PCI or AGP Video board?

[Guest]

I have Vista up and running on a second HD on my Sony Vaio, 5 year old
desktop. By going into the BIOS at boot up I can decide which drive to use as
primary which allows me to do XP or Vista. This way I don't have to worry
about screwing up my old system. I use USB 2.0 external hard drives for my
storage needs and back up (I added a USB 2.0 card).

System:
Sony Vaio PCV-RG24Z
2.6 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 Processor
2 Gig of RAM
Plenty of hard drive space
Giga Pocket card for pulling in Video and built in Cable/TV Tuner
nVidia MX440 AGP video card 64 Meg

Obviously I can’t run Aero Glass, but I would like to replace the video card
so I can.
My question is this: Should I replace the video card with an nVidia 6200 OC
PCI card or similar? I have an empty PCI slot.

Or should I get an AGP card and put it in the open slot where the old card
was?

My choices are somewhat limited because all the newer video cards only work
with the PCI Express Mother Boards, which of course mine is not.
I could switch to ATI but would prefer nVidia.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Mark

 

[Tom Scales]

I have Vista up and running on a second HD on my Sony Vaio, 5 year old
desktop. By going into the BIOS at boot up I can decide which drive to use
as
primary which allows me to do XP or Vista. This way I don't have to worry
about screwing up my old system. I use USB 2.0 external hard drives for my
storage needs and back up (I added a USB 2.0 card).

System:
Sony Vaio PCV-RG24Z
2.6 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 Processor
2 Gig of RAM
Plenty of hard drive space
Giga Pocket card for pulling in Video and built in Cable/TV Tuner
nVidia MX440 AGP video card 64 Meg

Obviously I can't run Aero Glass, but I would like to replace the video
card
so I can.
My question is this: Should I replace the video card with an nVidia 6200
OC
PCI card or similar? I have an empty PCI slot.

Or should I get an AGP card and put it in the open slot where the old card
was?

My choices are somewhat limited because all the newer video cards only
work
with the PCI Express Mother Boards, which of course mine is not.
I could switch to ATI but would prefer nVidia.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Mark

AGP -- no brainer.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, that's what I'll get.

Mark

AGP -- no brainer.

 

[Guest]

I think you should get a PCI card. Don't they run faster and better?

Craig

 

[Zapper]

No, PCIe are the new fast standard, PCI cards are old, and hard to find. I
would be surprised if any of them could run AeroGlass

 

[Guest]

No, PCIe are the new fast standard, PCI cards are old, and hard to find. I
would be surprised if any of them could run AeroGlass

AGP faster than PCI then?

 

[Tom Scales]

AGP faster than PCI then?

AGP is faster than PCI
PCIe is faster than AGP
Therefore, PCIe is faster than PCI.

The OP doesn't have a PCIe slot, just AGP and PCI, so AGP is the best
choice.

Tom

 

[William]

My PC have an Nvidia Geforce FX5200 PCI card with 128 megabytes of RAM
and aero glass works fine on it.

William

 

[Guest]

I picked up the nVidia 6600 AGP board and it is working fine. Had a few
system freeze's at first but once I removed the drivers and installed the
nVidia Vista beta drivers it is working fine. I have Aero glass! Plus of
course the system runs faster because of the 256 meg on the graphics card.

By the way, the Windows XP side of the dual boot system works better and
faster as well. I can't wait to re-load the Sims II and see the improvement.

Thank you all for your help and education.

Mark