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Is this Geforce 5200 FX an AGP or PCI Express?
I finally received my Q6600 and I don't have enough money for a video card right now, but since my motherboard doesn't have onboard graphics, I have to somehow use a video card from an older computer that I have, but I don't know if it is a pci express or AGp type video card.
If possible, I took some pictures of the card on my motherboard, and I didn't know it's possible to find out what kind of card it is by looking at how the card is in the motherboard.
EDIT: New Pictures
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#1 cant see the pics. I click the link and it wants to download the pic but when I get it its some weird format.
#2 PCI express was not around when the 5000 series were being made. so its either pci or agp. if its sitting in the same type of slot that your other cards are in then its pci. if the slot is offset an inch or so from the other slots then its agp. pci is "usually" a white slot, and if I remember correctly agp was "usually" a brown slot.
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You can't even afford a $30 video card?
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Thats definitely AGP.
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Thats definitely AGP.
not necessarily. my old fx 5200 was pci. they came in both flavors
*EDIT unless you figured out how to see the pics
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Here, can someone take a look at these pictures then....
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nightfox is right. thats agp
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Agh, why did they even make graphic cards with agp. Was that because they didn't have the technology back then to use PCI video cards?
And Odin, I don't want to buy a $30 video card because I still want to play games, but I just don't have money for a video card -at this moment-. So, if anything, I can buy my video card in a week or so, but I want to set my computer up right now, but I don't want to spend $30 buck just for a week, that would be a waste.
I can easily stick a video card on the motherboard if the whole computer is put together, is that right? So if the CPU cooler and ram and everything is placed inside my p182 case, then I should still be able to easily put in a video card when I get it??
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Very big difference between PCI and PCI-Express
PCI has been around since the early 90's. however the bandwidth is shared between all the ports(modem, sound card, eithernet card, ect) so when you add a vid card it will saturated all that bandwidth and the whole system is bottlenecked. then AGP came along and offered a separate bandwidth lane for vid cards. it showed quite an improvement over regular PCI for gaming. then just a few years ago PCI-Express was introduced as a replacement for both PCI and AGP. it has soooo much more bandwidth, and the the bottlenecking problems are history for now. it has effectively gotten rid of AGP but the old PCI is still around because so many products still use it. PCI-E x1 and x4 slots have replaced the PCI slots, they offer more bandwidth and are a lot smaller than PCI slots. the Vid card slots are x16 and are a little larger the the old PCI slots.
PCI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periphe...t_Interconnect
AGP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port
PCIE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
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You sure you should be building or playing with machines if you can't even tell the difference between AGP and PCI-E? :D
I'm deadly serious though, really! I think even my 15 year old sister knows the difference between the two and yet she probably couldn't even change a processor, or anything apart from a stick of ram.
Even without looking you should know straight away there is no such thing as a pci-e Fx5200....and you should also know straight off what slot the card is plugged into just by looking at it in the mobo. Not that everyone should know this, but someone who builds, or even just plans to, should definitely know something like this in the blink of an eye...
And you should know that yes of course you can assemble the machine and then put in the card later. I know everyones got to learn sometime and someway but eh...you should really do some of the learning before you do the assembling!!