PCIe video card for Windows XP Pro gaming rig

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What would be a good video card, that is cheap, for use under XP with older games? I was going to use a Riva TNT2 with my Abit VP6 and its hardware, but since its for my brother and he needs it for school work, and my Abit VP6 is nearing the end of its life, I need to use my spare LGA775 board which doesn't have integrated graphics. I'll be running it with a Pentium E6500K+3-4GB RAM and a 400-450W PSU.

[Djole123]

Get a Radeon HD 5450. It has all kinds of different variants: PCI with 512MB of VRAM, PCI-e x1 with 1GB of VRAM and PCI-e x16 with 512MB or 1GB of VRAM.

 

And they are usually pretty cheap, so get it.

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1 minute ago, Djole123 said:

Get a Radeon HD 5450. It has all kinds of different variants: PCI with 512MB of VRAM, PCI-e x1 with 1GB of VRAM and PCI-e x16 with 512MB or 1GB of VRAM.

 

And they are usually pretty cheap, so get it.

So far these are the cheapest while having VGA, would these be OK as well?

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/GALAXY-GEFORCE-PCI-E-512MB-DDR2-64X-GRAPHICS-CARD-GF210-VGA-DVI-I-HDMI-/331822869765?hash=item4d422f2d05:g:Bn8AAOSwbwlXA06z

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/nVidia-WinFast-PX7600-GS-TD-256MB-DDR-PCI-e-x16-2xDVI-Graphics-Card-/271671088155?hash=item3f40dbd41b:g:9mYAAOSwKrxUaAXy

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Gigabyte-GeForce-8500GT-256MB-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-DVI-VGA-Passive-fanless-quite-/282002536255?hash=item41a8a9373f:g:RWAAAOSwd0BVwL7y

[Djole123]

7 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

So far these are the cheapest while having VGA, would these be OK as well?

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/GALAXY-GEFORCE-PCI-E-512MB-DDR2-64X-GRAPHICS-CARD-GF210-VGA-DVI-I-HDMI-/331822869765?hash=item4d422f2d05:g:Bn8AAOSwbwlXA06z

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/nVidia-WinFast-PX7600-GS-TD-256MB-DDR-PCI-e-x16-2xDVI-Graphics-Card-/271671088155?hash=item3f40dbd41b:g:9mYAAOSwKrxUaAXy

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Gigabyte-GeForce-8500GT-256MB-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-DVI-VGA-Passive-fanless-quite-/282002536255?hash=item41a8a9373f:g:RWAAAOSwd0BVwL7y

Yeah. The GeForce 210 is an OK card.

[agent_x007]

This is a "OK" GPU : LINK, GT210 is gloryfied VGA adapter.
Can U buy DVI to VGA adapter in local computer store ?

GTX 275 : LINK (if U have PSU with 12V that can drive it),
7600 GT : LINK, old but can do it's job if it's XP only.

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5 minutes ago, agent_x007 said:

This is a "OK" GPU : LINK, GT210 is gloryfied VGA adapter.
Can U buy DVI to VGA adapter in local computer store ?

GTX 275 : LINK (if U have PSU that can drive it),
7600 GT : LINK, old but can do it's job if it's XP only.

Since the motherboard has no iGPU, and any iGPU of the time was far worse than the video card, plus the fact that my brother is currently using a Pentium M770+Intel 915GML, its still an improvement.

[agent_x007]

True

[David_K]

Actually a GTX260 (or slower 9800/9600GT) can be great fit for a good Win XP setup games wise, or the more modern 5770/6770/6750/5750 (rebrand) that are also good if priced right (this were the first DX11 cards so if you would want to upgrade the os and run old DX11 you could do that too.

 

Personally i got a 5750 (outlet) new in the bag without the retail box for like 32 USD  (that is converted from NIS/ILS in my country for comparison ) and here finding cheap stuff is not easy. and that was 3 years ago. so I am sure you can find a decent used 5770 for a good price. this will run every XP era game without a problem with an ~80W use (if I remember correctly). 

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3 hours ago, David_K said:

Actually a GTX260 (or slower 9800/9600GT) can be great fit for a good Win XP setup games wise, or the more modern 5770/6770/6750/5750 (rebrand) that are also good if priced right (this were the first DX11 cards so if you would want to upgrade the os and run old DX11 you could do that too.

 

Personally i got a 5750 (outlet) new in the bag without the retail box for like 32 USD  (that is converted from NIS/ILS in my country for comparison ) and here finding cheap stuff is not easy. and that was 3 years ago. so I am sure you can find a decent used 5770 for a good price. this will run every XP era game without a problem with an ~80W use (if I remember correctly). 

I can't remember the desktop name of it, but my laptop has the first mobile DirectX 11 GPU, a MR HD5650, which is an underclocked MR HD5770 (fixed that by increasing the core clock by 100MHz) , which is an underclocked desktop GPU. I'll see if I can find it.