2007-10-17 04:37:00 · 3 answers · asked by April 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
If your old system was AGP and the new system is PCI-Express, then yes you'll need to get a new video card. The only exception would be if your video card was a PCI (do not confuse this with PCI-Express) based video card.
2007-10-17 04:45:11 · answer #1 · answered by Jim Maryland 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're thinking of changing your motherboard, as others have said, you'll need to make sure you've either got the right port on the board, or as is often the case now, a suitably powerful graphics card built in to the board itself.
For instance, I've recently upgraded my motherboard, and my new Asus board has a built-in 128Meg 3d graphics card that far out-performs my old 256 AGP 8x card.
I'd give you the exact model, but I'm at work just now, and can't remember it off the top of my head... I'll update if I find it later.
2007-10-17 04:49:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your new motherboard has an AGP slot, you wouldn't likely need to get a new one unless there's just some other sort of compatibility issue.
2007-10-17 04:45:09 · answer #3 · answered by Dalek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋