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Originally Posted by alpha phi
OK I was at Best Buy today
looking at video cards
all the PCI cards said they
required a PCI-2 slot...... 
does that mean PCI express?
will it work in a PCI slot?
The card I was after was a standard PCI ATI card
they had advertised for $79...sold out... 
What would be a good card for me?
I don't have a AGP slot or PCI express
Just Plain old PCI
And $115 in Best buy gift cards |
PCI 2 is just tech-term for the version of PCI slot that is required on the motherboard in order for the video card to work. Kind of like when patches are released for video games: v1.0, v1.2, v1.3, v3, etc.....For the dollar range you're looking at, you shouldn't run into any problems with any of those cards. PCI 2 does NOT mean PCI Express. It just means regular PCI.
For instance, regular PCI slots started out somewhere around, let's say, 1.0. Now, they're up to, let's say, 3.0. The PCI slot is still just a PCI slot, it's just that the technology has improved from 1.0 to 3.0.
PCI-Express is a whole different animal.