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Card upgrade help

Royc

Royc

Royc

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I am looking to upgrade my Graphics card but am not sure what type of card slot I have in my PC. My current card is a Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT and the motherboard is a Nvidia nForce3 Ultra 939 pin. I need to find out if the slot is PCI or PCI express.
Thanks for your help.
 
its pci express.

you would have to try really hard to buy an incorrect agp or older pci type.
 
there must be a printed name or model number on the board,

around the top slot or memory slots?
 
Royc said:
Not quite sure what you mean here - the board is an Nvidia one so are they not the manufacturer? Thanks
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Sorry, is it a Gigabyte, Asus or MSI or another, these should be printed on the board along with there model range.
 
YoungRogue said:
pretty sure the 6800gt was the last agp card nvidia made?
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nah, I had a gainward 7800gs which was a unique gs that was an agp version of the 7800 GT pci-e, and I think there was a later agp card than that released, not sure what.

Royc, download and run CPU-Z, look at the mainboard tab, find out your motherboard model, google it for the product page to find. If you download and run GPU-Z that should tell you if its AGP or PCI-E too in bus interface section.

It can be printed on the actual motherboard around the slot what type it is, and you could do some research to be able to identify whether a card/slot is pci-e or agp.

Nvidia just make the chipsets that run on the motherboard, another company brands it overall so there will be a company name and a model name/number code. nForce3 Ultra is the featured chipset and 939 was an older cpu socket for amd. Your motherboard will have an agp or pci-e slot for the graphics card then usually on an older board like that a series of PCI slots below the main graphics card slot.
 
BassPwr said:
Royc, download and run CPU-Z, look at the mainboard tab, find out your motherboard model, google it for the product page to find. If you download and run GPU-Z that should tell you if its AGP or PCI-E too in bus interface section.
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Many thanks, I have run CPU-Z and the Motherboard is an nforce4, manufacturer is Eveshamvale (it is a Evesham PC). It also says in the Graphics interface section that it is PCI Express so I guess that is it. I will have a gander inside just to make sure.
 
Just to cloud the issue I have dug out the specs for my PC and it says that it is a Nvidia 6800 card but the system and CPU-Z says it is a Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT!!!!!!

Almost easier to get a new PC LOL.
 
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