I was browsing around and I found a Geforce 9400. It was a cheap card with no fan but... In PCI? Is there two types of PCI or is this the same PCI that's been around forever? I don't see how anyone could benefit from a card that new on a PCI slot. Also there is no additional power needed. It's all off the slot. How is this possible? And I know it wasn't PCI Express, it was under the list of PCI cards on CompUSA.

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You mean this one? http://www.compusa.com/applications... Lotta money. That pci card is probably worth more than the system it's plugging in to. Skip

I just didn't see how it would work. Like, a 5200 PCI yeah but a 9400? Isn't the bandwidth of PCI like, 1gb/s ? So, buying a card like that would be pointless. But, if there are new motherboards with no AGP or PCI E then yeah, I guess it makes sense.

"Isn't the bandwidth of PCI like, 1gb/s ?" Only if you mean Giga-bits per second. It works out to 133MB/s (1.06Gb/s). I see Skip posted a link to a card. I was gonna say that Sparkle seems to be going for a nitch in the market...supplying more modern GPU's for the outdated PCI & AGP formats. I think they recently released a Radeon HD4650 AGP. It's not as fast as the HD3850, but it supports DX10.

The HD 3850 Supports Directx 10.1. ATI has supported 10 since HD 2350. The newest was the 3870. The thing about the Sparkle card is no fan, and there's no other power source. How could it run efficiently? The 5 series required one extra connection and the 6800 Ultra required two.

There *may* be such a thing, but I've never seen a standard PCI card that requires an aux power plug-in. And I stand corrected on the DX10 comment....I don't know what I was thinking.