PCI & PCI Express

[hodgey]

can anyone tell do these 2 cards go into a normal pci slot on motherboard or do you have to have special pci express slots on motherboard to use the pci express cards ?

thanks:)

 

[megamaced]

PCI and PCI-E are completey different. They are incompatible with each other

 

[zeus]

http://www.ackadia.com/computer/images/pci_express_proto_mobo.jpg

 

[Big B]

Ya missed the sticky about it. ;)

 

[hodgey]

my PC is 4 years old so what slots would you think i would have to play with on my board ?

 

[megamaced]

Well open up your computer and find out! :D

If you've got a brown slot then you've got AGP. Otherwise you are stuck with plain old PCI

 

[hodgey]

the graphics card i have in at moment is a radeon 9000 atlantis pro, do you know what slot that would use, sorry not very computer literate :)

 

[Big B]

Most likely AGP. PCI Express has only shown up in motherboards since about last year. I could be wrong, but I do believe that the Radeon 9000's only came out in AGP format.