Cheapo Video Card available?

[Sir Savant]

Ok, so I am currently running this old-ass P3 for various things (not gaming, mostly work and PC Diagnostics). Because it is a P3, the machine is kinda old and busted, so I put some parts that gave it new life. Maxed out memory (386MB now), Dual DVD-Burners, Hauppauge TV-Tuner, SoundBlaster Card, Dual 250GB drives etc. So for now it works ok.

While it works great for it's purposes, I am looking into finding a cheapo Video Card cause it currently is sporting a lightning quick ATI Rage Pro AGP with an enormous amount of memory - 4mb. I basically am looking for anything that would not kill the PSU - which I should also replace cause it is a 200w running all of the above - but would able to speed up media center applications to an acceptable point.

Something in the range of free (anyone looking to throw something out?) or under 25 shipped. I am currently looking at ebay, but everytime I find something halfway decent I hear about horrible reviews from the year 2000. I know this isn't the best of tech, but it currently works and buying a new, err, "usable" video card for $25 would be much better than spending $300 on a rig (dangit, I blew out the last one I built ).

Suggestions?

[Eckostyle]

I guess a GeForce MX PCI card would do the trick.

[Veggita2099]

Might find a used geforce 3 or something like that on ebay.

[sixteen-bit]

I guess a GeForce MX PCI card would do the trick.

That, but AGP.
or:

• GeForce 2 (any) / GeForce 2MX / GeForce 4MX
  Radeon 8500
  GeForce 3 (any)
  Radeon 9200
  Radeon 9500 / 9600

There's gotta be at least one of those available on eBay for dirt cheap .

[bizzle]

I think you mean 384 MB.

[leileilol]

The Geforce2MX/4MX have good driver support, the rest of the geforce2 line doesn't ((

UGH STUPID NVIDIA CHEATING MONEY OUT POWER USERS OF THE GEFORCE2 GTS AND ULTRA

[APE]

Radeon 9600s are nice. Mine did 1942 and UT2k4 pretty well so long as you didn't try to max out 2k4.

[leileilol]

Well the CPU would bottleneck the 9600 horribly anyway

[Quzar]

basically any radeon branded card will be able to do it. I don't know about wherever you are, but back in miami, the CompUSAs and BestBuys all carry 20$ radeon cards. PCI, but with DX7 support, they should help quite a bit compared to a rage.

[sixteen-bit]

Well the CPU would bottleneck the 9600 horribly anyway

Well sure but if one can be sourced cheaply who cares? Not like it'll be used for gaming.

[Sir Savant]

I will try and find a CompUSA with a Radeon at that price, Quzar. I looked online and it said it was a no-go for my local one, but maybe there is...

Thanks for the advice. I will keep you posted on what I buy (which should be by Sunday), and how the whole thing turned out.

[ace]

Ok, so I am currently running this old-ass P3 for various things (not gaming, mostly work and PC Diagnostics). Because it is a P3, the machine is kinda old and busted, so I put some parts that gave it new life. Maxed out memory (386MB now), Dual DVD-Burners, Hauppauge TV-Tuner, SoundBlaster Card, Dual 250GB drives etc. So for now it works ok.

While it works great for it's purposes, I am looking into finding a cheapo Video Card cause it currently is sporting a lightning quick ATI Rage Pro AGP with an enormous amount of memory - 4mb. I basically am looking for anything that would not kill the PSU - which I should also replace cause it is a 200w running all of the above - but would able to speed up media center applications to an acceptable point.

Something in the range of free (anyone looking to throw something out?) or under 25 shipped. I am currently looking at ebay, but everytime I find something halfway decent I hear about horrible reviews from the year 2000. I know this isn't the best of tech, but it currently works and buying a new, err, "usable" video card for $25 would be much better than spending $300 on a rig (dangit, I blew out the last one I built ).

Suggestions?

I've got a Radeon 7000, a Geforce 2 MX and a Voodoo 3 you can have for free if you want. Just pick them up if you are still in the GTA. I can ship them too, but my paypal is currently not working.

edit: I thought this was Caboose for a second. It might not be worth it to ship...

[Sir Savant]

Ok, so I am currently running this old-ass P3 for various things (not gaming, mostly work and PC Diagnostics). Because it is a P3, the machine is kinda old and busted, so I put some parts that gave it new life. Maxed out memory (386MB now), Dual DVD-Burners, Hauppauge TV-Tuner, SoundBlaster Card, Dual 250GB drives etc. So for now it works ok.

While it works great for it's purposes, I am looking into finding a cheapo Video Card cause it currently is sporting a lightning quick ATI Rage Pro AGP with an enormous amount of memory - 4mb. I basically am looking for anything that would not kill the PSU - which I should also replace cause it is a 200w running all of the above - but would able to speed up media center applications to an acceptable point.

Something in the range of free (anyone looking to throw something out?) or under 25 shipped. I am currently looking at ebay, but everytime I find something halfway decent I hear about horrible reviews from the year 2000. I know this isn't the best of tech, but it currently works and buying a new, err, "usable" video card for $25 would be much better than spending $300 on a rig (dangit, I blew out the last one I built ).

Suggestions?

I've got a Radeon 7000, a Geforce 2 MX and a Voodoo 3 you can have for free if you want. Just pick them up if you are still in the GTA. I can ship them too, but my paypal is currently not working.

edit: I thought this was Caboose for a second. It might not be worth it to ship...

Awe. You got my hopes up and then shot them down.

[neoak]

edit: I thought this was Caboose for a second. It might not be worth it to ship...

Why don't you try Airmail? Its dirt cheap. All you need is a good packaging box.

[ace]

I'll take them into work (hopefully tomorrow) and get them weighed/priced and post the prices for different mailing options tomorrow.

[Sir Savant]

Price?