Looking for a PCI (or PCI-E x1) GPU to play COD4

[kalniel]

Product Googling "Radeon PCIe x1" turns up nothing, unfortunately. NVidia definitely have the win in the reduced-bandwidth graphics card stakes...

Apart from the Radeon X1550 you mean?

[scaryjim]

I noticed that after I posted - it comes up on a web google of "Radeon PCIe x1", but not on a product google. Are we really going to compare an X1550 with a 9500GT? Besides, Nvidia partners have released PCIe x1 cards from the 3 major families prior to the current one - ATi have managed only the earliest of those?

Me, I'm waiting for the AGP 4670 to hit retail - if the price is anywhere near reasonable I might be upgrading rather than building...

[mycarsavw]

Top man, thanks - I've just bought one of those, ~£5 can't be bad - I already have my spare 500w PSU and 7600GT, so once the board arrives, we'll see how it goes.

Did this ^ and it works fine (running at 1152 x 864 on a mixture of max/medium settings) - thanks to DanceswithUnix and Scan.

i doubt you will be able to secure the card using the bracket, may as well return cod4 until he is prepared to buy a new pc

You're right, it's currently secured with a thin block of wood on the case floor propping the card up - it's not pretty, but it does the job.

Thanks for the help once again - problem solved