I need a second video card, to help run a 3-monitor setup. I'm also running Windows 7, so whatever I get needs to be able to run Aero. And it needs to be PCI (not PCIe). Anybody got one to spare?

I have a 128 MB PCI Radeon out in the garage. Let me go check and make sure it's still there. If it is I will post up the series number and such and you can do a little searching and see if it will work for what you want to do.

I may have a GeForce MX420 64mb PCI card laying around somewhere. Its a PNY card IIRC, and if I can find it you are welcome to it for shipping costs

I'll dig through my boxes and see what I come up with

It's a Visiontek Radeon 9200 SE 128 MB PCI vid card. I still have the driver disk for it aswell. Like Xerces said, your welcome to it for cost of shipping if it will do what you need.

Part number on the sticker on the back of the card is: 1024-HC25-E2-VT.

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quote Originally posted by Khw: It's a Visiontek Radeon 9200 SE 128 MB PCI vid card. I still have the driver disk for it aswell. Like Xerces said, your welcome to it for cost of shipping if it will do what you need. Part number on the sticker on the back of the card is: 1024-HC25-E2-VT.

Heh, I can't compete with that My MX420 pales in comparison to your Radeon

Either way though, If i can find it and you want it Blacktree, let me know

quote Originally posted by Xerces_Blackthorne: Heh, I can't compete with that My MX420 pales in comparison to your Radeon Either way though, If i can find it and you want it Blacktree, let me know

Back in the day when I had the 1.2 Ghz Celeron computer that was in playing Everquest with it I absolutely loved it! The difference between the built in 32 mb video and that card was phenominal. I think that's the only reason I've held on to it for so many years.

quote Originally posted by Khw: Back in the day when I had the 1.2 Ghz Celeron computer that was in playing Everquest with it I absolutely loved it! The difference between the built in 32 mb video and that card was phenominal. I think that's the only reason I've held on to it for so many years.

That's the same reason I have the MX420. Beat using the shared video on my Asus A7N8X-VM board That was back in my Find A Drug crunching/gaming days Right around the time the first Halo came out

The biggest problem you're going to find is locating a PCI card that actually supports Aero.. I'm not aware of any myself to be honest.

Unfortunately, the Radeon 9200 and Geforce MX420 are both too old to work with Win7 x64... no driver support.

Looks like I'll need a video card rated for DX9 or better.

I appreciate the offers, though.

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quote Originally posted by Blacktree: Unfortunately, the Radeon 9200 and Geforce MX420 are both too old to work with Win7 x64... no driver support. Looks like I'll need a video card rated for DX9 or better. I appreciate the offers, though.

D'oh .

quote Originally posted by Blacktree: Unfortunately, the Radeon 9200 and Geforce MX420 are both too old to work with Win7 x64... no driver support. Looks like I'll need a video card rated for DX9 or better. I appreciate the offers, though.

So I guess this means my spare AGP card is out as well??

Will an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256M work? I have one laying around you can have. I just checked, it's an AGP also. Are you sure that isn't what you need?

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The Radeon 9800 Pro should work, assuming it's PCI (not PCIe). The PCIe slot in my computer is already occupied. And it doesn't have an AGP slot.

How bout a GForce 5200 (Think its 128, but its been a while)? Its PCI, makes a little fan noise sometimes but not often (I've changed out the fan once). Don't have the Driver disc anymore, but they're available on NVidia's website anyway. I'd be happy to send it your way for shipping costs. Paying it Forward since DeV8er hooked me up on that GeForce 210 a few weeks ago...

According to information I've read so far, it looks like you need at least a Geforce 6000 series or Radeon X1000 series video card to handle the Windows 7 eye candy.

I've posted on a couple computer-related forums, and am not getting much luck there, either. I may have to bite the bullet and buy a new one.

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