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Name: PaulPaul
Date: December 30, 2008 at 04:26:48 Pacific
OS: XP Home
CPU/Ram: P 4 3.2 / 2GB
Product: N/a / N/A
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I have just bought a new graphics card.Ge Force 215 AGP. My old one was only 65. My mother board has an AGP slot. If I had bought a vidio card for a PCI card leaving the AGP slot blank would the comp work. Also I have been told that AGP is old now and PCI is the latest. I do not want to change my motherboard just for that. Is the AGP card i bought just as good?



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Name: StuartS
Date: December 30, 2008 at 04:53:51 Pacific
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PCIe or PCI-Express is the latest, not PCI.

If you only have PCI slots and not PCIe then stick with AGP. You don't normally get AGP and PCIe together.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Ex...

Stuart


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Response Number 2
Name: jam
Date: December 30, 2008 at 04:58:57 Pacific
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"Ge Force 215 AGP. My old one was only 65"

I have no idea what a "Ge Force 215 AGP" is, or a "65" for that matter. Double check those model numbers....


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Response Number 3
Name: PaulPaul
Date: December 30, 2008 at 05:45:57 Pacific
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This is the one I have just bought is it a good one Sweex NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 256 MB AGP............my old one only had 65 MB


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Response Number 4
Name: jam
Date: December 30, 2008 at 09:27:26 Pacific
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"This is the one I have just bought is it a good one Sweex NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 256 MB AGP............my old one only had 65 MB"

No card has 65MB...64MB maybe?

The FX series was released about 5-6 yrs ago. The FX5500 isn't a great card but I'm sure it's better than what you had. Do you plan on gaming with it?

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?...


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Response Number 5
Name: PaulPaul
Date: December 31, 2008 at 01:11:58 Pacific
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Trust me it was 65 or 64 will have to look at my screen grab from dxdiag I made just before I changed it. Cant say i have noticed much of a difference. Don't know too much about computers. My son thought it would be a good ides to upgrade it as his HD videos files via Pinnacle jump every few seconds and a warning comes up to alert you to that fact. Must say have not had time to check out this new card yet to see if that has cured it. What would you have bought?


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