Any PCI GPUs Worth Mining On? (not PCI-e or PCI Express)

[l008com]

So I have this old Dell that was destined for the recycler. I'm a Mac guy you see. The only Macs with PCI slots are super expensive Mac Pros. Not the best machine for a miner, they're just so expensive. Meanwhile I'm staring at this crappy Dell every day in my junk pile. So I yanked it out and checked into it. It's a 2.8 GHz P4 with three PCI slots. Regular PCI, not PCIe or express. The machine was obviously free. It won't cost much to scrounge up an old hard drive and some RAM for it. And maybe I can get video cards on the cheap. But are there any modernish cards made on PCI? For gaming, PCI is probably a huge bottleneck, so it probably doesn't make a lot of sense making powerful PCI graphics cards. But as an OpenCL station, it might not be so terrible. The fastest card I've been able to find after a quick search, it an ATi 5450. They don't have all that great of a keyrate. Any other options? Or is this idea going nowhere fast?

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[Malawi]

It's hard to say that it's not possible, but don't think you will have much luck.

There may be some newer versions of older architecture that uses PCI here and there, but it's many years since you would find a higher-end GPU made for PCI. Older machines with high end cards would use AGP.

I think your best bet would be to buy a used MB with RAM/CPU or a complete machine that is a few years old, that contain a somewhat decent GPU.
If you buy a machine that someone have lying around because they got a new one, you might get a very nice price.

[DrG]

PCI cards not really.

You can buy a PCI to PCIe adapter and mine (I think a few others confirmed this to work) but the adapter costs $60 or so, might as well buy a new board.

[eroxors]

PCI cards not really.

You can buy a PCI to PCIe adapter and mine (I think a few others confirmed this to work) but the adapter costs $60 or so, might as well buy a new board.

It's $27 on fleabay.

[pajak666]

I would just give it a try with normal 1x riser, I would try to stick it into pcie 1x if your mb has any.
That would cost you sth like few bucks to try if it works.
Maybe you will need to unlock your mb bios or sth.
Be so kind and post results.

[Malawi]

I would just give it a try with normal 1x riser, I would try to stick it into pcie 1x if your mb has any.
That would cost you sth like few bucks to try if it works.
Maybe you will need to unlock your mb bios or sth.
Be so kind and post results.

They are different form-factors. PCI has bigger connectors and larger distance apart than the PCIE ones.

There are converter boards/risers (PCI->PCIE), but it's a speciality item and quite pricy. -It would likely be cheaper to get another MB.

[Buffer Overflow]

PCI is a parallel interface, PCI-e is serial. Quite different.