Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 v PCI FX5700

Problem: motherboard with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and no PCIe
x16 slot.

Goal: go from appalling to modest 3D performance. Would a PCI FX5700 or
similar be worth bothering with? I know the 950 suffers badly even next to
the 6200TC but I haven't found any sort of benchmark for the PCI FX5700 that
would let me compare them.

Does it have an AGP slot?
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Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+

"DRS" wrote in message
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Problem: motherboard with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and no PCIe x16 slot.

Goal: go from appalling to modest 3D performance. Would a PCI FX5700 or similar be worth
bothering with? I know the 950 suffers badly even next to the 6200TC but I haven't found any sort
of benchmark for the PCI FX5700 that would let me compare them.

"David Vair" wrote in message

"DRS" wrote in message
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Problem: motherboard with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and
no PCIe x16 slot. Goal: go from appalling to modest 3D performance.
Would a PCI
FX5700 or similar be worth bothering with? I know the 950 suffers
badly even next to the 6200TC but I haven't found any sort of
benchmark for the PCI FX5700 that would let me compare them.

Does it have an AGP slot?

No.

'DRS' wrote:
| Problem: motherboard with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and no PCIe
| x16 slot.
|
| Goal: go from appalling to modest 3D performance. Would a PCI FX5700 or
| similar be worth bothering with? I know the 950 suffers badly even next
to
| the 6200TC but I haven't found any sort of benchmark for the PCI FX5700
that
| would let me compare them.
_____

I wouldn't consider upgrading to a PCI display adapter.
What is the rest of your system like?
Depending, probably the best thing to do is save your money toward upgrading
at least the motherboard, if not the CPU and memory also.
Increasing the amount of memory may also help, depending.

Phil Weldon

"DRS" wrote in message
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| Problem: motherboard with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and no PCIe
| x16 slot.
|
| Goal: go from appalling to modest 3D performance. Would a PCI FX5700 or
| similar be worth bothering with? I know the 950 suffers badly even next
to
| the 6200TC but I haven't found any sort of benchmark for the PCI FX5700
that
| would let me compare them.
|
|

"Phil Weldon" wrote in message
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'DRS' wrote:
Problem: motherboard with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and
no PCIe x16 slot.

Goal: go from appalling to modest 3D performance. Would a PCI
FX5700 or similar be worth bothering with? I know the 950 suffers
badly even next to the 6200TC but I haven't found any sort of
benchmark for the PCI FX5700 that would let me compare them.
_____

I wouldn't consider upgrading to a PCI display adapter.
What is the rest of your system like?
Depending, probably the best thing to do is save your money toward
upgrading at least the motherboard, if not the CPU and memory also.
Increasing the amount of memory may also help, depending.

Heheh. My system has a 7800GT. The one question I'm asking for a third
party is whether a PCI FX5700 or similar would be any sort of improvement at
all.

* DRS:

Problem: motherboard with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and no PCIe
x16 slot.

ok.

Goal: go from appalling to modest 3D performance. Would a PCI FX5700 or
similar be worth bothering with?

Depends. The GMA950 is around as fast as a Radeon 9200 so a GeforceFX
5700 would indeed be a nice improvement. But if your application/games
use lots of textures the PCI bus gets a severe bottleneck...

Benjamin