Hi im looking to upgrade my intel extreme graphics onboard card to a GEFORCE 4 FX5200 128MB PCI. I know its not great but i dont have an agp slot and cant afford to buy new mobo and also i dont have access to credit card so this was the best pci card i can find at retail stores.I'm just looking to play cs source at maybe 30 to 40 fps which im pretty sure ill get with this. But i just wanted to know if im making a big mistake or to go along with this.

You really don't have a whole heap more choice. You could buy an ATI Radeon 9200 pci, but I think the perform pretty much the same. I don't think it would be a big mistake buying one of those cards in your circumstances, neither card is expensive at all so it's not like you're going to loose out there and you will still see a vast improvement over what you already have.. Just stick to the 128mb version, the 256mb version is a gimmick. The FX5200 is far too slow to benefit from the extra memory and you won't see any difference, so it isn't worth spending extra on. AMD Athlon XP2200+ Aero7 lite 512mb Crucial pc2700 Abit NF7-s V2.0 80GB Seagate SATA 120GB Seagate SATA Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb Benq FP767-12 17" 12ms SB live 5.1 Digital

ok thanks

if you can offort it, you can buy PCI express video card, which a tiny bit better than the AGP card, almost the same, but at least PCI express is mmuch better than original PCI card. shut the f--- up

by the way, for CS source FX/TI card is enough. but the problem is your CPU. the main performance for CS:S is base on the CPU speed, video card is minor. this game CPU requires alot of works. better CPU you got better performance. even the most powerful 6800GT + AMD FX64 with 1GB DDR ram only got 60-80fps average, so i dont think you can get 30-40 ping even if you have the fx5200, especially with the celeron CPU, and also you need at least 512 MB ram. shut the f--- up

PCI-express is not the same as PCI, so he can't get a PCI-express card.