AGP & PCI

[kitteh_]

I'm confused about the AGP & PCI.
How do I know which I have and what bandwidth I have for them?
I'm relatively new to this but I know a little.

 

[hunter315]

Easiest way to see which one you have is to take a look at your motherboard.

 

[FunSurfer]

Or download CPU-Z.

 

[Herr_Koos]

Nice pic ;-)

 

[kitteh_]

Thanks, this is very useful!
Would you have AGP as your main and some other PCI; Google says they might be 'extension' or 'expansion' slots, what are these?
Thanks

 

[kitteh_]

Or download CPU-Z.

I have got CPU-Z but I'm not sure where it says?

 

[hunter315]

older boards had a single AGP as their primary and a few PCI slots to support other expansion cards, more recent boards tend to have one or more PCI-E slots.

They are called expansion slots because they allow you to plug cards into your system to expand its capabilities over those which the motherboard provides.

 

[wishmaster12]

agp uses the ram on the mother board pci-e uses the ram on the video card

 

[FunSurfer]

I have got CPU-Z but I'm not sure where it says?

Click on "Mainboard" and look down in the "Graphic Interface" - your bus type and transfer rate are written there.
There is an example in this site: http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Cpu-Z-Review-38137.shtml
look down at the middle review image (example of AGP X8 interface).

 

[kitteh_]

Non-seriously,
Would this be a good buy?
http://www.digitalpromo.co.uk/gigabyte-nvidia-geforce-9600-gt-pcie-gddr3-1000mb-graphics-card-retail-p-3720.html

 

[hunter315]

Need to know what kind of slot you have first before we can suggest a card. But at that price that card is a pretty bad buy, overclockers.co.uk has an XFX 5750 for the same price.

 

[Mousemonkey]

agp uses the ram on the mother board pci-e uses the ram on the video card

So why do AGP cards have onboard memory then?