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Computer question
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:23 pm
by magicmike
I bought a new video card to take advantage of my 2 monitors. I got one with dual vga outs. Anyway my question is this. I bought a cpi card not realizing that the card I had in there was an AGP. I now have an open AGPO slot. What is the AGP slot? Is it a "faster" route bus or something like that? Should I return the CPI card and get the same thing but AGP?
Thanks in advance,
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:05 pm
by THAWA
Well, that depends. If the PCI card you bought was a PCI Express I'd keep it, but if it's just regular PCI yeah it'll not perform as well as an AGP card. I forget a lot of this stuff, but AGP is like a direct interface for vid cards or something. I'm sure someone else can give a better explanation.
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:55 pm
by Tleg93
What will you be doing with the computer?
What is the bit resolution of the card you bought?
How many PCI slots do you have?
If you'll be doing gaming it would be best to use the AGP slot unless you have what THAWA spoke of. I don't know much about PCI express. What kind of card is it?
I think that, generally speaking, you want to use AGP since it's a dedicated graphics port not to mention that you'd be using up a PCI slot. AGP stands for Accelerated Graphics Port so it has memory resources that a regular PCI slot doesn't.
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:56 am
by AWD_addict
Yeah, what they said.
I think PCI < AGP < PCI Express
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:58 pm
by Tleg93
I looked up some info on PCI express and it seems that if you do have a motherboard capable of PCI express then you won't even have an AGP slot on your motherboard. The PCI express has a lower pin count than both AGP and PCI so it's doubtful that the connector would be the same. I've never acutally seen one yet though.
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardw ... presstech/
one of many articles.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 3:04 am
by magicmike
hum, I'm not gaming or anything like that. I just wanted to connect mt other monitor that dell shipped me by accident when I got the pc. I just got a PNY 128mb DDR. Seems to be working fine, but I was wondering if I should replace it with the agp while I still had the chance.
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:42 pm
by subawhatsubawho
AGP is better than PCI. AGP is dedicated for graphics while PCI is like USB...it can be used for many things.
I would get the DVI AGP card if using the flat panel monitors. If using VGA I would get the DVI AGP card with the Dual VGA splitter.
These are all Dell parts.
Hope this helps.
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:05 am
by magicmike
yeah I need to return this thing because ever since I intalled it my computer is much slower/sluggish. Thanks