Looking for an afordable Graphics Card to Play SH4
 

I have only a PCI slot and I need a card with 2.0 shader support.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

PCI or PCI-E?

If it's really just PCI, I think it's time for a new computer. The best I could find is an X1300, generally. Hightech has an X1550, but it's a dual-slot card which requires you to have two adjacent open PCI slots to use.

Yup, if you're stuck with plain-old PCI, chances are the rest of the PC won't be up to scratch either, so, even if you did manage to find a PCI card that would do the job (unlikely), the CPU & RAM would probably let you down...

PCI
 

PCI

I have a dell optiplex not the tower version and it has a slot for a low profile agp though

CPU
 

It is a 2.8 GH with 1gb of ram and runs SH3 great

the only draw back is it is a desk top and not a tower

Thanks
 

Thanks for the info

Thank you to all that helped me
 

Thank you

...but is it a Celeron? If not, great. As for the low-profile AGP slot, you may still struggle to find a card worth spending any money on outwith E-Bay.

Actually, if he has a low-profile AGP he can really do something. They aren't quite the same power level as the PCI-E cards out there, but there are AGP versions of the 7800GS and X1950 graphics cards available, typically for around $200 US.

I stand corrected... :)

Yikes...

Low profile doesn't just mean the width of the card board itself, it also means a shorter plate too for his computer. Might take some searching to find one, or you may get lucky and be able to cut part of the plate off it to make her fit.

Hmmm... that's the "low-profile" I was referring to, i.e., half-height backplate versions. I've always had a problem sourcing low-profile but reasonably high-spec cards for customers in our shop, specifically those who are unwilling to shell-out for a whole new PC.

Yep, they're a pain in the @ss.:-?

Any good card for an AGP slot ?? and not very expensive :88)

7XXX or Ati equivalent