This new PCI-X is longer than the PCI Slots on my older motherboard.  Is it backward compatible? thanx!!
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No PCI Express is a whole different ballgame.  You are better off putting a high end video card in that slot if you can. I do not believe they are downward...
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Dont give up the ship matey! I would try the new processor once more but read the manual thuroughly and make sure you have the procssor fan plugged in properly! Take your time, relax, read the manual once more! Cards themselves are pretty hard to install improperly, the most important things to remember are following the exact details of processor installation, cooling fan, and memory! Once you get it goin, its only easier to do the next one!
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Motherboards - not a great deal, but PCI-X and PCI-Express slots are relatively new, and important. PCI-X is a standard upgrade slot, while PCI-Express is for graphics cards. Gigabit LAN support is also new, and will be fairly important in future. Its 10 times faster than existing LAN connections.\n\nCPU's - Dual core processors and 64 bit processors are the newest mainstream technologies to arrive. Some processors have both of these features. 64 bit as yet isnt particularly important, but has the potential to allow for much more complex programs and greater speed. Dual core processors already allow significant speed improvements.\n\nRAM - DDR2 is the newest standard. RAM speeds are constantly increasing, and thats the main change.\n\nCD/DVD ROM - Are both being superseeded by HD-DVD and Blu Ray technology, which, is described in detail above. They simply allow much greater capacity.\n\nScanners, and Printers - As far as i know, there has been no major advances, merely constant updates and gradual improvement.\n\nHard Drives - 1.8" hard drives for portable units have become available which are smaller than other hard drive units. The main new technology in hard drives is "perpendicular recording", which allows data on the disk surface to be closer together which increases speed and capacity. Its not too common as yet, but it is becoming more widespread. Serial ATA (SATA) is also a relatively recent new connection standard, improving transfer speeds. 'Hybrid' hard drives will be available soon that use a large amount of flash memory as a buffer, suppposedly increasing speed.\n\nFloppy disk -  nothing new for years, this technology is completely obsolete.\n\nFlash - Is getting bigger, faster and cheaper.\n\nROM - nothing\n\nCache - on processors, its simply getting bigger
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That can be a difficult spot to be in, because Plug & Play has not determined what the device is, only that is requires drivers.  \n\nThis is what I believe the previous poster was alluding to, but was not very specific about what you need to do.  Most likely this is NOT a PCI slotted device at all.  Most likely, this is a component on the motherboard itself that utilizes the PCI bus.  Therefore, if you have the CD that has your drivers on it, you may be able to find the driver it's looking for.  \n\nThis may simply be the Northbridge drivers, or something similar. (An example would be if you have an Intel chipset and it wants those drivers. These are supplied by the manufacturer of the mobo.)  Be sure to install any drivers that came with your computer on CD, especially ones that run from setup files. Those tend to "blanket" install a bundle of necessary drivers and will often fix this kind of issue.\n\nNext, look for files of the .inf type and try each to see if windows recognizes the device.  If, when you point the unrecognized device to a particular .inf file it does not recognize it as being applicable, try another one.\n\nIt's tedious, but most likely, you will fix your issue after some trial and error.  \n\nIf that fails, you can try going to your manufacturer's website and downloading any drivers you do not already see installed.\n\nGood Luck!
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This is an on-board video adaptor.  Meaning it's built onto the motherboard.  The best way to upgrade is to see if your motherboard has an available AGP or PCO slot to install a new video card.
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From the sounds of it, it could be that the two cards use different processors.  As Processor speed increases, it doesn't necessairily mean it needs a faster bus to transfer data through.  There's just different technology behind it.
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PCI will be phased out sooner - it has already reached its limitations in ability to keep up with AGP and PCI-E quality.\nAGP is standard - good quality/reasonable price. It should be a while before it gets overtaken, but all things eventually do. And when it does...\nPCI-E will overtake AGP as the standard. Its capabilities are better than that of AGP or PCI. It can be pricey when you start looking at the best cards though.\n\nAlso, you had better check your motherboard to see what kind it will support.  No use buying one and finding out you can't use it.
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The 7900GT is very power hungry though (this doesn't answer your question but, narrow your search on newegg to PCIe graphics cards and sort through chip sets until you back up enough to find a low enough'd price/watt use age...actually, it's better to check the max amp output on the power supply, higher wattage ratings can be deceiving, these are all laypersons opionions by me!)
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Hi,\n\nI currently have an EVGA video card. EVGA 7800GT\nIt's a really good card but the funny thing is I have MSI's bios flash on my EVGA card. Why?\nBecause evga default bios that came with the card and even newer evga bios that they later made for this always kept giving me artifacts in games. But as soon as i flashed it with MSI's bios got no more problems :)\nThe card is good quality, but because of the problems i had with this card I wont really go buy another evga card anytime soon.\nI have heard many good things about XFX, but i never had or used a pc with xfx graphics. But XFX has received many good reviews from many pc sites.\n\nIf you have the spending money go for the 7900GT the the 7900GTX is a lot faster but also a lot more expensive.\nThe 7900GT is just right.\n\nThe problem you are might having with your game is probably you have the quality to low. You have it at 640x480 should have it at about 1024x768 much better quality.\nIf this is not the solution than probably the game itself is like that.
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that slot  is for a PCIE VGA Card
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This is an older system.  You need to find the actual motherboard manufacturer and model number.  You should then be able to find the information you need about the motherboard.  Are the specific jumpers you are concerned about?  Some of them might be obvious from looking closely.\n\nGood Luck!
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is your card a intergrated one,and if it isnt check to see if it is seated correctly as i had this error once because i had,nt inserted it properlly\n        go into bios and check the agp&#92;pci setting,it should be st to agp...not pci\n        also try downloading another catylyst driver ,try going to http://www.download.com/Display-Video/3150-2108_4-0.html?tag=dir for the appropriate driver and then burn it to disk,and install it from disk,not file\n        good luck
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Nope.  This is like putting a square peg in a round hole. \n\nLook for a PCI video card.\n\nIf you get a new motherboard that has a AGP slot, make sure that you know what you are looking at.   The old AGP boards and old AGP slots are different than the new 4X and 8X AGP slots.   Again, it's like Apples and Oranges.
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The agp 4x and 8x denote data trnasfer rate between cpu and agp card through the agp port. U must check for compatibility of ur new card with agp4x standard. Any way there is no chance for ur old motherboard to host  a card supporting only agp8x. So i hope ur new agp card also supports agp4x. Next what u have to check is that 'is ur new agp card a correct fit to old agp slot'. agp old and new standards not only differ in their speeds but also in operating voltages. I can't remember correct values but one is agp3.3.\n\nWhat u have to do is.\nGet into internet.\n Check ur motherboard manufacturer site to find which type of agp card it support.\n Second is to check agp card site and find if agp4x supported for ur card. Also rememeber to check the voltages also. \n If both are ok then check for any specific incmpatibility with ur motherboard and agp card listed either in ur motherboard manufacturer site or agp card site. Also check for newer drivers in these two sites.
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Not worth the trouble.  I would rather just buy a new motherboard than hunt down an AGP slot and solder it onto the board which may or may not work.  The AGP slot is sold with the motherboard and isn't mean't to be taken off so I'm not sure how they could have sold it to you like that in the first place.  Apparently you must have integrated onboard video as well since you can get into the BIOS.  If so, you might as well play it safe and stick with what works.  If you do plan to put an AGP slot on the board, be careful with it.  A bad solder job can short your system and all attached components.  If you're willing to take the risk it's a good learning experience, but if you just want to get your PC back up then I would just get a new board entirely.
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Wow. So the main thing to note about this board is that it takes DDR2 memory, so if you don't currently have that you will need to get it to be compatible. I would say you would need at least a 450W power supply. If you have less than that now, upgrade. This is also a PCI-Express board, so make sure you have a compatible video card too.
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The motherboard is an ASUS A7V-VM\nhttp://a7v.free.fr/Manuel%20a7v-vm%20quickstart.pdf\n\nHere is a link to a PCI graphics card available at Radio Shack -  \nhttp://www.radioshack.com/product/index....\n\nPCI graphics cards generally do not have any compatibility issues, unfortunately they are way outdated because PCI graphics use the slowest bus for graphics performance.