PCI card better then radeon 9250?

pokmin100 · 03-07-2009, 10:02 PM

basically the title, i have only PCI slots, and i'm looking for a step up from my radeon 9250, no pci express sadly. any ideas?

**emosun** · 03-08-2009, 12:49 PM

Yea theres a few newer pci cards that'll be a bit better. Post the rest of your specs as well. If your current cpu or ram is to slow , or out of date , a new card may not help very much(if your looking for and increase in gameing performance).

dman61992 · 03-10-2009, 08:47 PM

I was in the same situation 3 years ago and I happened to have a 9250 too. I upgraded to a X1300 but I couldn't see much of a increase of performance due to the limited bandwith of a PCI card. Best bet: Instead of wasting a $100 on a x1300, get a new mobo that happens to support the same type or ram and the same CPU that you have and a PCIe video card.

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dman61992 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Alabama, United States Posts: 51 OS: Mac OS X Leopard, Windows XP 32bit, Vista 64bit, 7 64bit	Re: PCI card better then radeon 9250? I was in the same situation 3 years ago and I happened to have a 9250 too. I upgraded to a X1300 but I couldn't see much of a increase of performance due to the limited bandwith of a PCI card. Best bet: Instead of wasting a $100 on a x1300, get a new mobo that happens to support the same type or ram and the same CPU that you have and a PCIe video card.