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knero718

11-13-2006, 11:26 PM

I can corrently only use AGP x8 how do I upgrade to PCI-e? Do I have to get a new motherboard???

DKJones96

11-13-2006, 11:50 PM

new mainboard is the only way

Midknyte

11-14-2006, 01:37 AM

yes you need a new board. the chipset has to support PCIe.

http://www.motherboards.org/articles/tech-planations/1438_1.html

Baddog

11-14-2006, 06:35 AM

You almost get suckered into "New" everything.:rolleyes:

rockinup1231

11-14-2006, 10:50 AM

He's new. I may have only joined May of this year, but I had that train of thought too.

I know I should start a new thread for this stupid question, but here it is.

I have PCI, and I have AGP, I have two video hook-ups. Is the one directly attached to the mobo the PCI one?

Board:SIS 735, Socket 428 (A)

Baddog

11-14-2006, 11:34 AM

The AGP will be a long brown slot.
A PCI slot will be white(the same as for modems and sound cards), used for a PCI Card (Not PCIe)

stealth17

11-15-2006, 12:14 AM

I have PCI, and I have AGP, I have two video hook-ups. Is the one directly attached to the mobo the PCI one?

Board:SIS 735, Socket 428 (A)

I dont quite understand what you are asking. The AGP slot is a faster connection direcly to the northbridge chipset where as a PCI slot connects to the southbridge chipset and then to the northbridge.

AGP has much more bandwidth available to it compared to a PCI slot. The lattency is much lower on an AGP slot as well, all this put together makes the AGP interference a much better choice for high-end video cards :p

PCI-e is the next generation high speed, high bandwidth interference designed for high-end video cards. AGP is still overkill for even the latest video cards. The downfall is the limited amount of new AGP cards being released (although I read ATi is releasing a new one soon that will surpass any current AGP cards) and you can only get Sli on PCI-e.

knero718

11-15-2006, 01:00 AM

(although I read ATi is releasing a new one soon that will surpass any current AGP cards) and you can only get Sli on PCI-e. If you can get a link from where you read that, and post it, it would be greatly appreciated. I'd be very interested in seeing/reading it..

stealth17

11-15-2006, 09:12 PM

If you can get a link from where you read that, and post it, it would be greatly appreciated. I'd be very interested in seeing/reading it..

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20061023104107.html

knero718

11-15-2006, 10:56 PM

^^ Thanks.