graphics card help!?!

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i got told there are different types of graphics cards ,agp being one of them and two others...

how can i tell which mine is..ive bought a new graphics cards and ram card thing but know nothing about fixing them in...how can i tell ive bought the right one..

i went into display options and i have a radeon 9200 se agp it says on the adapter information bit...but looking in the properties section it says its in pci slot 1....can anyone help me on this thing???
 
open your case.

Motherboard-AGP-Slot.jpg


Thats an AGP slot its typicaly above the pci slots at the very top and its brown in colour.

Chances are if you have an old motherboard its going to be AGP or have an AGP slot on it, the newer Motherboards coming out now are PCI-Express only they are much faster than AGP (you cant put a PCI-E card into a normal PCI socket)


Important note before you do anything inside your pc make sure its shut off, make sure you arent holding any static in your hands (touch something earthed) and most importantly make sure that what ever you have put in the pc is in in the right way and FULLY locked into place, or else you will **** something up and you will have to pay more money for new hardware :)
 
thanks black dust,i'll be getting someone to put it in for me....i'm not the most computer whizzy type in the world!!


cheers :up:
 
thanks black dust,i'll be getting someone to put it in for me....i'm not the most computer whizzy type in the world!!


cheers :up:

Ah always the best bet (as long as they know what to do :p)

No Problimo!
 
It's in and done now!!!

been playing Doom 3.....wow it is amazing!!!!!

shouldve done this ages ago....the damn PC market moves so fast tho!
 
your telling me!!! i cant play the new splinter cell because its 3.0 shading and i have a card with 2.0 lame
 
thats why the pc market will always be second to consoles in gaming...cos its sooo damn hard and expensive to keep up with the move in technology.

however i have actually seen the playstation 3 in the flesh not at the autosport show in birmingham yesterday (quite close to you i guess if you're in stoke!) and it looked impressive!!..

so i think thats the way forward...i hope they introduce a keyboard and mouse...cos 1st person games are so much better like that i think!!
 
thats why the pc market will always be second to consoles in gaming...cos its sooo damn hard and expensive to keep up with the move in technology.

however i have actually seen the playstation 3 in the flesh not at the autosport show in birmingham yesterday (quite close to you i guess if you're in stoke!) and it looked impressive!!..

so i think thats the way forward...i hope they introduce a keyboard and mouse...cos 1st person games are so much better like that i think!!

True, yeah i saw one a few months back in town looked cool! Most of my games are 1st person shooting games haha! :D
 
me too...i have all the dooms,quakes (except 4),unreals,halo and one or two others...

do you have any of the half life games??
are they any good..ive just ordered one called prey that looks pretty good.
 
me too...i have all the dooms,quakes (except 4),unreals,halo and one or two others...

do you have any of the half life games??
are they any good..ive just ordered one called prey that looks pretty good.

Naw mostly, Doom3, Splinter cell(all of them) Call of Duty (all of them) Ghost Recon, F.E.A.R, and Grand theft auto
 

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