pc advice please

loganz702 · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:14

need some advice if possible
I have raised a topic up before and didnt understand. whats the diffrence between agp and pci. im picking up my mates old pentium 4 3.4ghz 2gig ram fx5500 gc..
if its a agp whats the best graphics card i can get.
or vice versa? PCI ??
WHAT IS MY BEST OPTION WITH GRAPHICS CARDS??

KFA2 NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT PCI-E Graphics Card - 1GB
I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS ONE ^^^^^^^^

Good idear?
thanks for looking!

RJC · 16 Feb 2011 at 21:00

Looking around I think it may be AGP, Download GPU-Z & CPU-Z these should hopefully show the details.

At the moment your best GPU if you are AGP would be look at something second hand like a ATI 19XX range which I believe were made in AGP versions.

loganz702 · 16 Feb 2011 at 21:02

my mate told me late tonight that my motherboard will take agp OR pci can this be ill try and get the motherboard details in a min thanks

RJC · 16 Feb 2011 at 21:06

Cheers, Yes, some manufacturers like Asrock made some boards which can take PCI-E or AGP.

loganz702 · 17 Feb 2011 at 00:59

urm its a p4 motherboard as its only tempory.
gigabyte ga-85q800 ULTRA ,
pentium 4 3.4Ghz 1TB
Does this take DDR? i prosume?

J-FRO · 17 Feb 2011 at 09:44

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=56&subid=1842

pcAnywhere · 17 Feb 2011 at 09:59

loganz702 said:
my mate told me late tonight that my motherboard will take agp OR pci can this be ill try and get the motherboard details in a min thanks

Watch out. There are several different slots on a mobo.

PCI-Express (x16, x4, x1 versions): new graphic cards
PCI : Standard interface for non graphic cards
AGP : Old graphic cards

My guess would be that your mobo takes AGP graphic cards and PCI cards (not PCI-Express graphic cards)