Question about putting agp in pc slot

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bigl2007

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ok in my computer i have a Geforce 6800 XT and i got a old graphics card the one that i used to used and i have heard something about you can take an agp card and put it in pci slot and it will work and you can use it the card that i want to put in pci slot is agp geforce mx 4000

and i was wondering if if i did that and kept my agp 6800 geforce would i be able to dual the cards and use them both at same time and dual them? to have more video ram cuz my geforce 6800 XT keeps reminding me about it can do sli rendering whatever that is is it possible to do that on my computer eventhough i dont have any pci express slots



Intel Celeron D 3.06ghz
768 mb ram
and XFX Geforce 6800 XT
 
and dont think you can use a AGP in a PCI, i was thinking about this about 20 mins. ago, i was gonna stick 1 in my GX110, but i was told it wont work.
 
An AGP card is specially design for the AGP port and cannot be used on a pci slot. The early and still some later model cards following the ISA models were pci then onto AGP. Some models may still be available. There were custom setups at one point for using two pci type cards prior to the introduction of PCI-Express now seeing SLI and Crossfire.
 
It's not the software for the card there. You are seeing this when gaming? That type of message would only be seen on newer games not some old dos or 9X-ME type except in cases where twin pci slot card were networked in a custom gaming case. The newer board are geared for this making life easier to increase performance there. In the old days you jury rigged cards to do the same.
 
On the new Forceware drivers, the control panel will bug you about adding a second card to "Increase your performance" whether or not you have an SLI capable motherboard. If you have an AGP card, don't even worry about SLI. (or running two AGP cards at once)
 
That seems to be an item directly related to NVidia model cards there as far as the prompting goes. Usually when you are seeing a prompt continue to come up onscreen there is a check box for "Don't Display This Message Again" or something similar where you simply check that off to avoid a constant prompt by it. With ATI's Crossfire being newer then SLI I don't get the prompt here with a slightly older Radeon model card. But you would have to ask someone running one of the X1800 or X1900 series Radeon cards if they see one prompt for Crossfire.
 
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