cubman87

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Hi I need some help picking a graphic card for my mother board the board is a asus p4p 800-mx pentium 4 processor intell 865gv chip set no agp slot so I have to go with a pci graphics card. All I have right now is a intell extreme 2 graphics card intergrated on the board sucks I know any help is appreciated thanks.

ElLocoTaco

Most probably too late, but I'll post.

mmh...first let me tell you that I'm wondering how that works. You write you have an Asus P4P800 board? So its a 478Socket. As far as I know they all have AGP 8x.
BUT I'm from Europe and MX is not existing here.

So lets come to the important part:
You write "PCI". But is it really PCI or maybe PCI-EXPRESS.

Because if its PCI your board is more for working than for playing.
I'd dare to say, then you should invest in a new board, like ASUS P4P800 DE. Its the 478Socket which is not longer produced, so cheap to get AND it can carry 3.2 Prozessors from Intel.
Generally, its still not necessary to upgrade systems to PCI EXPRESS.
So take such a board and a good old AGP 8x Graphiccard like an ATI RADEON. They are best performing with this boards and just by the way is AGP still the bottom of game-programming, not PCI.

But b4 I'll write to much I stop, cuz you will already have bought one.

cubman87

thanks for the tip ElLoco Taco I looked through the motherboard booklet and it says nothing about pci-express so I am assuming they are just regular pci slots. my older pc has a agp slot I guess I got stuck with a lemon does anyone else have any advice on a good pci video card for this board ?

wolf68k

What is the make and model of the mobo?

DaDude85

I think he said it was a p4800 mx .
Any way, really it should have an AGP slot because the P4 MX series of mobos all have agp's. It should be brown and a bit out more than the pci ones. After that you really need to know what your budget is. You could go cheap and begginer and get an ATi Radeon 9250 about 50 buks aus, or you could go full out pro and score yourself a nice nVidia GeForce4 7800gt your choice.

cubman87

[QUOTE=DaDude85]I think he said it was a p4800 mx .
Any way, really it should have an AGP slot because the P4 MX series of mobos all have agp's. It should be brown and a bit out more than the pci ones. After that you really need to know what your budget is. You could go cheap and begginer and get an ATi Radeon 9250 about 50 buks aus, or you could go full out pro and score yourself a nice nVidia GeForce4 7800gt your choice.[/QUote}
The funny thing is the motherboard handbook says it has a agp slot but when I opened up the case to look for the slot it wasn't there at all it should have been right above the first pci slot all I really want to know is what pci video card is compatibal with this board either an ati card or the nvidia geforce series of cards?