PCI & PCI Express

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  1. hodgey

    hodgey Geek Trainee

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    can anyone tell do these 2 cards go into a normal pci slot on motherboard or do you have to have special pci express slots on motherboard to use the pci express cards ?

    thanks:)
     
    hodgey, Sep 15, 2006
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  2. megamaced

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    PCI and PCI-E are completey different. They are incompatible with each other
     
    megamaced, Sep 15, 2006
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  3. zeus

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    zeus, Sep 15, 2006
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  4. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    Ya missed the sticky about it. ;)
     
    Big B, Sep 15, 2006
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  5. hodgey

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    my PC is 4 years old so what slots would you think i would have to play with on my board ?
     
    hodgey, Sep 15, 2006
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  6. megamaced

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    Well open up your computer and find out! :D

    If you've got a brown slot then you've got AGP. Otherwise you are stuck with plain old PCI
     
    megamaced, Sep 15, 2006
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  7. hodgey

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    the graphics card i have in at moment is a radeon 9000 atlantis pro, do you know what slot that would use, sorry not very computer literate :)
     
    hodgey, Sep 15, 2006
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  8. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    Most likely AGP. PCI Express has only shown up in motherboards since about last year. I could be wrong, but I do believe that the Radeon 9000's only came out in AGP format.
     
    Big B, Sep 15, 2006
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