PNY Quadro pci-e x1

[mousiness]

Well i was sifting through newegg as usual when i came across this interesting video card...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133164

Although it is a workstation card would it be better at graphics than an fx5500oc by BFG or would the BFG produce better quality graphics for gaming? Hope yall can answer my question. On my IBM MoBo I only have one pci slot and a pci-e x1 slot so im coming down to these cards and i need to know which one has better performance for gaming.

[Kougar]

Even though it is only a x1 PCI-E card, it would still run faster than any graphics card you would use over the PCI bus.

However, PCI-E x1 only achieves 500MB/s duplex speeds. This card is rated for ~250MB/s duplex. Considering that PCI-E x16 allows for a maximum of 8GB/s duplex speed, this graphics card is definitely not geared for gaming. This card should produce better graphics quality, but gaming was never on it's design specs and the x1 speed will bottleneck during games.

For the price of this single card, why not just replace your motherboard for less than $100, and plug your x700 into that? You can get a much better performing graphics card for the left over $300 that you would have spent on this card.

Think of it this way... what can $400 get you? A new $100 motherboard with PCI-E 16x and a $300 graphics card.

Or you could even get a full 512mb x1900 XT graphics card for $404.

[mousiness]

sweet... but this MoBo is the IBM one that ive been posting about until this card came up, if i replaced this board it wouldnt matter because it is the s51 board and it is custom made for IBM so any other board other than IBM boards wouldnt fit, the i/os are on a riser card, ill take a picture and post it, but im not too sure on how to that, maybe that would help?

[werty316]

$399 for that card? are you crazy mousiness? Quadros weren't meant to be used for gaming. Don't even think about buying it. What I would do is save up for a new rig. Trying to get a small performance boost by buying hardware that is a bit faster than what you have adds up and is a waste of $.

[mousiness]

hehe.. lol, just wondering about the performance... plus my dad would never spend that much money on a video card of that caliber, he said the same thing as you guys... hehe