Hey people

Quick hardware questions...

I need final conformation on whether this graphics card is AGP or PCIE...



AND

Anyone tell me the name of this?



I need another of the bottom one ^^

Looks like PCI-E to me.

And the bottom thing is a Phono to 3.5mm stereo jack.

EDIT:

Definitely PCI-E

Comparison;


(PCIE on bottom)

ok... so DHR who fixed your computer, cos their "You cant get motherboards that fit that" story has so much bullshit in there, you could run the world dry of the stuff

This is the slot it came out of (The Brown One)



And cheers Skillers for the Phono thing

Umm no, that card does not fit into that slot.

the brown is agp ( brown is the standardised color and its set back in the correct way) though the pic and the card shouldnt match up it shouldnt even fit

That image ISNT of my com btw... thats just what the port looked like...

It was def a brown port... and it was set AWAY from the edge of all the other baige slots, they didnt line up...

Brown ones are usually AGP. PEG slots are usually Black or Blue.

Yes that part is understood. Look at the top card Aaron, that def looks PEG to me. What makes no sense however is why it doesnt fit in anything anymore. Sorry, has PEG like died in the last 2 hours or something or more likely, is DHR getting some old arcahic POS that means hes got a free downgrade.

PCIE slots are set back aswell, but not as much (about half a cm rather than 2). You definitely have a PCIE card (as pictured in the first image), but your new board could be AGP (you gave me the code 82865 for integrated graphics, which I think is 865 mobo, a very old 478 mobo which usually had AGP, IIRC).

Umm... would this mean now that his ability to play well anything is seriously impared. (e.g. anything on source)

His laptop probably has better graphics than that onboard chip.

And I'm not joking.

So youre saying he downgraded us A LOT?! O.o

Errrr... Dad aint gonna like this much xD

Oh DHR, you thought I was joking about this earlier!?!?

Skillers, how bad integrated graphics, cos it fails PS/SM1.1

Depends what type of IGP it is. Intel X4500 has SM2.0 I think.

Its a 82865, which I read doesn't even have T&L

That means he can't play Deus Ex: Invisible War.

Which was released in 2003/04 time.

That sucks.

t and l?

Transform and Lighting. One of the most basic graphics features available to modern gaming.

oh right, could someone quickly explain why onboard gfx are so bad, is it like some dont have shading pixelators or summit etc. tyvm for teaching me

The same reason a HD4870 is better than a HD4850, simply a matter of processing power. Onboard don't tend to have a right lot of it. Also, in the case of this graphics, it lacks important features for hardware acceleration. There are various other factors such as sharing system RAM and having CPU overheads aswell.

In a nutshell, it shares load with the main pc, being spread too far is not good

oh right ok, so the specs are lower? is it cos like radeon 4850s say are aimed at performance in gaming and graphics whereas onboard arent (looking for value for money, say, instead)?

Yeah, that kinda thing, and it messes with the rest of the system aswell (isn't discrete).