i was thinkin about buying a new gfx card and i was wondering wot the difference is between a "pci" and a "pci-e" card can some1 pls help
2007-10-28 10:23:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
PCI is the very old way of how Gfx cards fix into your motherboard.
Everything is on PCi-E now, its much faster and stable.
2007-10-28 10:27:29 · answer #1 · answered by The_Figlet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PCI is now an old standard dating back to the early 90's and no longer fits our needs in terms of speed and performance. Then came AGP which was double the speed and performance of pci which also is in a similar position as PCI now, and chipset manufacturers are killing AGP motherboard support in favor of the much faster PCI Express interface, pci-e is the big boy in the block at the moment for speed and performace, but depending on the motherboard they have older versions of pci-e that are slower then recently releases one's.
Plus if you have an older pci motherboard and you purchase a pci-e card it will not fit nor work, you will need to buy a newer motherboard, and with that motherboard different ram and a newer cpu
2007-10-28 10:38:03 · answer #2 · answered by Phill.A. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont be confused.
although PCI and PCI-E sound similar.
They are totally differnt architectures Your pc can only take one or the other.
I suggest you find out what kind of graphics port your computer uses and go on that information.
Your computer will either support PCI-E Graphics card or a AGP Card. Although there is support for PCI But leave that out you dont want a PCI Card there to slow
2007-10-28 10:33:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are totally different, just so they happen to come from the same standard body so they got similar name. You should get either AGP/PCI-E whichever is actually available to you on your motherboard.
2007-10-28 10:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by Andy T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋