Are PCI video cards out of date?

My computer doesn't have a PCIe so I'm stuck using a PCI video card. Is it still possible to get a PCI video card that will support games nicely or is there a PCIe to PCI video card adapter that would work?|||The guy who thinks PCI graphics cards isn't outdated knows nothing.



PCI has been outdated for the past 7 years.



PCI is extremely slow-- 33mHz transfer speed, 133MB/sec bandwidth. This is a horrible bottleneck-- The old PCI bus simply cannot keep a graphics processor fed with data fast enough, which means ALL PCI video cards are slow as molasses. It is Completely unacceptable for today's applications.



In contrast, the current graphics card standard, PCIExpress 16x, starts at a bandwidth of 4096MB/sec for v1.0 spec. That's 32 times faster than old PCI.



Any PCI graphics card is a complete, utter waste of money. The only reason why card makers keep making them is because there are plenty of suckers out there who don't know any better.



Save your money for a new computer if all you have are old PCI slots.|||No, they are not out of date. They are not as common or as fast as they PCIe or PCIe x16. You can check the site listed below for 67 PCI cards from various manufactures. I am sure that if you look on the internet you can find even more. Just because a brick and mortar store does not carry it, does not mean that it is not available. Stores can not carry every option of every item, they do not have the room.|||pci's are outdated. its hard to find them in normal stores and i dont think video card companies support it anymore just like agp. an adapter would really kill your performance value. pcie is i think 16x faster. adapter would block the performance substancially. and also you wouldn't be able to play very recent games. maybe games from about 2 years ago would do|||What computer do you have? If it's only got PCI then it's very old and nothing new will run on it. It most likely has an AGP slot - I had a 500MB AGP card that just about managed Left for Dead. You had to wait a bit for the data to load onto the card but after that it was fine.|||PCI graphics are extremely dated, amigo. They were killed off by AGP graphics card at the turn of the century. There is no PCI graphics card today that will offer any sort of acceptable performance for any sort of game created in the last 8 to 10 years.|||yes Ofourse



PIC - Express is the latest



Even that will go out of date soon.



Intel's new Integrated Processor called Larabeee.



Check this link

http://infosyndrome.blogspot.com/2009/06…|||PCI cards are still sold but not very powerful and won't support most of the newer games out. PCI was outdated when AGP came out and AGP is even outdated now.|||Or you could get a better computer.