Old Computer, No Money, Old story

[manxy1]

Hi, You've probably been in a situation probably similar to mine and I therefore need your help if you can.
I would like to play the pc Battlefield 2 game, but my old graphics card, NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 is not capable of running the game. I have an AMD AthlonXP 2000+ 1.67GHz, 512 MB of RAM and if I knew where to locate the rest of the information, I'd tell you.
Someone said that I need an AGP graphics card, but why, I don't know. If I do require one, I could afford about £150 and again, a friend mentioned a GeForce XFX 6800 GS 485 MHz core and 1100 MHz memory.
Suggestions would be appreciated, or if you have a spare one, that would be highly appreciated. Thanks for your time. Manxy

[litlewiki]

check if ur motherboard has an agp slot first before buying one.is ur current/old graphics card an addon card(pci) or an onboard one?

[Crash893]

agp had a faster bandwith than pci

[manxy1]

Unfortunately, I'm not sure what I'm looking at, but I do know where the hammer is in case of emergencies. I managed to eventually find the Device Manager and located my NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4400 on it and says for location: PCI bus1, device 0, function 0.
On the details part, it says PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV..........and a whole load of other numbers and letters. Does this help?
Using Device Manager again, it says I have an ACPI Uniprocessor PC,
IDE ATA/ATAPI,
CNet FAST 200WL PCI Wake On LAN Fast Ethernet Adapter,
my AMD Athlon XP 2000+ is located on Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System

Looking at the above and without taking the computer apart, does anyone think that the graphics card could be a PCI one and not an AGP one. or is there somewhere else on the computer that can give you the info required to assist you?

Manxy

[Al42]

Look at where the monitor cable connects. Look at where that board plugs into the motherboard. Is that socket the same color and size as the ones adjacent to it? (Probably PCI.) Different? (Probably AGP.) No card, just a plate with a jack and cable going to the motherboard? Look to your motherboard documentation.

[thegreatone]

This is a motherboard..


The easiest way of telling if you have a spare AGP port is really just to take on side off your case and to peer inside. In this motherboard the AGP port is the pinky/red one highest up out of the 6 expansion ports.
The other 5 expansion ports (in this case they are white, with one orange one) are PCI which your current graphics card will be plugged into.

Look for an AGP Port, which are usually brown, and ALWAYS above the PCI slots.

[grilkip]

Why don't you run the free tool cpu-z for us, go to the 'Mainboard' tab and read in the Graphic interface box what version you have (PCI-E/AGP) and the maximum supported link width.

Also if you get a really powerful card, there is a chance you will outgrow your current (stock?) psu.