IBM P4 motherboard AND Graphic cards?

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gudkov

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Hi, I have an IBM P4 mother board (http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/cpu/… ) with 3 PCI slots and 1 AGP connector slot

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I also have a 23" Acer HDMI widescreen monitor (http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/ace…
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I would like to purchase a new graphic card for my computer to improve the quality of the graphics with my new monitor.

I currently have the NVidia GeForce FX5200 8X 128 MB DDR TV/DVI graphic card (http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00gBdTZHhMnQum/Graphic-Card-NVIDIA-Geforce-FX5200-16P.jpg)
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I have made some research and i have found lots of different Video cards:
PCI Express 2.0
PCI Express
AGP
PCI
SLI

I would like to figure out which graphic card type is compatible with both my motherboard and monitor.

Please and Thank you,
Oleg
 
Your current motherboard can only use an AGP graphics card. The best card you can get for the old AGP slot is a Radeon HD 4670. Or, if you want to stick with nVidia, you could get the 7300GT. The Radeon is much more powerful though.
 
First of all, SLI isn't a type of video card slot, it's a type of dual-card technology, but I'm not going into that right now. Anyways, it seems like you can use either an AGP graphics card or a PCI graphics card. There are many different options. First, there are some questions I must ask:
1. How much wattage can your PSU supply?
2. What will you be doing with this video card?

Also, your motherboard pic link is broken.
 
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