Need some advice on video cards...

[skid]

I just bought a new HP PC with a Duron 900, 40 GB, 128MB.
Problem is its only got an 8MB S3 Prosavage video card. To make things worse that slow card is onboard. And then to top it all off there is no AGP slot! What's a guy to do? I really don't want to buy a new motherboard just so I can have an AGP Slot.
Is there somekind of PCI adapter or something that lets you put a AGP video card into a PCI slot? Or are there PCI graphics boards out there that would be good enough? The best I've found is ATI's RADEON 32MB SDRAM Version. Anybody got any ideas or know of a faster PCI video card?

Thanks

[TranceBear]

Ok, I will be the bad guy and say that this system will not be that upgradable. There is no AGP adapter. One thing you can upgrade is the video card. I think there are very few PCI cards out there still. The one you mentioned seems like a good choice. Can you get it still? You are stuck with that M/B unfortunely. Just use this system until you can save enough for a new M/B-CPU combo and then take the stuff you can swap off the HP.

[Blue Jester_2112]

Well, I'm not sure, but I think there might have been a PCI version of the Voodoo 5 5500.

Also, I know Creative made a PCI GF2 MX with 32 megs of DDR. Check out www.shentech.com I just installed one my aunt bought from there in my cousins e machine. It works ok, can't tell you how good though, he doesn't have the latest drivers yet.

There really isn't much out there for PCI unfortunately (nothing that performs as well as their agp counterparts anyway.) Go browse pricewatch, you might dig up something.

Good luck and I hope you find something.

[oc jason]

i would get eh GeForce 2 MX, PCi or the RADEON SHOLD BE GOOD, ALSO THE VOODOO 5500 IS A GOOD CARD