont wana spend too much, about £60 (roughly $120), any suggestions other then the ones i posted would be great as well, but bearing in mind the place it would be from would have to be available to the UK. Like i said, i dont know much about graphics cards and dont know how much of a benefit it would be to me. So if someone can tell me how much i would actually benefit from a graphics card in this range.