I have a 7 year old system with an ABIT AV8 motherboard. It's been running Windows XP since I built it.
Lately I got the idea to try to install Windows 7 64 bit, but my ATI video card didn't like that. I kept getting a BSOD with "ATIKMDAG.SYS" in the message so I decided to purchase a new video card with an Nvidia chipset. I bought this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125368 because my MB has an AGP slot, but the performance is not too great.
I'm thinking of RMAing this one in favor of something a little better, but there aren't too many GPUs with AGP interfaces.
Bottom line, will my MB support a GPU with a PCI express 2.0 x 16 interface? I think it will, but I'd appreciate hearing from the experts.
Thanks in advance
Lately I got the idea to try to install Windows 7 64 bit, but my ATI video card didn't like that. I kept getting a BSOD with "ATIKMDAG.SYS" in the message so I decided to purchase a new video card with an Nvidia chipset. I bought this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125368 because my MB has an AGP slot, but the performance is not too great.
I'm thinking of RMAing this one in favor of something a little better, but there aren't too many GPUs with AGP interfaces.
Bottom line, will my MB support a GPU with a PCI express 2.0 x 16 interface? I think it will, but I'd appreciate hearing from the experts.
Thanks in advance