[slza2reel]

looking to upgrade the ol comp, i have a 6-7 year old card atm. i was just wondering if anyone could offer some advise or input on a decent card. im only looking to run swg on low settings, hoping to increase the frame rate a bit, or at least keep it from spiking so much. PCI card is what need, newegg has a couple i was scoping out-

this one to be specific (trying to stay 40-60$ price range)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814134073

don't know too much bout all them numbers on these cards, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

[Fozzik]

Wow.

6-7 years ago, PCI was already old for a graphics interface. Way back then you probably should have moved to a motherboard with AGP instead of getting a PCI graphics card.

AGP replaced PCI as the primary discrete graphics interconnect back in 1997, and AGP itself started getting phased out back in 2004...so you're talking about plugging a graphics card into an interface that stopped getting used for graphics more than 10 years ago.

What is this computer you have? Was it an OEM machine with integrated graphics that just left off the graphics slot all together?

The reason I mention all of this is because it's very likely that even with the best graphics card you can get for the PCI interface, you are likely not going to see much improvement in performance at all in games.

I'm betting the other hardware in the machine is going to hold you back, not to mention the very slow PCI bus strangling the life out of your new graphics card.

[rabb1t]

As mentioned your other parts will hold you back even with the best of (old-school) PCI cards. That being said, it is unlikely that even a high-end PCI card will have the power to run (more current) games at a decent speed. Not to poo poo anything, but it's way past time to investigate building (or buying) a new system.

If you must try sticking with PCI I'd say try something like this Evga 9400 GT at $70 post rebate. I can say though that with those specs you are probably going to struggle quite a bit even at lower res with current games. But, at least with Evga you'd have the 90-day step-up policy should you decide to go ahead and upgrade the entire system. You could then send in the 9400 GT to Evga and trade up to something vastly more powerful, like the 9800 GT for only about +$30.