Video Card

[Twister026]

I plan on buying this video card from newegg. Do you guys think this will run on medium with no lag?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814135185

[Hat Rack]

It will work fine as long as you have a PCI slot. Do you have that?

[Twister026]

I am checking what I have now in my computer, and I can't seem to find where it says PCI.

[Conscious*]

I have a very similar card works very nice.

[ANTONIUS]

[Jim0322]

Originally posted by Twister026
I plan on buying this video card from newegg. Do you guys think this will run on medium with no lag?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814135185

I think it is a good card but PCI or AGP? What mobo and processer do you have?

[=ender=]

Like Antonius alluded to, it's a PCI-E (PCI Express) card, not a PCI card.

[Hat Rack]

Didn't know there was a difference between PCI and PCI-E

[Mr.Irritation]

It's only a suggestion. You might want to waite until after the holidays are over and see if there will be a sale. Usually after the new year there are alot of sales on everything. Thats if you can hold out till then? Personally I will be waiting until after the first of the year. An I will have to go with an AGP set up, not going to change MoBo for a video card right now. Besides MoBo is only a year old AMD 64.

[kevd]

if you want to go all out...get a Radeon X850 (i think mine is PCI). i can run all settings on high with no lag, its pretty sweet

[Padre]

Originally posted by Hat Rack
Didn't know there was a difference between PCI and PCI-E

PCI-E is replacing AGP as the new "faster" connection.

You'll need to have the slot on the motherboard - and only the newer MB's will have it. They usually don't have an AGP slot. Older MB's will not have a PCI-E slot. If you're looking to upgrade your MB, you'll probably have to upgrade the video card (and vice versa).

You can see more about PCI-E below:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1087

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1152234,00.asp

[Hash]

That's not to say AGP is obsolete yet, i've noticed no real difference between my old AGP board and my new PCI-e board, funny thing is though i tend to crash more on my new that i did the old one.

[deathBOB]

There is no speed difference, but the PCI-E slot provides the card with more power than AGP and all the OEMs have swtiched over to PCIE, meaning AGP is effectively dead.

[PraiseA||ah]

The biggest impact that PCI Express has made on the desktop market is with the PCIe x16 graphics slot. Found in the latest Intel and AMD-based chipsets, This implementation of the technology has virtually replaced AGP 8x as the platform of choice for graphics card manufacturers. All new graphics cores from both nVidia and ATI support PCI Express x16 by default, though some have been ported to AGP 8x.

The 164-pin X16 slot provides a total usable bandwidth of around 4GB/s in each direction, double the 2.1GB/s bandwidth that the 8x AGP spec boasts. The X16 specification is pretty similar to AGP in terms of connector card size, though entirely non-compatible, which gives it a boost in terms of familiarity and ease of installation.

nVidia has succeeded in creating dual-SLI graphics technology using the PCIe x16 slot and its new nForce 4 chipset . This technology allows two PCIe x16 slots to split 16 lanes of PCI Express into two sets of eight and run two identical video cards in tandem. This leads to often dramatic boosts in 3D gaming performance.

From one of the articles...

[SkiloDog2000]

so in short, yes that would run pci-e
if you bought your machine more than a year ago for a med range price its probably agp