Looking for a good PCI video card

[diesoft]

I am looking for some advice on which PCI card would give me the best possible performance in games like RTCW and Q3.

I understand that having an AGP card is pretty important for today's games, but my old pc doesn't have an AGP slot and im not quite ready financially to invest in a new machine yet.

The GeForce FX 5200 PCI looks to me like a pretty good card for being PCI.
Im running a PIII, 800mhz, 512mb sdram, 64mb Geforce2 mx 400, win98se. Would there be a considerable improvement if i bought this card, or would i just be wasting a hundred bucks?

Any suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated .

 

[gemiller]

I'd just sell that computer you have there, and buy a new one. Just my opinion though.

 

[diesoft]

Thanks for the reply gemkiller.

I have thought about that before, but I figured that the resale value of an outdated pc like this would be very low. I also have a 433mhz Celeron I could sell. Any ideas how much these could go for?

 

[diesoft]

IMO....putting a corvett part..into a VW computer...isn't going to help much.

Thats a good point MicroBell, guess ill save my hundred bucks and keep an eye out for a couple of suckers .

 

[gemiller]

Thats a good point MicroBell, guess ill save my hundred bucks and keep an eye out for a couple of suckers .

There's plenty of them, I sold two 3 dollar Sega Dreamcast games to some guy over the internet for 40 bucks and shipping!

 

[weswes]

diesoft ,
even if u got that PCI card ur looking for ur probably need to change it very soon , coz i guess u wont be able to run games soked with graphics...like Splinter cell , Vice city ...etc
dont waste ur money on a dead-card...u could wait untill u get the cash , then go into a new pc