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| Snaffle J. Bean:
--- Quote from: orange wolf on June 24, 2010, 03:16:02 PM ---I don't understand what PCI is, will I have to know before I buy this? --- End quote --- Pretty much, yeah. PCI and PCI-E are plugs on motherboards for graphics cards and such. If your motherboard doesn't have PCI or PCI-E, but only AGP, you're going to have to get an older card. |
| orange wolf:
--- Quote from: Snaffle J. Bean on June 24, 2010, 03:18:49 PM ---Pretty much, yeah. PCI and PCI-E are plugs on motherboards for graphics cards and such. If your motherboard doesn't have PCI or PCI-E, but only AGP, you're going to have to get an older card. --- End quote --- This computer had to have been made after 2005, so I'm pretty sure I don't have AGP, but is PCI the same installation as PCI express? |
| Snaffle J. Bean:
--- Quote from: orange wolf on June 24, 2010, 03:21:46 PM ---This computer had to have been made after 2005, so I'm pretty sure I don't have AGP, but is PCI the same installation as PCI express? --- End quote --- A PCI-E card will work in a PCI slot, but won't perform as good as if it were in a PCI-E slot. It would be best just to open your computer up and look at the slots. Possibly take a picture and post it here. |
| orange wolf:
I don't have a camera but it looks like this: |
| Snaffle J. Bean:
Okay, it looks like you have one PCI-E and one PCI. But one of them looks backwards. My PC has one that's backwards, too. Does your PC happen to be made by HP? |
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