What do you recommend, GeForce 6600 AGP or PCI?
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depends on your mother board. The AGP is better if your motherboard is equipped with an AGP port; otherwise you'd have to go with PCI.
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In the grand scheme of things, AGP is right in the middle.\nPCI will go out first - it has already reached its limitations in ability to keep up with AGP and PCI-E.\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, check out some of the motherboards your favorite company is producing.  Some companies are phasing slots out that other companies still using.  Most companies will list all their motherboards step-wise by make and you can view the specifications for each one and start to infer the changes that company is moving toward.
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For AGP your best bet is a Radeon 6800 graphics card. Buy a GT if you can afford it. You have choices of 128mb or 256mb. Choose what you can afford but I believe a 128mb GT is better than a standard 256mb.\n\nThere are websites that will do detailed comparisons giving you statistics from playing the latest games on them. Google "graphics comparison statistics" and see what you find.\n\nAs for your other PC I wouldn't bother spending any money upgrading it, if all you do is Internet and photo editing then your current graphics will be fine and who needs great sound on a PC?
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I am assuming it is standard pci and not pci express.\n\nHere are two pictures showing the differences:\n\n(AGP is on top)\nhttp://russelltexas.com/pcparts/AGP_PCI.JPG\n\nhttp://www.si87.com/Products/Videocards/agpvspci/\n\nHope this helps.
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Mmm, don't really have enough information to tell you exactly how big of a difference. For example: some of the geforce 7900 cards are 256mb, some are 512mb. Either way, you're likely at least doubling your video memory, and going from agp to pci-ex, correct? It would make a huge difference, but Oblivion is a resource hog. It would be much smoother, but it wouldn't be perfect.
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I would look at the latest versions of the Nvidia or ATI graphics card range ie ATI Radeon 9800 or Nvidia 6800 or 7600 ( I dont think they do an AGP version of the 7800 or 7900 although I could be wrong ) Worth while checking out though. Look on www.tomshardware.com and www.firingsquad.com for reviews etc\n\nI hope this helps
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this may be a silly question, but the msi cards are pci-e and not AGP? there should be a small row of pins on the top of the card. I believe you will need to be able to  attach the sli bridge to get the 6600's to work in sli mode
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I've used both, and they both do the job they are suppose to do.  Nvidia can be annoying sometimes though, and ATI graphics cards are usually more solid in proformance.  So if I had to pick, I'd pick ATI.
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Both companies make good cards, sometimes nvidia is better than Ati, sometimes Ati is better than nvidia.\nYou should look at the card that is better, not the company. For example, if you want to buy card that cost around 130$ then you should get  geforce 7600GS, becasue this is the best card for that price.\nIf you want to get card that cost 450$ then you should get radeon X1900xtx, because it's currently the best for that price.\n\nSo, you should look at the card that perform the best at the price that you want to buy.
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yes - have to buy one first - but ensure that you buy the correct one first \n\ncheck out your pc specs to see if you pc supports either agp - pci or pci express\n\n\nall you have to do then is install it - very easy to do - 1 screw and two clips
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Hmm... well, what does your motherboard have, an agp slot, or a pci-express? That's the first thing you need to find out, unless you intend to change your motherboard too... and changing your motherboard almost always means changing your cpu, too, and changing either one of those means reinstalling windows, lol. Fun. After that... well... get the best you can afford. I have an ATI Radeon 9800 pro that I'm quite pleased with, myself.
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PCI Express if you have one.\nOtherwise AGP.\nPCI is like 16x slower than AGP and will give you horrible performance.\n\nKeep in mind the video card determins which slot you can put it in.  Only an AGP video card will go in an AGP slot, etc.\n\nAlso make sure the card you buy will work with your motherboard.   A motherboard will generally have PCI Express and PCI, or AGP and PCI.  I've never seen a motherboard with both AGP and PCI Express.
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I have the nVidia GeForce FX 5200 AGP Card and I run it on AGP 2X and is very good if you have AGP 4X or 8X it would be wicked. Note In June 2006 Nvidia may be releasing a new driver for the card that makes it easier to configure the card. Nvidia cards are better than ATI.
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1- Nvidia G-Force 2MX 200 AGP video card\n\n1- Nvidia G-Force 4MX 440 64mb AGP video card
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Frankly,  I Don't see the point. \n\nFXF's 7800 AGP is the best card (well, short of Wildcat Realizm 800), but the limitation is your interface. \n\n4x AGP is really slow, sure it's better then PCI regular, but not by a whole lot. You'll be putting a super fast card on a slow interface. Think of it like this, putting the cheapest gasoline and cheapest tires into a Ferrari, and then driving it. \n\nOdds are also that since you're using a D845GBV board, that the rest of your system is pretty obsolete too, including your powersupply. The 7800 is a powerhog. If you have less then a 300 watt with two drives, a decent CPU and the basics, you will incounter problems from startup, to random shutdowns. \n\nIf you're willing to spend the $260+ on the 7800s, the better upgrade for you would be to simply buy a motherboard that has a PCI-E x16, and get a Nvidia 6800 (256 bit version) and upgrade your power supply. You'll see a much better performance overall with a newer motherboard, better power supply and better graphics card rather then just upgrading your graphics card.
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For AGP and PCI-X video cards look on newegg.com :)
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not much. spend about 30 bucks more and get a 6600GT 128meg card. works with all games. very nice for the price. go to www.newegg.com  they have the best deals.