- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Hello,
As some of you may have heard from my past posts, I have been a PCI user for the past two years. For both of those periods of 365 days, I was feeling as if I had a mixed bag for a PC: I had a gig of RAM, a P4 processor, and a great screen, but my vid card was always substandard.
Anyway, yesterday I received an ATI Radeon X1300 in the mail. Unfortunately it was a PCI Express card. I was pretty angry. So, I went in to try to desperately find a slot in my computer, willing it to be there against logic.
And there it was.
On the third slot down, I noticed a slot different than the others. My heart raced, and I pushed my X1300 gently in. It fit.
So it turns out that for two years, I've been under the impression that I'm stuck with PCI when all along a PCI Express slot was sitting there.
And as if the gods wanted to complete the awesomeness, the X1300 has been running BF2142 on low - med settings really well (with one setting - textures - on high) and has played my other games like Halo and CoD2 with equally high performance.
So you can imagine how happy I am right now. :)