AGP and PCI
Hey,
Why is it that i can only use AGP graphics cards? is there a way i could use PCI graphics cards? here is my system specification: • 3.4GHz CPU
• 2GB of RAM
• Intel Pentium 4 Processor
• I currently have RADEON ALL-IN-WONDER x800 series but getting a new graphics card soon.
• Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T
Give me your information if you could, thanks.
Why is it that i can only use AGP graphics cards? is there a way i could use PCI graphics cards? here is my system specification: • 3.4GHz CPU
• 2GB of RAM
• Intel Pentium 4 Processor
• I currently have RADEON ALL-IN-WONDER x800 series but getting a new graphics card soon.
• Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T
Give me your information if you could, thanks.
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Now, you cannot use a PCI-E video card in your AGP board. Your present motherboard doesn't have any PCI-E card slots, so you can't just shove a PCI-E video card into an AGP slot. The PCI-E video cards are totally incompatible with AGP slots.
Thanks.
Can you give us more specifics on the hardware you presently have in your computer. Such as computer manufacturer (if a prebuilt model), motherboard model, processor speed, and memory type and size. With this information we can give you a better opinion as to whether it is better to buy a new AGP video card or just bite the bullet and recommend you to buy or build a new system instead. I wouldn't want to see you buy a $200 video card to put into some old system that has a 1.8 P4 processor in it as you wouldn't see much gain in gaming prowness because the system would be bottlenecked in performance due to the old processor. And with AGP video cards on the way out, it's hard to recommend a high dollar video card to a system that is an antique in computer components.
EDIT: I see that you have your processor speed and ram listed in your first post. If you are looking for an upgrade over what you presently are using for a vid card, either a card using the ATI X1600 or X1650 pro gpu or the Nvidia 7800GS gpu would give a decent performance boost and about as high a performance video card you will get for an AGP based video card. Of the 2, I would think the Nvidia 7800GS based cards would have the highest performance. If you want to go with a higher performance video card than that, I'm afraid that you will have to do some mass upgrading to your system. Modern Intel stuff is using DDR2 ram nowdays, so your present ram won't work in a new board generally. I think there are a couple of boards out there that use DDR and have both an AGP and PCI-E video card slots, but they are generally economy boards and are equipped with LGA775 sockets.
If you build a new system you will need to change almost everything, mobo, CPU, memory, and of course your video card.
Why do you need a new video card? What games do you play?
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