Help With Motherboard!

ok, so i was lookin into getting a new gfx card, so i opened up my comp, to check if i had an agp slot, or not. right next to my pci slots there is a brown slot half the size of a pci slot. its the same color as most agp slots, but it seems smaller than the pics of agp slots ive seen before. can you guys tell me if its a acp slot or not, and if not, what it is? ill upload a pic of it later

 

well to find out if you have an agp slot or not, run cpu-z. It should tell you somewhere in it. If it's not and AGP slot it may be a PCI-e x1 or x4.

 

The motherboard has a slotm for the gfx card

 

Does it look anything like this? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/AGP_slot.jpg (the brown one at the top)

Or any of these http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/PCIExpress.jpg (except for the one at the bottom, that one is PCI.)

 

which gfx card are you going to buy? you have to look, that your mainboard get enough power for it

 

the motherboard doesnt power the graphics card, the power supply does.

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
go there, download it, open it, and under the "Mainboard" tab, it will tell you your Graphic Interface.

 

the wires carry power to the graphics card

 

And there are no wires from the motherboard going into the graphics card. The cards card slides into the slot, then on some/most of the graphics cards, there is a 4-pin mini and that gets its female counter-part from the power supply, not the motherboard.

 

download cpu-z from HERE

unzip it and open it up and then go to the mainboard tab, it should tell you what slot you have at the bottom. If it says nothing then you have only PCI.

 

tell me i did not just say the same thing?

 

Eh, sorry. I didn't read all the relpy's.

But it's ok.

 

i downloaded cpu-z, ran the program, it says i have agp 2.0 or something similar, but i borrowed an old agp graphics card from a friend, and it doesnt fit into the slot. the slot is about half the size of a normal agp slot >.> ill upload the pic soon

 

He probably gave you an AGP 4X/8X but you need an AGP2X

If i'm right these are the only cards you can get

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....&SubCategory=48

 

I wouldn't even think about buying another AGP card. Just switch it all to PCI-E. Much cheaper.

What processor do you have? What speed is your RAM? (CPU-Z will help with all those questions.) How much money do you have?

 

BTK: even those cards wont fit, they are too big.

johndapunk: i got celeron 1.2ghz, 512mb ram, and no more than $110 to spend. :/