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Buying new graphics card.
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?
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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.
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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?
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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?