agp slots? where?

[c00kie]

at the moment i run a fairly run down hp. with a 1.7 celeron, xp home, intergrated graphics card, 256ram and yeah. well i want to start playing games at a reasonable pace (breach the 20fps barrier in enemy territory and play homeworld 2). i am looking to buy a geforce fx5200 but am unsure of whether it will actualy work... according to belarc...
so any advice on what i should go for? (im poor)

thanks for any help



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[Southern]

The AGP slot is on your motherboard, usually above the PCI slots which are a different size. I don't know why you have posted a Belarc report, it doesn't help at all. You could try adding another stick of 256Mb RAM as well as grabbing a Radeon 9600pro instead of that Nvidia card (in the last generation, ATI were better at making cards than Nvidia but the accollade has swung back to Nvidia now).

[bookworm]

Originally Posted by Southern

The AGP slot is on your motherboard, usually above the PCI slots which are a different size. I don't know why you have posted a Belarc report, it doesn't help at all. You could try adding another stick of 256Mb RAM as well as grabbing a Radeon 9600pro instead of that Nvidia card (in the last generation, ATI were better at making cards than Nvidia but the accollade has swung back to Nvidia now).

Take a look here, Belarc does give the clue to your motherboard, it is a HP Pavilion 8569A and here are your specifications, from what I can see you do not have an AGP slot but you do have free PCI slots.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...lang=en#N103A8

Hope this helps

[xcrunner503]

ebay is the way to go man. if you want cheap video cards go there. make sure you check the description, you want a 128 or more megabyte video card. From what i understand from bookworm, you dont have any AGP slots which are those slots that look like PCI card slots cept they brown and a little thicker. You should make sure you are buying a PCI video card and not a AGP cuz well you dont have an AGP slot! If you are unsure about wether a video card on ebay is AGP or PCI, try asking the seller a question, or look at the pic of the card. AGP cards have a little hook at the end of the connector and PCI cards don't.

Here's an AGP card, look at the connector, theres a little hook at the end, if you see this that means its AGP and you dont want it, you want a PCI.

http://www.ixbt.com/video2/images/r9...ith-cooler.jpg

[c00kie]

thanks, um yeah but isnt pci slower than agp? i got a real cheap agp fx5200 128mb and all that and its about time i upgraded. would it be best to just overhaul my computer bit by bit? such as first new motherboard, then maybe cpu, then ram...
and if i do do it like that, will there be any major problems that i have to watch out for?

thanks again

[xcrunner503]

probably no major problems will occur. just make sure your processor fits into the slot of hte new motehrboard same with the RAM. you dont wanna buy a mobo that is uncompatiable with your components.

[c00kie]

cool, and my final question, how do i know if a new motherboard will be compatible with my current processor (1.7 celeron)?