Okay, I'm going to ask for a Voodoo5 for Christmas. Thanks to those who
suggested it earlier. :) Now, the question. What is the difference between
PCI and AGP? Which version do I need to get? I'm using a late 1998 model
Gateway PII 400mhz machine, 64megs RAM that I might upgrade to 128megs sometime
soon. Thanks.
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Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
http://simcrash.00game.com
>
>agp if you have the slot for it. sell the 64meg and get a 128meg dimm, $50
>now.
Alright, how do I know if I have an AGP slot? I don't know much at all about
computer hardware...
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Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
http://simcrash.00game.com
Thanks Daxe, just the trick. I've got an AGP card apparently. Of course, just
before I read this, I talked to a Gateway tech support person online and
provided me with info on my computer that said I have AGP. But I, of course,
was still wary about that. ;)
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Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
http://simcrash.00game.com
agp if you have the slot for it. sell the 64meg and get a 128meg dimm, $50
now.
rms
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"Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> >
> >agp if you have the slot for it. sell the 64meg and get a 128meg dimm,$50
> >now.
>
> Alright, how do I know if I have an AGP slot? I don't know much at allabout
> computer hardware...
A good place for some quick answers is the 3dfx site at www.3dfx.com Open
up "products", then V5 5500, then look over on the right and click "agp vs
pci". That page has a "Can my PC support agp?" section with a brief
description and a picture of agp vs pci slots. This should help you out.
It looks like a mini pci slot, on mine its brown... usually above the pci
slots if your looking into the side of your computer.
Charlie
"Dan Belcher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> >
> >agp if you have the slot for it. sell the 64meg and get a 128meg dimm,$50
> >now.
>
> Alright, how do I know if I have an AGP slot? I don't know much at allabout
> computer hardware...
>
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> Dan Belcher
> Team Racing Unlimited
> http://simcrash.00game.com
On 25 Nov 2000 18:18:10 GMT, [email hidden] (Dan Belcher) thus
spoke:
>Okay, I'm going to ask for a Voodoo5 for Christmas. Thanks to those who
>suggested it earlier. :) Now, the question. What is the difference between
>PCI and AGP? Which version do I need to get? I'm using a late 1998 model
>Gateway PII 400mhz machine, 64megs RAM that I might upgrade to 128megs sometime
>soon. Thanks.
>
PCI transfers data at 33mb/sec, AGP 66mb/sec. With that being said,
you won't notice much dif in performance between the two from what I
have read.AGP V5 doesn't use AGP texturing so apart from the data
transfer rate there is no dif between the two. AGP slot is closest to
the cpu and looks like a PCI slot, only it is shorter and is placed
further into the mb. Should be brown in colour and the PCI slots are
white.
On 25 Nov 2000 19:28:29 GMT, [email hidden] (Dan Belcher) wrote:
>>
>>agp if you have the slot for it. sell the 64meg and get a 128meg dimm, $50
>>now.
>
>Alright, how do I know if I have an AGP slot? I don't know much at all about
>computer hardware...
Right click "My computer"
pick "properties"
"Device Manager" tab
go down to "system devices"
click the plus sign in the box to expand the tree for that heading.
look down the list for anything that mentions AGP.
if you see something, you have an AGP slot. If you don't, you
probably don't.
_____or_________
right click the empty desktop
pick properties.
go to the "settings" tab.
it should tell you wwhat monitor you have and what type of video card
it is giving it a signal. If it mentions PCI, you have a PCI video
card. If it mentions AGP, you have an AGP slot.
with all that said, you may have an AGP slot which is not enabled in
the BIOS, which would not show up any of these places, but its
unlikely gateway would sell a computer with an AGP slot and no AGP
card.
~daxe
