Choosing a Graphics Card

[otis606 0]

I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Process 5000+ 2.60 GHz... I need to know if it has an AGP, PCI, or PCI-Express graphics card slot. thanks.

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to find that out you will have to look at what motherboard you have, its impossible to tell from cpu specs.

[spuddy0108 185]

We need to know your motherboard for that. Use cpu-z to find out

[otis606 0]

Do you know how? If there is a way other then digging in my PC motherboard... I'd rather do that.

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yeah you can use cpu-z

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html#directiontouse

Under the Mainboard tab it should list what motherboard you have.

[[email protected] 29]

Just go for a PCI-E basically, the processor you have... came out in 06... around that time.

It's safe to say, your motherboard has a PCI-E slot... If not, buy a new computer... Like really : )

AGP is pretty much dead or dying..

PCI is still there... For some things... I guess... not on the most modern motherboards but.

[otis606 0]

Thank you so much. :D

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if you do choose a new graphics card, make sure that your psu can handle what the new card draws. If not you may be in trouble when it arrives

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Yeah, the PSU.

I run a nVidia GTX 680, it says that I should have atleast 550Watts in the system.

The newer cards are less hungry for power, than ever.... So 750-850Watts is plenty for 1 GPU system.

[jaynich 12]

Your best option is to open up your rig and check out your slot options, more often than not you'll see labels for each one. just look for PCI-E

[tomany 7]

I'd get a new motherboard and new CPU before a GPU... but if it is a 5000+, the chances are that that CPU is running on a motherboard that takes PCI-express 2.0