Video card fuss

[Paladin-01]

Okay, my parents got me a new barebones for Christmas, and its allright, cept it doesn't have an AGP slot for my video card. Or any slots at all for expansions aside from PCI... That bothers me, since I vaguely remember talk about newer video cards requiring a new slot. Clarification/suggestion?

[Pyrion]

If it's "new," does it have PCI-express slots instead of AGP?

[Paladin-01]

I.... do not know how to tell. :/

[Smoke]

This should help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PCIExpress.jpg

Bottom one's a classic PCI slot, the others are various flavors of PCI-Express.

[Paladin-01]

Then no, I have regular PCI :(

[The Coop]

Then no, I have regular PCI :(

... ouch.

[Daniel Rydell]

And this is new? I'd say someone ripped your 'rents off.

[Paladin-01]

New to me. :P Its still got twice the proccessing power of my old one. So I'm guessing PCI video cards are teh suck?

[Pyrion]

New to me. :P Its still got twice the proccessing power of my old one. So I'm guessing PCI video cards are teh suck?

Have been for the while. I mean the best you could get yourself is a GeForce 6200, low-end budget graphics there.

Now the system currently has onboard video, right? Dare I ask what chipset?

[Paladin-01]

...I can't seem to find it. System Information is showing a big ol' blank under Video Components.