im planning to buy a new video card....

[jeagz]

my mother board is Asus P5PE-VM
the specs of my motherboard
http://www0.dealtime.com/xPF-ASUS-P5PE-VM

and the video card that i wanted to buy is GeForce 9500GT 1GB
http://www.inno3d.com/products/graphic_card/gf9/9500gt_ddr2.htm

my question is is it compatible with my motherboard???

sorry for a noob question

 

[Redbull{wings}]

No, your motherboard has an agp x8 slot while the graphics card you want uses pcie.

If you would like to find a compatible card I would start here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...escription=&Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=

Sadly agp has gone out of use so your going to have a harder time finding a nice card.

 

[jeagz]

so i cant buy PCI x 3 supported??

 

[Bodaggit23]

so i cant buy PCI x 3 supported??

Why would you want to? You'd ideally want an 8x AGP card.

 

[Euklid]

The best AGP card available is Nvidia 7800 GS. It is probably near impossible to find. And if you do find it, it will be $100+.

Best value is to buy new motherboard $40, new CPU for that motherboard $60, and 2GB 800mhz ram $30. Then you can stick a 9500 GT in there. It will last you a while, and you will be able to upgrade CPU, RAM, and Graphics Card for a couple years to come.

 

[smoothjk]

The best AGP card available is Nvidia 7800 GS. It is probably near impossible to find. And if you do find it, it will be $100+.

Best value is to buy new motherboard $40, new CPU for that motherboard $60, and 2GB 800mhz ram $30. Then you can stick a 9500 GT in there. It will last you a while, and you will be able to upgrade CPU, RAM, and Graphics Card for a couple years to come.

I agree with upgrading the other stuff, too, but the 7800 GS is not the best AGP. The Radeon 3850 is (and if the rumored 4770 AGP comes out, that will be the best by far).

Of course, the problem with these cards is that it's probably bottlenecked by your CPU anyway...