Can someone please tell me what version my AGP slot is?

Question

I have a ASUS Kirin-p motherboard and my current graphics card is a geforce FX5500. I'm hoping to find out whether my agp slot is 4x or 8x and also whether it's 1.5v or 3.3v. Is there any way of me finding this out?

Can someone also tell me the whether it's 3.0, 2.0 etc... I bought my pc in mid-2003 and it's a Sony Vaio.

Answer 1

It's 3.3v supplied by the mobo standard for agp. It's an 4x8x agp buss and only a three year old mobo will have a 8x agp buss 4 pipes up and 4 pipes back and if the game allows it it will run 8x. Most all games at that time were 4x and if so the card ran at 2 pipes up and 2 back but about then the games began to change and allow 8x. now we have 16x and 32x is around the corner.
A PCIE with one card runs at 8x (1 buss)= 8 up 8 back

SLI And crossfire= (2 busses) have true 16x

It's full 3.0

>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131014

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

the 5500 agp game in both 4x/8x for a while, but if you buy an 8x card it will revert to 4x if its a 4x board, the only trouble comes from 2x boards.........my 5600 and 5700 were both 8x tho the 560 reverted to 4x for no apparent reason, Plain and simple, its time to upgrade, these days prices are dropping rapidly, stick with what you have until you can afford something reasonable, laptops for less than £400 and desktops for less than £300, take time and save a bit.............

Answer 3

that card is 4x/8x agp card. the power comes from the psu

Answer 4

I bet 'sisoft sandra' can. It gives details of all aspects of your machine, it's specifications and what's installed - it can run benchmarks too, and there is a free lite version on their site.

Answer 5

no