Which PCI Graphics Card?

[Rave]

According to the Inquirer, the best selling add-in video card last year was a PCI FX5200, and PCI cards formed a large part of the top ten selling cards (I forget the exact stats, but you can look them up on the Inq if you're interested). That's probably just for retail sales of boxed cards rather than total sales to system builders etc, but there clearly is a big market for PCI cards still. However, the vast majority of people wanting an add-in PCI card are going to want a £50-80 one rather than something of 6600GT/X700Pro level, which is why I guess there are no PCI cards featuring higher end GPUs.

There's no technical reason why it wouldn't work, as far as I can tell those boards based on 915 chipsets which have a sort of 'quasi-AGP' slot as well are just running an AGP card off the PCI bus. You lose 10-20% performance over running at AGP8x as I remember.

[Agent]

the EULA on OEM windows states that this is the case anyway, so it shouldn't make any difference whether it physically is or not

ack, forgot it would be OEM. Silly me

[oralpain]

If you know what you are doing, you can get a molex pin remover tool, and just move around all the wires on the dell PSU connectors to fit a standard motherboard. However since most dell PSUs aren't very good and a superior ATX psu isn't very expensive, it's probably too mcuh of a hassle.

Technically, isn't an OEM copy of windows connected to any of the hard ware originall purchaed with it?

I bought my OEM windows 2000 with a case fan, and my OEM windows XP with a mouse.