Best Value for Money PCI Card

[xzl.]

hey, iv'e had a good look around the internet for a suitable PCI card for my PC, note not PCI-E due to my tower being quite old :( but ive found this one, and i think 512mb should be enough for my needs, i mean right now, my tower doesnt even have a graphics card, just stock model
so anyway, if anyone can find one thats better value for money or something like that i would be greatly appreciative : http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/9556293/PNY-Geforce-8400GS-512MB-PCI-Graphics-Card/Product.html
+rep for useful help thanks again :)

[Recursion]

The Nvidia 8400GS is a pretty crappy card... and fairly old and you should ignore the 512MB bit for now.

Are you sure your PC doesn't have PCI-E?

[xzl.]

Ah sorry, fairly new to graphics cards, only time ive decided to run a decent graphics card on my pc, and yes im pretty sure, im running a Dell Optiplex 210L and its very old :L

[Colin-Roberts]

any idea what motherboard it has in it?

[The Professor]

CPU-Z should tell you if you don't know.

[xzl.]

thanks for the CPU-Z saved me a lot of time, heres everything you should need to know :)
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/xzibitluke/2.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/xzibitluke/1.jpg

[W00TZEH]

ye.... you need a new pc altogether.

[xzl.]

haha, good point but unfortunately my bank balance isnt on my side right now :(

[Colin-Roberts]

i'm going have to agree, even a cheap mobo, cpu and ram would be a good start while keeping the old harddrive, cd drive ect.

[xzl.]

hmm well okay, thanks for everyones help :) looks like its back to the drawing board lol, will 2GB ram be sufficient do you think?

[Colin-Roberts]

I run 1.5 gbs of ram and it handles pretty much everything i need, it depends on what you do, i can video edit, play older games ect without issue. so 2 gb should be fine for most tasks