goranpaa
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right, i'm very inclined to buy the asus, if I were to buy that now, is it a good choice?
also when shopping around for cards, what are some important features to look out for?
I think so. Asus have always been good at making videocards....And motherboards for that matter.
Without getting too technical, the important features that are easy to find out, are first of all the cooling system. A card coming with a big cooler / fan or fans, will tell that it will be quiet even under longer periods at load, and have a good cooling ability. Stay away from any card that have the tiny Nvidia or AMD / Radeon reference cooler and fan.
Like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130468
As much GDDR memory as possible and preferably a 256 megabit memory bus. Cards that have a 128 megabit bus will be slightly bottlenecked memory vise. Now, you will have to have in mind that 90 % of the videocards some years old came with that kind of memory bus. It whas only the very expensive, high end ones at that time that had larger mermory buses.
also how come the asus would be preferable? it has the memory type DDR3 whereas the Gainward has GDDR3, I thought this was better? excuse my ignorance ;-)
As said, it have a good cooling system, Asus are a reknown brand. The "DDR 3" are a typo though. All videocards comes with GDDR memory = Graphics memory.
Looking at the provided photos, I belive that the owner takes good care of his hardware as he have the original box, and even the plastic bag for the adapter. Anyway, that is a good indication.
Likely, this card have been lying around unused in it's box for a very long time since he upgraded. And now he have decided to sell it.
As for your second question:
Motherboards only comes with one kind of videocard socket. You can't fit the old kind of AGP videocard into a PCI e card slot and vise versa.
The only other kind of a video card that can be fitted into a motherboard with a PCI e slot. Is a PCI videocard. But then it will have to go into a normal PCI card slot on the mobo. This kind of card is very rare today. But you could find a used one now and then. Or if any shop have one lying around collecting dust somewhere? The only reason that the PCI slot videocards where made, whas for the very old motherboards that lacked any kind of a normal AGP graphics slot at that time. And this card only had any usefulness at all in a workstation / office Pc really.
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