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trueflipmode

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Hi I have the hp pavillion a1106n and it has a motherboard that has 1 PCI slot, not PCI - E or AGP, just plain old PCI. I recently purchased a game called Vanguard and I thought my radeon 9250 met the minimum requirements, but because its shading isn't good enough it fails. So I have two questions:

1. Can I swap out the motherboard and purchase a new one that has PCI- E?

2. I have an old computer with AGP card slot on the mother board, can I steal that and put it in this one?
 
Yes, but you will likely have to reinstall windows (reformat your hard drive) to be able to run with the new hardware. It would be more reasonable to get a better vid card.
 
According to the specifications on that model it should have two. http://www.hp.ca/products/static/pavilion-desktops/a1106n/a1106n.pdf

The information there doesn't show what make and model board is installed. However that appears to be a standard atx case. HP will easily have new boards that will go in. As far as the old board you would be better off going with a new board with PCI-E would see the performance increase for the price.

There you will going with a new cpu and probably memory and be limited by whatever supply is in that model. That's the other hidden cost instead of going with a custom case. What make and model is the older board???
 
Looking at the HP case there you would most likely be better off with a micro-atx not ful sized board due the lack of height seen on a standard mid-tower case. Gigabyte has had some great looking micro boards that would make the one at link there crawl into a corner somewhere. Due to only seeing two not three or four 5 1/4" drive bays I spotted an Asus board that should go in without problems. You can look it over at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131072

The reason you only have onboard and no AGP or PCI-E slots is due to the board already in the case being a micro not full sized atx board. Don't forget that you are also looking at going from an older Intel board to a new AMD AM2 model which will require a new cou as well as newer faster memory. You might as well look at a new case and even heftier power supply for a good build.
 
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