Albatron releases nVidia 8 series PCI cards

drew and not u · July 23rd, 2008

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Here we are, in 2008, heading for the PCI Express 3.0 standard and Albatron Technology comes along and claims that millions of integrated motherboards without AGP or PCI Express slots are still produced. OK, you might find a few AGP cards these days, but cards for the old PCI slot? Are there millions of PC owners that haven’t made the jump for PCI-e yet? I find that quite hard to believe. Anyway, Albatron considered that it’s unacceptable to forget about that many potential buyers of discrete graphics cards, so they went ahead and released an array of GeForce 8 series cards designed for the old PCI slot.

PCI Lives!

**simple_inhibition** · July 23rd, 2008

thats like setting a 350 smallblock on an Amish buggy. there hasnt been a new pci card since the geforce 6200 of 2005-ish. and people wonder why we havent completely rid ourselves of pci...its because companies keep releasing shit for it. although it would be kinda interesting to see my grandma's old AMD K6-II 500mhz try to play HD content with one of these cards

way to go albatron.......

**gvblake22** · July 23rd, 2008

I can see these being popular with miniITX board owners who only have a single PCI slot but don't want to rely on the poor performance of an onboard GPU solution.

screwballl · July 23rd, 2008

may have to pick one up for the MIL's computer... she has a 2 year old lower end Dell that has only PCI slots... no AGP, no PCIe

since I have Vista on there, a batter video card should help out quite a bit.

Badluck Inc · July 23rd, 2008

Might have to grab one of those for my son's old HP . He has a 6200 in there at the moment.

**Hitman** · July 23rd, 2008

Actually there is a market for PCI cards. Like mentioned above propitiatory computers with onboard video that needs an upgrade. Another more obvious use (to me anyways) is multiple displays. Even with two PCI-E ports being common on many motherboards, this still only limits you to 4 displays. With PCI video cards you can expand this to as many PCI slots that you have open.

Jokerswild · July 23rd, 2008

I use to have a pci video card on hand to use if there was a possible problem with the AGP slot.

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simple_inhibition socket 939 junkie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: the lovely metropolis of cortland ohio Posts: 1,622 Blog Entries: 1	thats like setting a 350 smallblock on an Amish buggy. there hasnt been a new pci card since the geforce 6200 of 2005-ish. and people wonder why we havent completely rid ourselves of pci...its because companies keep releasing shit for it. although it would be kinda interesting to see my grandma's old AMD K6-II 500mhz try to play HD content with one of these cards way to go albatron....... Intel Q9650 Gigabyte EP45-UD3P 2x2048MB G-Skill DDR2 Visiontek HD4870 512mb Seagate 7200.11 500GB SATA Razer Barracuda AC1 Silverstone DA750 Pioneer 16x dvd burner Lian-Li G70WB Asus VK222 22" LCD Thermochill PA120.3 Swiftech MCP655 Switech Storm Rev2 7/16" ID Tubing Last edited by gvblake22; July 23rd, 2008 at 06:11. Reason: consecutive posts merged

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gvblake22 Modder-ator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tempe Desert Posts: 7,158 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Albatron releases nVidia 8 series PCI cards I can see these being popular with miniITX board owners who only have a single PCI slot but don't want to rely on the poor performance of an onboard GPU solution.

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screwballl Colonel Calamity Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sandy South Posts: 6,275 Blog Entries: 6	Re: Albatron releases nVidia 8 series PCI cards may have to pick one up for the MIL's computer... she has a 2 year old lower end Dell that has only PCI slots... no AGP, no PCIe since I have Vista on there, a batter video card should help out quite a bit.

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Hitman Functional Alcoholic Join Date: May 2006 Location: 14S E:561116 N:3830189 Posts: 5,011 Blog Entries: 2	Re: Albatron releases nVidia 8 series PCI cards Actually there is a market for PCI cards. Like mentioned above propitiatory computers with onboard video that needs an upgrade. Another more obvious use (to me anyways) is multiple displays. Even with two PCI-E ports being common on many motherboards, this still only limits you to 4 displays. With PCI video cards you can expand this to as many PCI slots that you have open.

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