December 20, 20178 yr The link works for me.......Maybe because of he location? I'm in the US I've found this on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-R92P-29-8330-Ver-1-RADEON-9200-256MB-PCI-VIDEO-Graphics-CARD-DVI-S-VIDEO-VGA/332493409857?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
December 20, 20178 yr ah, so you mean pci instead of pcie slot. Good idea. Edited December 20, 20178 yr by nuhll
December 22, 20178 yr I found a cheap PCI video card on eBay ($8).....ATI Radeon 9200 256MB Right now, I have a PCI gigabit ethernet card (something I purchased a long time ago when the onboard nic died) Is it going to be a bottle neck ? Should I replace it by a PCI-e ethernet board? If yes, I don't want to pay too much (I know everyone is talking about Intel NIC, but they are expensive) Which board/chip would be a decent choice, for cheap?
December 22, 20178 yr The PCI Ethernet card could be a slight bottleneck at maximum loads, but personally I’d give it a try. It’s silly to spend money on that old system trying to eeek every ounce of performance out of it. PCI maxes at 133 MB/s and that’s shared. That’s enough to support 1 Gbps most of the time, if the video card isn’t active. A PCIe x1 Ethernet card won’t be bus bandwidth limited at 1 Gbps and you *might* notice when copying large video files across the network to your server - but this is 2018 not 2008. I’d spend the absolute minimum to get one of these old boxes running reasonably well (and I suspect it would run reasonably well with the PCI NIC) and then start setting aside your money for a new, modern system. If you notice a big hit from the PCI Ethernet card, then see if you can find a PCIe x1 for cheap.
December 22, 20178 yr 1 hour ago, tdallen said: The PCI Ethernet card could be a slight bottleneck at maximum loads, but personally I’d give it a try. It’s silly to spend money on that old system trying to eeek every ounce of performance out of it. PCI maxes at 133 MB/s and that’s shared. That’s enough to support 1 Gbps most of the time, if the video card isn’t active. A PCIe x1 Ethernet card won’t be bus bandwidth limited at 1 Gbps and you *might* notice when copying large video files across the network to your server - but this is 2018 not 2008. I’d spend the absolute minimum to get one of these old boxes running reasonably well (and I suspect it would run reasonably well with the PCI NIC) and then start setting aside your money for a new, modern system. If you notice a big hit from the PCI Ethernet card, then see if you can find a PCIe x1 for cheap. I know.....so far, I'm at $8 for this "old"rig for the video card. But I will go from a 415 passmark CPU to 1750, and from 2GB to 8GB But I agree, I'm not planning to put more $$ on this...If I were to want a better NIC card (PCIe), I will see if the IT guy from my company can get one for me ....for free !!!!
December 22, 20178 yr Well if there's a free option - since since your SATA card will be max of x8, you should have PCIe lanes to spare for an Ethernet card.
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