agp or pci

[Guest doomgod12345]

ok i have been thinking that my mother board had PCI for the 3d card but now i think it may be AGP wich i want it to be. i dont know what i have and i dont want to take the 3d crad out to see is therte any way i can find out what i have with out removing the card

[Jon]

Erm yeah, you look at the socket its plugged into. Short white = PCI, short brown + inset = AGP, long black = ISA

[masterhassan]

go to c:/program files/directx adn click on dxdiag then go to display,at the bottom you will see 3 little bars directdreaw, direct3d agp, unless it says they're not available they should all be enabled, if it says agp is available then you've got it

[sirgalahadwizar]

Uh oh, but wait a minute... I don't have anything in my directx directory except a sub-directory called "setup", and the only programs in that one are the setup.exe, DxInfo, and DxTool

[bitstate]

this might be the thread.... :O)

some days ago i bought a riva tnt2 (agp) only to find out that my mother board didn't have any agp slot (wierd isn't it since my board is from 1998.. ?), so i had to return it to the shop, however it turns out that another shop sells the same card but with a pci connection.

so.. what do i loose by going for the pci version (i mean do i severely loose performance or anything) ?

[Jon]

sirgalahadwizar said:

Uh oh, but wait a minute... I don't have anything in my directx directory except a sub-directory called "setup", and the only programs in that one are the setup.exe, DxInfo, and DxTool

Yeah this is a rather dumb-ass idea, you can't beat actually looking at the damn motherboard.

[Jon]

bitstate said:

this might be the thread.... :O)

some days ago i bought a riva tnt2 (agp) only to find out that my mother board didn't have any agp slot (wierd isn't it since my board is from 1998.. ?), so i had to return it to the shop, however it turns out that another shop sells the same card but with a pci connection.

so.. what do i loose by going for the pci version (i mean do i severely loose performance or anything) ?

Hmm well agp is faster than pci because it a higher bitrate (hmm not sure 'bout this but isnt pci 16bit and agp 32, or is it 32/64?) and so pushes em faster. I haven't benchmarked it though, and dont have anything to hand.

[Guest T-N-T]

Teppic said:

Erm yeah, you look at the socket its plugged into. Short white = PCI, short brown + inset = AGP, long black = ISA

Well Teppic, you know your expansion slots now don't you. I'm impressed. I'm currently going to College to be a Microcomputer Specialist and I've seen plenty of that crap :)

[Jon]

Hehe after seeing and experiencing the computer sales industry in england I really think you shouldn't own a computer unless you can name every component in the machine and build it up... In one case, someone sent their machine away to have the CD-ROM replaced, and it came back fine... although what he didnt know is his processor, motherboard and memory were downgraded to poorer components.