What does this mean exactly? Radeon 9200SE Family--PCI or AGP?

[Bobsama]

Pretty much, I had a friend of mine run GPU-Z to determine the correct type of graphics card for them to buy. The results screenshot is below.

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x129/Makmacki/o.png

So that is an AGP card, correct?

[Polaris573]

Just open the PC and look at the card. I think it's on a PCI slot though. Of course just because he has a PCI video card right now, does not mean his motherboard does not have an AGP slot.

[Bobsama]

Thanks... I think. The problem is that it's a friend that lives a distance away and they're not particularly tech savvy. Anyways--I'll just stick to CPU-Z as there's plenty of info on the motherboards. I looked over Asus's site and it appeared that they didn't make any PCI graphics cards, only AGP and PCI Express.

[Mister Weasel]

That his system is running the AGP card in PCI mode because the proper GART for the mobo isn't loaded. This would make a sucky card (no offense) even worse, since it would be running at the equivalent of .5X AGP.

Basically, AGP *is* PCI, just with some extensions, faster, and physically a different slot... so if you plug an AGP card into an AGP motherboard, but the OS doesn't have the right drivers for it it'll treat it software-wise and performance-wise as if it were PCI.

[W1zzard]

That his system is running the AGP card in PCI mode because the proper GART for the mobo isn't loaded. This would make a sucky card (no offense) even worse, since it would be running at the equivalent of .5X AGP.

Basically, AGP *is* PCI, just with some extensions, faster, and physically a different slot... so if you plug an AGP card into an AGP motherboard, but the OS doesn't have the right drivers for it it'll treat it software-wise and performance-wise as if it were PCI.

exactly

[Odin Eidolon]

i'm sure it is a agp card. i had it on my mum's pc two years ago and it was agp@8x.

[stickedy]

I guess the AGP GART is not installed correctly.What chipset does this computer have?