AGP or PCI?

[shawshank62]

A friend of mine wants to buy a new video card but is unsure whether his current one is a PCI or AGP. I told him to go into device manager but it did not specify. Is there a program that he can d/l or something in xp that will tell him whether it is agp or pci?

Damn dells, i hate em.

open up the case and look on the motherboard. if you see a brown slot. then it has AGP

if you see just white slots you can only use pci

[shawshank62]

thats what i told him to do, he asked if there was any other way. so i guess not?

[soulja]

i suggest if u have a brown slot above the pci slots, then use it, its better, but if u don't have one then u can use pci

[shawshank62]

ummm...that wasnt my question

[griobhta]

well when i look at my graphics card in the devices i get a location entry. Says that it is integrated at PCI slot 6.

Other wise try downloading AIDA32 from Aida32 it's a great free app that can list all the stuff on the machine.

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Does Belarc advisor tell that kind of info?

You can get the motherboard model from it and probably extrapolate using the internet...

[shawshank62]

thx for the link grio, that is what i was looking, a program like that. Its a shame he logged off before i could give it to him I convinced him to look inside, but thx for all your help. Also, anothe quick question. If it is agp, would you recommend:

FX 5200 128mb DDR
or
Radeon 9200?

trying to stay under 80 bucks w/ shipping.

The 9200 is a DirectX 8.1 part; being such I would consider a Radeon 8500/9100 instead for DirectX 8.

The FX 5200 is kinda lame - the replacement for the GeForce MX series, but it does support DirectX 9. Good value.

[shawshank62]

right now he has an mx420 with 64mb ram. Which would be the better value iyo? FX 5200 128mb or Radeon 9100 128mb?