Re: Shopping for a good cheap video card

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Glauser wrote:
> You need to be aware of what sort of slot his computer has for video 
> cards.  The two alternatives are AGP and PCI-E (aka PCI Express).  I 
> can't remember when PCI-E became standard, but I think with a two year 
> old PC you could have either.

PCI is also an option ... but only for older computers.

My scorched earth machine has built in video with shared memory ... I wanted to install better video in it, so I had to search for a PCI based video card.

I found one (oddly enough, at TigerDirect) that wasn't bad.

david