Is there anything I can do about my video card situation...?

Question

Well basically all my computer has are three pci slots, now I know pci video cards are the worst...
there is something i noticed tho basically right about my top pci slot there is an indentation on my mb that is in the exact same shape as an agp slot only there is no actual slot it just looks like you could put one in there like it has these gold little circles that all kind of make of the slot and it really is in the exact shape as an agp slot and its right where you would expect an agp slot to be.. have you ever heard of this befor and is there a way to add an agp slot to my computer?

Answer 1

It looks like your motherboard is a cheap cut down variant that is why the AGP circuitry was part of the design but not executed on your specific board. It is very likely that the BIOS does not also support the AGP slot such that simply soldering one in place may not do the trick.

Make life easier and simpler; get a better motherboard w/ 8X AGP at least. There are still lots of good AGP cards and I believe ATI is first in coming out w/ a DX10 AGP card.

Answer 2

You can check your motherboard specifications if really it is an agp slot, if not, no way to add cause your bios won't recognized that....and FYI, PCI-Express is much advance than AGP....for graphics card, it should be PCI-Express16 slot rather than PCI-Express1....

Answer 3

AGP is slowly going away being replace by the better and faster pci-e. My advice get a new mobo.

Answer 4

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