PCI Graphics Card

Turlock

Hi,
I'm sorting myself out with some form of gaming lan at home, I've 8 P3 800Mhz sff pc's that need to be equipped with graphics cards but as they don't have any AGP ports I'm stuck using PCI.

I've tested a few games with an fx5200 PCI card which worked very well but when I look to try and buy these online they're very expensive.

Is there a cheaper ATI PCI card that's any use? Is the bottleneck the PC anyway so I wouldn't really be getting the most from an fx5200?
Anyone know where I'd get FX5200's any cheaper?

Games to be played:
Trackmania Sunrise
Medal of honour (first one)
Quake 3 Arena
Unreal Tournament 2003 (maybe bit sluggish with 5200)
Red Alert 2 (3d intensive I know)

Anything else people can suggest that's good for multiplayer

Any Advice at all? :eek:

Thanks

stag39

pm me i have a fx5200 pci card going for 60euro if your interested not in box but brand new..just upgraded to new pc 2 weeks after buying card...

TerrorFirmer

I think there's a pci Radeon 7000, should cost about 20 euro second hand or maybe new, 64mb, runs all those games at more or less top res with details on.

The fx5200 would not be worth it on a 800mhz pc....unless you somehow got them for dirt cheap

ACtually, theres someone on the FS forum selling an fx5200 for 25 euro...

Post a thread on the FS wanted thread looking for decent pci cards....should get some responses

Turlock

MobileInfantry wrote:

I think there's a pci Radeon 7000, should cost about 20 euro second hand or maybe new, 64mb, runs all those games at more or less top res with details on.

The fx5200 would not be worth it on a 800mhz pc....unless you somehow got them for dirt cheap

ACtually, theres someone on the FS forum selling an fx5200 for 25 euro...

Post a thread on the FS wanted thread looking for decent pci cards....should get some responses

Thanks for that are there any other good games that would run on these PC's that anyone can think of?

comphreak

What about Counterstrike??? ya can play the older versions like Condition Zero....

Turlock

Yeah I thought about that and probably will go ahead with it, but after playing CS:Source it might be a bit fugly :oP

TerrorFirmer

Games:

Counter Strike
Battlefield 1942
Soldier of Fortune II
Global Operations
Unreal Tournament
Quake III
Delta Force 1/2/3/etc
Medal of Honor
Mobile Forces
Operation Flashpoint
Serious Sam
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Command and Conquer Renegade
Kingpin
Day of Defeat 1.0
Project IGI

Those are the FPS I can think of that will run perfectly on an 800mhz machine with a decent card.

btw - UT 2k3 will run like a dog on 800mhz....

Turlock

MobileInfantry wrote:

Games:

Counter Strike
Battlefield 1942
Soldier of Fortune II
Global Operations
Unreal Tournament
Quake III
Delta Force 1/2/3/etc
Medal of Honor
Mobile Forces
Operation Flashpoint
Serious Sam
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Command and Conquer Renegade
Kingpin
Day of Defeat 1.0
Project IGI

Those are the FPS I can think of that will run perfectly on an 800mhz machine with a decent card.

btw - UT 2k3 will run like a dog on 800mhz....

Mate yer a legend and your findings for UT 2k3 are spot on, isn't totally dog but it's pretty much unplayable if yer anyway competitive