What Kind of Card Do I Get?? AGP or PCI?

[ArtisticDesirez]

I am confused I am planning on getting a new video card for my Sony vaio computer. The video card I have now is HORRIBLE Its a SiS 650! I want to be able to play games like Sims 2 and Roller Coaster Tycoon and I can't on this crappy video card. So before I went and bought one I was wondering what kind of slot do I have?

® Pentium® 4 Processor 2.40B††† GHz†
• 512MB PC-2100 DDR (expandable to 1.5GB)
• 533MHz Front Side Bus
• 80GB†† Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive
• CD-RW Drive - Create your own CDs!
• DVD-ROM Drive
• Music, Movies, and Photo Software:
• PictureGear StudioTM
• DVgate
• MovieShaker™
• SonicStage™ for VAIO® PC
• Memory Stick® Media Slot
• Front and Rear Accessible i.LINK (IEEE 1394)
Interfaces and USB 2.0 Connections1
• High-Speed Internet Ready with
10 Base-T/100Base-TX Fast Ethernet
MODEL
PCV-RX850
PROCESSOR
Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 2.40B††† GHz†
CACHE MEMORY
512KB Integrated On-Die Level 2
FRONT SIDE BUS SPEED
533MHz
STANDARD RAM
512MB PC-2100 DDR (expandable to 1.5GB)
HARD DRIVE
80GB†† Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive
CD-RW DRIVE
CD-RW (32X max. write / 12X max. rewrite / 40X
max. read)
DVD-ROM DRIVE
16X max. DVD-ROM Read / 40X max. CD-ROM
Read
VIDEO & GRAPHICSSIS651 Integrated Graphics with Real256TM
2D/3D Graphics Accelerator
32MB Shared Graphics Memory (64MB Max.)

 

[hpi]

Im not sure because you don't have a video card.

You have integrated graphics card which means the "video card" is built into the mobo if im not mistaken.

 

[StrangleHold]

Its got 1 AGP X4 slot and 3 PCI slots

 

[K3rupt]

You need a AGP Graphics Card.

Im not sure because you don't have a video card.

You have integrated graphics card which means the "video card" is built into the mobo if im not mistaken.

Yes, It has Integrated graphics, And Yes you are right.

Just to make sure, can you find me the exact model of your MotherBoard.

 

[[trs]ALUMINUM]

I would guess either a pci or agp card. The motherboards sounds a little out dated.

 

[Geoff]

Going from the posts above, you can use either a PCI or AGP video card (not PCI-E!!). I would highly recommend going with an AGP card, because they are cheaper and you have alot more choices to choose from.