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Question on pci slots

  • 19-09-2004 7:21pm
    #1
    sinjin_smythe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭


    Can you get an adaptor on pci slots for an agp card to fit ? If so tell me where


Comments

  • #2
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i wouldn't think so as i think the voltages supplied to a PCI slot differs from what a AGP card would need


  • #3
    sinjin_smythe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭sinjin_smythe


    well is it possible to fit an AGP slot into your motherboard (as in do it youself)


  • #4
    Ojsimpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Ojsimpson


    not recommended


  • #5
    duridian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭duridian


    weedhead wrote:
    well is it possible to fit an AGP slot into your motherboard (as in do it youself)
    If an agp slot is not fitted to the board first day when the board is manufactured then there is no way to fit it thereafter. Motherboards have many "layers" of circuit tracks on top of each other and therefore even if you had some serious (and I mean SERIOUS) soldering skills you probably couldn't get at some of the points needed for connections as they could possibly be buried beneath other tracks.
    There are 3 main scenarios where you would be without an AGP slot.
    1. You motherboard is old and predates AGP technology(Pentium 1 or older mainly). If this is the case you'd be as well off upgrading the entire system.
    2. Your board is a "budget" model with integrated AGP graphics but no AGP upgrade slot. These are usually aimed more at business users than gamers.
    The only option for upgrading graphics on a board without an AGP slot is to use a PCI graphics card, and this will be harder to find, be possibly more expensive and will likely not be as fast as an equivalent AGP based card due to the limitations of the PCI bus. It may be more practical for you to get a different motherboard compatible with your current CPU and RAM and with an AGP slot than to go this route
    3. You have a very new PCI-Express based motherboard In this case woohoo ! Why would you want to bother with an older technology like AGP when you have a state of the art board like that? Use a PCI-X board on this instead.

    hope this clears things up for you Weedhead.


  • #6
    sinjin_smythe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭sinjin_smythe


    Yeah well thanks ,my pc is only one year old its a dell 2400 with 512 ram 2.8 processor and 80 gig hard drive .The basterds at dell didnt even bother installing an AGP slot.A well thnks anyway


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