what's the difference between graphic cards of pci-e and agp? which one is for laptop use?
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AGP is built-in to the motherboard, While PCI and PCI-E (express) are cards you can add. It is pretty easy to add better graphics to a PC with lousy AGP graphics, just get a PCI card, or if the motherboard supports it, a PCI-E card with at least 128MB and you will see a big difference. I don't know much about adding more graphic capabilities to a laptop, I think that would be hard to do, you may have to get a better laptop. Maybe someone else who reads this can go into detail on that one.
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tough one...\n\nIt is not so much the graphic cards memory size that you need to consider. One card with a memory of 128 may be a lot better than a card with a memory of 256, it is all down to the cards architecture/speed/pipelines etc.\n\nout of the above listed, they are both very similar cards, perhaps the geforce just edging it.\n\ngo to www.ebuyer.co.uk and see what cards have been commonly bought within your price range, may give you a clearer idea on what to get, read the reviews people have left on the cards too.
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It's easy...for windows XP, go to start->control panel->Performance and Maintennance->System. Then go to the "Hardware" tab, click "Device Manager". Click view and choose "Devices by connection". Expand all the Icons (click on the small + in the small box beside the icons) till you see PCI bus. Expand more icons till you see your name of your grapics card. Then look back upwards by one stage and you will see something like "Intel(R) 82131XX/XX/XX Processor to AGP Controller". AGP Controller means AGP bus. PCI controller means PCI bus and so on.\n\nSimpler step is to look up the computer's manual for info regarding the graphics.
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Any card is fine, I suggest either an ATI card, or a Gforce card. You can find cards anywhere now from like $70-$300 that are good. \n\nFirst just check to find out if your computer has AGP, PCI, or PCI-E (PCI Express) ports. To do this look inside your computer. If you see little brown ports that means you have AGP, if you have PCI then you have just plain metal ports, and if you have PCI-E then you have gold ports. PCI-E is the best, followed by AGP, and finally, the oldest type, PCI. \n\nI suggest atleast getting a 256mb card, as that will work for most. If you are into extreme gaming then you might want to head up to the 512mbs. Also, be sure to check if your computer has dual capabilites. Which means you can have two graphic cards at once. \n\nFor more information be sure to check www.wikipedia.com ... Simply search PCI-E ports, AGP ports, or PCI ports, this will help to give you a picture of what your looking for, while looking in your computer. \n\nGood luck! if you need any more help feel free to email me.
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AGP's a little bit smaller and farther in from the edge than a PCI. Usually AGP's are closer to the CPU and come in different shapes (8x, 4x).
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While the laptop has a PCI express interface, it does *not* have a PCI express card slot -- the interface is on the motherboard directly between the graphics chip and the bus, there is no slot.  It follows the electrical and data rate specs of PCI Express, but not the desktop-PC *form factor* for the PCI Express card slot.\nSo, basically, you can't put a new graphics card in the laptop.  It's soldered on the motherboard.  No replacement is possible without buying a whole new motherboard.\nSorry.
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the best AGP graphics card is still the ATI X850XT for about $230. of course there are much better cards but these are all based on the PCI express x16 interface.\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=1069609639&Submit=ENE&Description=x850xt&Ntk=all
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No, laptops do not have AGP slots.\n\nAn extreme few have places where the video can be replaced, but its rare.\n\nIf you really want to do high-end video stuff like gaming or other video-intensive stuff, you really need a desktop.\n\nLaptops weren't designed for speed, they were designed for mobility.
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pci express. \n\nagp has been outdated by PCI-e.  \nAGP transfers information at about 2 gigabytes per second, which is still alot.  however, AGP uses the send info, get info, send, get.\n\nPCI-e transfers information at about 4 gigabytes per second.\ninstead of the old fashioned send and recieve, it both simultaneously sends and recieves, increasing the graphics superiority over AGP as it could stream better. also, it is more power efficient. \n\nAGP still has some good cards, such as the 7800 GS from nVidia, but when they measure up to PCI-e, they aren't that good.  but if you want something cheap, go with AGP.  But if you care about graphics and movie editing and all that, head out to PCI-e.  in a sense, both are cost efficient but pci-e gives you the extra bang as it has more features and has HD output on some cards.\n\nedit: master_of_computer: to say that AGP is the latest technology is not true.  it is NOT the latest technology as AGP has been around for 10 years now i think?  pci-e has been around for just 2.
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First you have to know what kind of card to get. If new computer is proably PCI-E, MOST computers have AGP interface. Some computers like Dell or Emachines don't have a graphics upgrade option and you have to use PCI.\nOpen the case and remove old card (if it had one) Plug in new card in the slot and hook up monitor. Reboot computer. If old graphics was integrated it must be disabled in the bios. \nInstall driver for new card and remove driver for old card.
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You can use any AGP card in your computer as long as you have a AGP slot.  Nvidia is the company that makes the GPU (graphics processing unit).  They sell GPU's to many card manufactures who make AGP and PCI-X video cards.  \nCheck your local computer store or online for a AGP card that fits your needs.
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Normal PCI are being phased out in favor of the superior PCI-Express/PCI-E.  AGP is actually becoming a rarity too, since PCI-E can achieve twice the speed of the best AGP cards.  Try ordering them online if you can't find them locally.
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your agp graphics card itself is, as you know, installed in the computer in the agp slot on the motherboard, and you plug your monitor into it -- so once the computer starts and windows detects it and either installs the drivers for you automatically or prompts you for the location of the drivers, the card is properly configured.\n\nby default, no matter where you installed the majority of the software bundled on the cd that came with the video card (d drive for example), the driver itself (the dll files) are installed in the windows&#92;system directory, which is usually on c.\n\nanyway, the point is, if you installed the drivers properly, then it doesn't matter where you install your games and so on, they will take advantage of the rendering power of the video card.
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The best AGP card would be a Nvidia 6600GT or 6800 video card.  6800 AGP cards are a bit rare but they do exist.  It's probably easier (and probably cheaper) to get a 6600GT, however.  These cards are a good choice because they support the latest graphic doo-hickeys like the latest shader version, DirectX 9, etc.\n\nPlease note that no ATI X-series (X300, X600, X700, X800, X1800) cards are available in AGP form except for one that exists for Apple Macs.  These cards are manufactured months to years in advance and ATI chose not to support AGP in favor of PCI-Express.
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depends on your mother board. The AGP is better if your motherboard is equipped with an AGP port; otherwise you'd have to go with PCI.
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Since it is an 8X AGP interface, you have many many models and prices to choose from. Nvidia just released a bunch of cards in AGP - which was in planned obselecence until they realized there was too many people with AGP boards.\nFor a little over $200 you could get something with the Nvidia 6800GS Series which is a good performance mid-priced card.\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143045
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I would look at the latest versions of the Nvidia or ATI graphics card range ie ATI Radeon 9800 or Nvidia 6800 or 7600 ( I dont think they do an AGP version of the 7800 or 7900 although I could be wrong ) Worth while checking out though. Look on www.tomshardware.com and www.firingsquad.com for reviews etc\n\nI hope this helps