a quick question???

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what does it mean when a mobo can only Support PCI-E VGA Cards (AGP not supported).i know pci-express is what im using and i know the difference between agp and pci-e but what is a pci-e VGA card . is there a difference. so in other terms will this work. or will it be bottle necked by mobo

Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)
 
Those will work fine together.
Pci-e is an abbreviation of pci express, same thing. Does that answer your question?
Not really sure if thats what your asking...

Vga just means graphics card. A pci-e vga card is a pci express graphics card.
 
What it means there is that it only supports PCI-e video cards. It is using the term VGA where it means video or graphics. I presume it could also handle PCI video cards as well.
 
ok cheers guys just thought it was like an older version ov pci-e or somthing silly me lol anf thought i would not be able to get the full potential out of the graphics card.
 
Pci-e = pci express.
The one to be careful of is pci-x, which is an older version and a different physical socket.
 
PCI-X is not an older version of anything. It might predate PCI-e but it is still in use and is not considered a legacy port. All PCI-X is is PCI with a 64 bit interface. As such it has greater bandwidth and is ideally suited to things like hard disk controllers.

/offtopic ;)
 
Its an older version of the pci standard than pci express is isn't it?
i.e it came into use long before pci-e.
I thought pci-e was planned to replace agp, pci and pci-x at some point.

Since were on this topic, i encountered these whilst reaserching athlon mp boards and read something about if you put a pci device in a pci-x slot it will run at the speed of the slowest device in it i.e the pci device. Is this correct?
 
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Yes, PCI-X is backwards compatible with PCI. I can plug in a PCI sound card into a PCI-X slot with no troubles at all and run at PCI speeds. Similarly, I can plug a PCI-X card into a PCI slot and, if there's room on the motherboard for the card to hang over, it will work at the same speed as a good ol' fashioned PCI card.

PCI-e is able to replace the older PCI and PCI-X slots but apart from the x16 slot PCi-e hasn't really taken off.
 
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