What's a PCI-Express???

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IQJUMPuw

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Hey all

I stopped upgrading my computer years ago and I noticed most high-end video cards are PCI-Express now? I wanted to get a better video card but I don't know what PCI-Express mean. Will they fit in normal PCI slot or do I have to get a new motherboard that supports it?

My system is:
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ Socket A
Samsung 1GB PC2700
ATi Radeon 9800
Dell 2005FPW Monitor
 
What's the difference though? PCI and PCI-Express. I'm guessing it's faster? Do I need a new power supply too?
 
IQJUMPuw said:
What's the difference though? PCI and PCI-Express. I'm guessing it's faster? Do I need a new power supply too?
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Google is your friend and Also about the PSU it depends on how powerful the VGA card is. The X1x00XT/X and the 7x00GTX 512 is going too use up more power then lets say a X8x0XT and 6800 Ultra. And also it depends on the Rails on the PSU. The higher the Rails the better.
 
PCI-E is the new AGP. It's faster and just all round better :D (bigger bandwith I think) Anyway, the slot it uses is a PCI-Ex16 not the other PCI-Ex1 slot. So it's just the new AGP :D
 
so your still on pci video cards and missed out on AGP?!? AHAHAHHAHAHAH
 
00fil00 said:
so your still on pci video cards and missed out on AGP?!? AHAHAHHAHAHAH
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Good one there buddy...if you read his post, you'd see that he has a 9800 Pro.
 
Dark_fire said:
there is no current sA mobo that has PCIe so your out of luck
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Yea, you will need a completely new system, ground up.
 
I really have to wonder why people don't Google for information. It's not like this is a hard to find answer.
 
yea its like

your comp has a highway runing to the pci ports, the regular ports for everthing.... sound cards some video cards, modems, you know w/e.

but they needed more power for a video card, so they made a new freeway for it. the Accellerated grapchics Port (AGP). but... when the.... highway that is pci hit the freeway that was agp, you got laggage. not coo. so they removed the agp thing alltogether, and added more lanes to the pci highway. and also made it faster.

so now you dont need a junction of pci and agp lanes.
 
as along with the things others have said about bandwith pci express also suplies more voltage, iirc around 75 watts of power
 
Unless you want to build an new system it apears as if an AGP card will be your best option.
 
That is why we maintain a forum here, to ask questions. If everyone went to Google for an answer we could shut this site down. Give it a rest.

AppaYipYip said:
I really have to wonder why people don't Google for information. It's not like this is a hard to find answer.
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MajorDomo said:
That is why we maintain a forum here, to ask questions. If everyone went to Google for an answer we could shut this site down. Give it a rest.
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well i kinda agree with AppaYipYip on this one. you would not go into sports car enthusiast forum and ask "what is fuel injection". the op is not a noobie :rolleyes: and could have been more resourceful and used google. he would have had atleast got a basic understanding of what was going on in the modern world of computers. of course this is just my opinion but these are the [H]ard forums right. lol. :D
 
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