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Rizzo:
ZOMBIE THREADDDD WOAAAARGH.

How do I tell if my motherboard has PCIe or AGP?
How do I find out what sort of motherboar I have short of ripping open the case?

My graphics card appears to be plugged into a slot that's slightly longer than the PCI slots below it but there is only one slot where the graphics card is.
The reason I ask is I've read that most PCIe motherboards have more than one PCIe slot on them (SLI etc etc). I've discovered that I can upgrade my card for cheap so I'm just trying to workout which kind I need.
I _think_ it's PCIe but advise would be good.

EDIT:
Looking in the control panel under System>Device Manager>Display Adapters>my graphics card.
It has the following text for it's location;
Location: PCI Slot 0 (PCI bus 2, device 0, function 0)
That means it's PCIe right?

Catfish_Man:

--- Quote from: Rizzo ---ZOMBIE THREADDDD WOAAAARGH.
Location: PCI Slot 0 (PCI bus 2, device 0, function 0)
That means it's PCIe right?
--- End quote ---


How old is your computer? It could be a PCI card rather than PCI-E or AGP.

moley:
what type of card do you have? if Nvidia, I know this should show you, if not it still probably should.

RMB on desktop > properties > settings > advanced

at the top of this window I have a tab for my nvidia card, you should have something similar, in the information it comes up with look for an item called 'Bus'

mine looks like this :

Rizzo:
Hurrah! PCIe. Thanks heaps guys.

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