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Video card PCI x16 help
PsychoJon200
Member UncommonPosts: 24
in Hardware
Well, i found this graphics card that i do believe is enough for what i intend to do and is pretty much good enough for my computer. The thing about it...is that i have no clue if my computer has PCI express x1 or x16 or what?
So is there a way to find out what i have or does it even matter?
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Download 3DMark06 (http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmark06/). The free basic edition has a pretty comprehensive system explorer option that will give you a detailed list of what you have in your PC. It will tell you what slots you have and what's in them now. A little more than what you need at this moment, but it'll help answer those types of questions for you in the future. Plus it's a lot easier to decipher than say the default system info device manager in Windows.
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Member Since March 2004
your pc wont have pci x1 as the main graphics slot unless it is ancient or it has a AGP slot instead
Belarc advisor is a nify checking tool that tells you what your pcs specs are etc.
PCI-e is the slot you would use for a graphics card if your board isnt an AGP board.
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