Looking for a Graphics Card

[Captain Tagon]

And where do you check that?

 

[KenM]

I thought it would be under system info, its not. You might be able to chck the computer makers site if you bought the computer. What kind of graphic card you have? A 64 MB gforce 4? Sounds like you have AGP.

 

[Captain Tagon]

It is a Dell I got like three years ago.

And I have an NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 with 64 mb RAM.

 

[Jarrod]

Easiest way would be to open the machine. Big circuit board in the middle -- motherboard. Along the back edge there will be a row of connectors that line up (ish, offset ~1/2 an inch) with openings along the back of the case (might be covered). There should also be expansion cards already plugged in.

Then find the video card. It's the expansion card your monitor is plugged into might not exist; could be on the motherboard.

If the connectors are a range of sizes but look to be the same rough shape, it's probably PCI Express. Some will be ~1inch long, the one your video card is in would be longer.

If all connectors are identical in color and spacing, including the video card, it's PCI.

If all but one connector are identical in color and spacing, while the odd man out is the same size but different color and inset a bit, it's AGP.

If you can take a piccy and post it we can very easily let you know.

 

[KenM]

That was my old card. I know its not PCI express because PCI express is too new.

 

[Rackhir]

It is a Dell I got like three years ago.

And I have an NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 with 64 mb RAM.

You have an AGP slot. PCIe didn't exist 3 years ago.

 

[Captain Tagon]

Cool, that nVidia that was linked earlier is AGP.

 

[KenM]

He could have a normal PCI slot. That would be bad if he did though.

 

[Rackhir]

He could have a normal PCI slot. That would be bad if he did though.

No. PCI slots haven't been used for the PRIMARY graphics card slot in more than 5 years and his video card was of a type never produced until well after AGP had taken over and it was only ever available in AGP.

 

[KenM]

so make sure your new card is AGP, not PCIe