compatibility AGP/PCI/PCI-E

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monj

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i would like to know if i can buy a motherboard that has an AGP, PCI and PCI-E slots, and that can handle a q6600 CPU?
thanks in advance

monj
 
There ar only 2 motherboards that I know of that still support AGP but PCI-E was designed as replacement for the earlier AGP slots so you never find AGP on a PCI-E motherboard. You would have to pick between one or the other.
 
Generally you don't need AGP and PCI-E together. What video card do you have or are thinking of using?

AGP = older tech for video cards.
PCI-E = newer tech for video cards.

Most all boards have PCI, so that shouldn't be a problem.
 
Sure there is some, ASRock makes them. But the PCIe slot only runs with 4 lanes/X4 so if you had a upper end PCIe video card it would probably hinder it performance. But I would not really suggest one.
 
Those boards that StrangleHold suggested do work, and are designed for people who want to slowly migrate from DDR/AGP to a DDR2/PCI-E system.
 
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