Katie, just in case you're still in the dark over your choice of graphic (or video) cards for your husband's machine, PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) graphics cards are now pretty much superseded.  

Their successor is the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) card, which performs much better.

PCI cards are still available, mostly for use in older machines that lack AGP slots, but they're generally fairly slow and aren't capable of running modern games, which need lots of processing power.

State-of-the-art AGP cards can cost more than a lot of computers, but if you shop around and talk to a few salespeople, I think you'll find a card that performs pretty well without breaking the bank.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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>Hi I want to buy my husband a video card for his computer.  He needs a new
>one in order to play Nascar Thunder.   He has a IBM Netvista 2276/  The
>trouble is I dont know if he has a pgi slot available I know that he has a
>pci slot that is available.  I also know that somewhere I seen in the
>system something about 2x  Can you please help me in trying to figure out
>how to find out what kind of new video card to get.  Thanks Katie

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